GENRE: Action/Adventure
RATING: PG-13 for sexuality, violence & language
RUNTIME: 2 hours and 12 minutes
STARRING: James McAvoy (Atonement, Wanted)
Michael Fassbender (300, Inglourious Basterds)
DIRECTOR: Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Stardust)
WRITERS: Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz(Thor)
Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass)
PLOT: In this prequel, Charles and Erik recruit superhuman beings to help out during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
FIVE OBSERVATIONS:
1 James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are the heart and soul of this movie. Their chemistry and extraordinary acting propel everything about this film. It makes it all the more tragic to know what is to come in future films.
2 I haven’t read the comics so I don’t know how true they are or if the continuity rings true with the other X-Men movies but to be honest, I really don’t care. This was just plain entertaining, even if you knew nothing about the X-Men.
3 Kevin Bacon makes a great villain. He’s played bad guys before but this performance stuck out to me for some reason. Maybe it was his creepy mustache in his first scene.
4 While there are some great action sequences and explosions, there were a couple of special effects that bordered on cheesy. Beast running fast and Erik overturning the lab in Germany come to mind.
5 The parental guide states that there is “one memorable use of the F-word”. They could not be more correct. Funniest moment in the whole movie. It happens during the recruitment montage. It still makes me laugh.
RECOMMENDATION: Some nice Special FX for theatres
UPCOMING REVIEW: Super 8
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