As good as X2

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2013)

After the disappointing two last X-Men movies (Last Stand and Origins: Wolverine) this one was a great surprise. It's a very good movie, I'm not going to say that it's excellent, there were a few things that I didn't like. But hell... I was smiling from ear to ear after the credits, I expected one more silly movie, and i got a very intelligent, funny, and with great performances movie. From the beginning it was very good, the Magneto's childhood and Xavier's were really interesting. Magneto's one put me back to the first X-Men movie, it brought me back so many memories. After that, I have to say that Michael Fassbender is the best of the movie, but he's not the only good thing, also James McAvoy was outstanding. There were a lot of good performances that made the movie very very enjoyable. the relationships between the characters were well placed and developed, as the one between Magneto and Xavier, between Mystique and Xavier, Mystique and Beast. The script was really good, nothing like the X-Men Origins: Wolverine that was awful. The movie is not perfect. It had its mistakes. But they are minutiae. Nothing that impede us to enjoy this great movie with great actors, and of course nice fx. You can almost cry with Xavier and Magneto in the scene where Professor X makes Erik remember his most happy/sad memory. You can identify yourself with the characters in a perfect way. They are very well constructed. This is one of those movies that makes you love it and remember it with affection.