X-Men: First Class

Movie: X-Men: First Class

Genre: Action

Synopsis: This movie covers the origins of the X-Men.  A young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) helped the U.S. government to organize other people with special powers, including Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Frost (January Jones), Raven  (Jennifer Lawrence), and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) – who was actually a close friend of Xavier early on.

My two cents: I really loved this movie.  It was a bit of a surprise to see that X-Men who are bitter enemies of Xavier in earlier movies actually started out as allies of his.  It was also a lot of fun to see the X-Men inserted into an actual event of the 60’s: the Cuban missile crises.  Kevin Bacon was especially great as an arch-villain who makes Magneto look like a nice guy.   I hope that there are more of these “prequel” X-Men movies.

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