This movie was awesome and exceeded all of my expectations. I have seen all of the X-Men movies and truly felt that the first movie that was released in the series was the best. It was the introduction of Hugh Jackman to American audiences, what I also liked about the X-Men series was that it was not full of Hollywood heavy hitters. These are actors that are so popular that you don't see the character, you see the actor. The same is true with this movie, the movie is heavy with great actors and actresses, some you do meet for the first time. Their Hollywood persona does not interfere at all with the characters that they portray.
This movie is a prequel and it shows a young Professor X and Magneto, along with Mystique (who we find out grew up with Professor X). We also see the friendship between Professor X and Magneto that had been eluded to in the previous films. You meet several other mutants, pretty cool characters, including Sebastian Shaw who is played by Kevin Bacon (I didn't even know that he was in the movie). I truly enjoyed the film. The plot is based around the cold war between the United States and Russia and climaxes with the Cuban Missile Crisis. During this known and factual history, the world is first introduced to mutants. Mutants have existed for some time and most have kept to themselves believing that they were the only "freaks" that could possibly be. The biggest issue between them and a constant theme with all of the movies is to be accepted for who they are by the human race. This is an actual life lesson that far out reaches in reality for today's world.
The movie is full of action and the story line is great. I truly enjoyed this movie and recommend watching the movie... you could even have a popcorn night for this flick. It is pretty good.
I give it an 8 out of 10.
Next up is "The Social Network."
No comments:
Post a Comment