not first class, but pretty good

Rating: 7/10 (4 June 2011)

this is a prequel to xmen telling how Charles Xavier became professor x, how Erik became magneto, and how everything came to the way they were in xmen. it was OK. the story is that when Erik was a child during the holocaust, and a general (kevin bacon) who is also a mutant wants Erik to be with him and to use Erik to his advantage. Bacon's character says to control a metal coin and if he doesn't succeed he would shoot his mother. Erik did not succeed and his mother was shot right in front of him by Sebastian shaw (kevin bacon). however Charles is in a totally different situation. he is wealthy and taken care of. but at the same time Erik was a kid Charles was in house sleeping, and he heard a noise. he went downstairs and it was mystique pretending to be his mother. he knew that by reading her mind, and took her in, taking care of her. here we are 22 years later and Erik is looking for shaw. while Charles has just become a professor to discuss there are more mutants out in the world, and is recruited by the CIA to find shaw, because Shawn may start world war 3. Charles saves Erik and thats how there friendship begins. they recruit other mutants and what was really cool was that they went into a bar the two of them to recruit another mutant, and guess who it was. Logan aka wolverine. Hugh Jackman was there playing him. he was in it for maybe a minute., but once the crowd saw his face they clapped and laughed. the scene was Erik and Charles walking into a bar seeing Logan. Charles said how are you. and Logan said go f*** yourself, and that was his scene. everyone laughed. anyway Charles and Erik recruit a team, and while there finding more mutants. the field base where the few mutants are is attacked by shaw and his mutant team. so Charles finds a place to train mutants. which is the school for mutants for the other xmen movies. at the end Erik and Charles goes there separate ways as you might of guessed and Charles opens the school for mutants, while Erik goes to make a team of mutants to start the extinction of the human race. this movie was pretty good. a lot better than i thought it would be. it got off to a slow start and was a little to long, but other than that a great movie, with great action and a great cast. see it.