In the early 1960s, Charles Xavier forms a group of people with wondrous genetic mutations that give them amazing powers. Among them is his closest friend, Erik Lensherr...
Hopefully if you are a serious X-Men fan, you have thrown classic canon to the wind by now with the X-Men films. That being said, X-Men: First Class is a rather good film easily on par with the first X-Men movie that hit theaters just over a decade ago. Expect some well-done special effects, but you can also plan to expect very little in terms of character depth from anybody in this film with the exception of our three main mutants.
Professor X (James McAvoy), Magneto (Michael Fassbender), and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) are the focus of the story here--at least, they are the only characters who we get to see any kind of growth from and get even a vague idea of what makes them tick. First Class is really the origin story for the two leading men, and don't be at all surprised when you see Fassbender powerfully commanding the screen more often than not--look to see him in more roles henceforth.
Long story short, if you can happily (or blissfully) ignore some of the standard X-Men canon, you are in for a real treat of a film with X-Men: First Class.
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