One of my favorite X-Men movies!

Rating: 9/10 (24 May 2016)

After the abysmal X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the middling X-Men: The Last Stand, this mutant superhero franchise was in need of a reboot to restore its dominance for 20th Century Fox. Along comes X-Men: First Class and in celebration of the closing of this new X-Men trilogy, I wanted to revisit the two movies that lead up to X-Men: Apocalypse with the story of Magneto and Professor Xavier.
The story begins with Magneto as a child Erik Lensherr as it did in the first X-Men film. Magneto exhibits his mutant talents of controlling metal and in this version, he is tortured by an evil mutant Sebastian Shaw played by Kevin Bacon. It is revealed that Shaw can harness energy, especially explosive energy, to make him nearly indestructible and very deadly. Magneto grows up to be played by Michael Fassbender and seek revenge against his tormentor.
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