After the disappointing X-Men-Last Stand and Wolverine 20th Century Fox can breath a sigh of relief because X-Men First Class is a solid return to the franchise. This time its a prequel set in the 1960's and focuses on a young Charles Xavier (James McCavoy) and Erik Lehnserr (Michael Fassbender) who both grow to be known as Professor X and Magneto. Erik wants to avenge his mother by killing her murderer Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) while Charles is looking to bring peace between mutants and humans. Both decide to help the CIA stop world war 3 and get their common enemy. Kevin Bacon is great as the main villain of the piece and looks like he enjoyed playing the role as he makes it look effortless. To do this they recruit a team of young mutants and train them up. The team includes Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) Alex Summers (Lucas Till)
The film starts off at a slow pace which helps bring all the different story lines together before picking up the pace with some great action scenes including the CIA building assault and the big climatic fight off between Mutants, the American and Russian Army. People who go to see an X-Men film want big action set pieces and Matthew Vaughan gets these bang on the money. It would of been interesting to see how he would of handled X-Men Last Stand before getting kicked off the project by the studio.This is a great starting point for those of you who have yet to see previous X-men films and want to know the back story of how it all started. There's also a lot of in-jokes and cameos which will please die hard fans
X-Men First Class isn't the best comic book movie out (take a bow Dark Knight and Thor). It also doesn't re-ignite the franchise as much as other prequels like Christopher Nolan's Batman and JJ Abrams Star Trek. But still a good summer movie and hopefully the start of great things for the X-men series.
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