X-Men: First Class Movie Reviews

Sitting at a varsity bar has never been easy for a genius. With most of his prey either dimwitted or drunk, the temptation to break into routine -- to talk about his own condition while masking it with a clever wink, an in-joke meant purely to amuse himself -- is irresistible. It's hard not to second-guess someone when you are, shall we say, better informed. A younger Martin Luther King Jr, more aware than his peers, might well have faced the same urge

Most action films may boast of loads of action but go low on story and character growth. Here's where X-Men: First Class scores. The ka-boom stuff is all there, in heavy doses too, but it comes only when the characters have told their story and expounded their reasons to explode. What's more, the film may be a fictional superhero story but it beautifully blends history with superpower histrionics. So much so, you actually believe -- if only for a single, soppy moment

X-Men: First Class' is an intelligent, action-packed prequel that neatly ties into the events and the dynamics of the original movie trilogy. Most importantly, it provides the back-story for the legendary rivalry between Professor X and Magneto. According to the new movie their relationship dates all the way back to the early Sixties, when they fight on the same side against Kevin Bacon’s super-evil mutant Sebastian Shaw, who attempts to start off a nuclear war

After a close call with franchise death (diagnosis: anemia), the X-Men film series has bounced back to life with its fifth instalment, rescued with a straight injection of pop. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, X-Men: First Class reaches back to the early 1960s for an origin story of mutants, mad men and mods that takes some of its cues from James Bond and more than a few costumes from Austin Powers. Like Mad Men, this new X-Men indulges in period nostalgia

This 20th Century Fox release directed by Mathew Vaughn with story by Sheldon Turner and Bryan Singer, scripted by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman and Vaughn, charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Following the not-so-happening X Men Origins: Wolverine, this 60's set story, imagining the rise of Professor X, Magneto and their earliest mutant disciples, is drenched in cold war paranoia and served with a mythical dimension

X-Men: First Class is smart and sexy and thankfully, accessible even to the uninitiated. You don’t have to be an expert on the Marvel Comics’ mutant franchise to enjoy this origins story, set in the early 1960s. Actually, the film begins even earlier in a concentration camp, where Erik, a young boy with magnetic powers is separated from his parents. The evil Dr. Schmidt, played by Kevin Bacon, kills his mother and unleashes upon the world, a damaged superhero

X-Men: First Class review Business rating: 2.5/5 stars. What’s Good: The racy screenplay; the well-executed acti...