Now I was able to attend the Premiere of the latest X-MEN addition this past week and I was definitely impressed. "The First Class" definitely gave it audience what it needed and that was some "Understanding". What I mean by this is how is some of our favorite heroes and villains become the way they that we have seen them in movies since XMEN first began (outside of Wolverine, which I will still say that i am disappointed about...MOVING ON). We were left with a brief viewing of Magneto's beginning in X-MEN: The Last Stand in which we see him imprisoned in a Nazi camp as a young boy. Well "First Class" picks up where we left off in X2 and are able to get more familiar the origins of Magneto as well as Charles Xavier (Professor X), Raven (Mystique), and Beast.
We are introduced the what is known as the first class of human saving mutants, which would later divide into what is now known as the X-MEN and the Brotherhood of Mutants, and the very first version of Cerebro (the machine Xavier uses to locate mutants). We see a young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Eric Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) as they join forces to stop the Hellfire Club lead by Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) and Emma Frost (January Jones). This is where the X-MEN are rebooted and we find out where the relationship/ friendship of Professor X and Magneto turned into that of enemies and having different views on mutant relationships with the humans.
This film also gave additional insights on how the School for Mutants was started by Professor X, how Professor X ended up in the wheelchair, how Beast transformed from a regular man, and other important origins. This film is what we needed to bring a few gaps and answer questions from the previous series of X-Men films that we have seen.
I will give this film a definite 4 and 3/4 Reels and say that if you love the X-Men as a whole that this is a MUST SEE!!!
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