X-Men: First Class is a reboot of the X-men film series that fell into despair with 2009's Wolverine movie, here Kick Ass director Matthew Vaughn is tasked with bringing the series back on track with his exploration of both Charles Xavier played here by James McAvoy and Erik Lensherr aka Magneto played by Michael Fassbender.
A s good as Super 8 was, this I felt was the better of the two mainly because I found this movie involving as it was a great action adventure ride with great characters and most of all a good villain, see that makers of Thor they actually made their villain important to the plot not a total afterthought and Kevin Bacon plays it with great relish as do McAvoy and Fassbender, capturing the same chemistry that Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen had in the first two X-Men movies directed by Bryan Singer, who also acts as a producer on this film.
But that's not all folks, the film's storyline balances both the seriousness of the main relationship, the historical aspects regarding Russia, the back story to X-Men 1 and the fun of the 1960's into a seamless whole, but there are others such as Rose Byrne and January Jones that deserve a mention, Byrne in particular has a very convincing US accent that was almost impossible to pick faults with, one fault I do have was the lack of the X-Men theme from the 1990's, just once I wish I could've seen that theme in an X-Men movie as it's a great theme that deserves to be heard in a cinema.
All in all, an awesome thrill ride that's worth the wait, 4 and a half out of 5.
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