The best X-men yet!

Rating: 8/10 (10 December 2011)

"X-Men: First Class" is perhaps hands down one of the best X-Men films yet. Throughout the franchise and amidst all of the television series based on the famous team, we hear about how Professor Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr were partners and the best of friends. But the only images that we catch pertaining to that subject is when the friendship turned sour (even though they have remained close in a way despite their different views on the human race and mutant kind). That is, until now. Finally we see how it all began, and where the division started. Over-stuffed with action-packed fighting sequences and a few romantic moments, "X-Men: The First Class" delivers an outstanding performance to its millions and billions of fans worldwide.
Unfortunately, every good apple has a worm somewhere. The main problem that I find with the film (and perhaps one of the things keeping me from giving it a 9 or a 10 rating) is this; the time period. First of all, the setting of the movie is supposed to be in the mid or late 60s- during World War II. However, Alex Summers wouldn't have been born until the 70s or 80s. The age that he is in the movie would make him only about ten years younger than Xavier, thus placing Cyclops quite close to Professor X's age in present time. To me, it just seems that Marvel didn't have any other characters to add to the team, and randomly chose someone completely out of their lifespan to take up space. Perhaps they thought that no one would notice, but that wasn't a good idea.
My previous comment doesn't sour my attitude towards Marvel. I'm just saying that they could have just invented another teammate to take up space if they needed to (just like they did with the black guy with the fish gills that died). I still love Marvel, and the X-Men is my favorite team. Keep the movies coming!