X Men - First Class : Hollywood Movie Review | Story
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, Kevin Bacon
Direction: Matthew Vaughn
Genre: Action
Duration: 2 hours 22 minutes
Story : The film is a prequel to all the X-Men films and traces the beginning of the mutant world. It's 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis when America and Russia almost threw the world into a nuclear war. CIA agent, Moira (Rosie Byrne) hires telepathic Professor Charles Xavier's/Professor X (James McAvoy) and a bunch of fellow mutants to work as a special force and avert the crisis which has been precipitated by the evil Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon). The super army also includes Holocaust survivor Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Michael Fassbender) who seems to have his own motives for teaming up. He still hasn't forgotten his bitter childhood memories.... Movie Review : 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 -- it was these special people who flew the nuclear missiles back and forth the American and Russian ships to avert a nuclear disaster. Ah! The power of cinema.
The film opens in a riveting manner with a young Erik being forced to display his special metal-bending powers in a concentration camp in Poland. When he fails, he faces disastrous consequences which plague him all his life. But this tragedy also unleashes the full fury of his super powers. Cut to 1962, when a beleaguered President Kennedy struggles to avert a nuclear crisis. Enter, the colourful band of mutants which include the enigmatic, blue-skinned Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), a shape-shifter, a tempest-tosser, a fire-thrower, an adapter, a beast and several more. Of course, the team is headed by the seniors, Professor Xavier's and Erik who begin as the best of friends but end up as arch rivals, as the series progress.
Great action, riveting drama, real dilemmas and interesting characters, X-Men: First Class is fun all the way.
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