The Best X-Men Film Yet

Rating: 8/10 (5 October 2011)

I have to admit that I was a little worried about X-Men First Class; after all it was prequel and a fresh new start to the series. I'm glad to say that I was worried for nothing, because X-Men First Class is easily the best X-Men film to date. X-Men First Class is mainly about how Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr became enemies. This is about how the X-Men first started, now I have to admit I have never read the comics, so I wouldn't the history of X-Men that good.
I'll start off with the acting of X-Men First Class; everyone does a good job with whatever role they have, even if it's only a small brief role. But I have to say the best two actors in this film are James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. James McAvoy does great as Charles Xavier and in some ways reminds me of a younger version of Patrick Stewart, and even surpasses him as Charles Xavier. James McAvoy stands out in this film; he surpasses his co-stars in every possible way including Michael Fassbender. Now while I did enjoy McAvoy's performance better than Fassbender's I have to admit that Fassbender is the next best actor in the film, he really makes you believe in the character of Erik Lehnsherr, he makes you feel for his character, which is a first in an X-Men film. Fassbender gives a great performance, that's almost as good as McAvoy's.
Now I'm going to talk about the film itself, the plot is quite simple like I said previous it's mainly about Charles and Erik, with the backstory of how the X-Men first started. Now in this movie we have a new enemy that we have not seen before, his name is Sebastian Shaw, and he's played by the great Kevin Bacon. I have to say Kevin Bacon really pulls off this role, in such a great way it was like he was born to play Sebastian. Now onto the character himself, I'm not going to lie, I liked the character of Shaw. I just found him to be such a great character that you actually cared for, yes he's the villain of the film, and I know we supposed to hate him. But I couldn't help but to like his character, maybe that was because of Kevin Bacon's performance as Shaw, who knows. Now Shaw does get help of course from his group, which by the way are called The Hellfire Club. For me everyone else in that group, seemed like the typical villains, yeah sure they were cool but in the long run they were nothing but typical villains whose only purpose, was to assist Shaw. That is my only knock on the film, is that the villains were not given much to work with other then to stand there, and kill for the hell of it. As far as the rest of the story goes, I have to say that they did a great job in showing how the X-Men First started, and showing how Charles and Erik became enemies.