X-Men: First Class (2011)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 132m
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence
Synopsis:
In 1962, the young Charles Xavier heads up a United States covert programme to train other mutants with the aim of defeating one of their kind, a mutant supremacist who is nudging the Soviet Union towards nuclear confrontation in Cuba.
Review:
And so we go back to see how Xavier and Lehnsherr were originally allied and then came to see things differently. It's all based on the age-old story paradigm: accommodation based on secure upbringing, good; hate and revenge based on dysfunctional upbringing, bad. Vaughn - needs must - opts for another concentration camp prologue, calling for a somewhat preposterous Kevin Bacon Nazi, and the light-weight McAvoy, by now ubiquitous in international productions, is a poor prototype for Patrick Stewart. But Fassbender, equally buoyed up by home grown successes, is a far happier choice, and the Bay of Pigs climax, albeit a long time coming, makes for a felicitous backdrop to the customary ubermensch standoffs.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 132m
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence
Synopsis:
In 1962, the young Charles Xavier heads up a United States covert programme to train other mutants with the aim of defeating one of their kind, a mutant supremacist who is nudging the Soviet Union towards nuclear confrontation in Cuba.
Review:
And so we go back to see how Xavier and Lehnsherr were originally allied and then came to see things differently. It's all based on the age-old story paradigm: accommodation based on secure upbringing, good; hate and revenge based on dysfunctional upbringing, bad. Vaughn - needs must - opts for another concentration camp prologue, calling for a somewhat preposterous Kevin Bacon Nazi, and the light-weight McAvoy, by now ubiquitous in international productions, is a poor prototype for Patrick Stewart. But Fassbender, equally buoyed up by home grown successes, is a far happier choice, and the Bay of Pigs climax, albeit a long time coming, makes for a felicitous backdrop to the customary ubermensch standoffs.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 132m
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence
Synopsis:
In 1962, the young Charles Xavier heads up a United States covert programme to train other mutants with the aim of defeating one of their kind, a mutant supremacist who is nudging the Soviet Union towards nuclear confrontation in Cuba.
Review:
And so we go back to see how Xavier and Lehnsherr were originally allied and then came to see things differently. It's all based on the age-old story paradigm: accommodation based on secure upbringing, good; hate and revenge based on dysfunctional upbringing, bad. Vaughn - needs must - opts for another concentration camp prologue, calling for a somewhat preposterous Kevin Bacon Nazi, and the light-weight McAvoy, by now ubiquitous in international productions, is a poor prototype for Patrick Stewart. But Fassbender, equally buoyed up by home grown successes, is a far happier choice, and the Bay of Pigs climax, albeit a long time coming, makes for a felicitous backdrop to the customary ubermensch standoffs.