X-Men: First Class

A film that has a fourth in its series isnt really a film that you'd expect to be amazing right? Well, this X-men movie was defiantly top notch with a solid story line and a hard hitting cast it gave you a clear enough look into the past of some of our favourite X-Mean characters.

To help us understand the development of the main characters we jump into their past, as seems to be a key theme with the X-men movies. Firstly its off to a concentration camp in Germany 1944 where a Erik Lensherr of about 10 or 11 is a person of interest to the slightly psychotic Dr Schmidt. He goes to extreme lengths to make Erik move a coin across a table in order to prove his theory of the young boy having abnormal abilities.

We flit to a less painful scene in a large Gothic Mansion where we come to see how a young and fearless Charles first becomes acquainted with the ever so mysterious femme fatale Mystique.

Its now 1962 and CIA agent Moira MacTaggert, is tracking a US Army Colonel, having followed him to a illustrious bar and having witnessed an unexplainable event with some pretty extraordinary looking people she has a lot of explaining to do with no proof. In order to find some proof and an explanation, she ends up tracking down Professor Xavior in England Oxford University where she manages to convince him to come to the CIA and explain his thesis and the possible existence of mutants, not knowing that he himself is one.

Things escalate quickly, as Agent MacTaggert and Charles join forces and happen to stumble upon a stubborn Erik, who has his own agenda that happens to interlink with their own. It gets a bit messy as Erik and Charles start recruiting other mutants to help their cause - Even though everyone has a different idea about the end game once they've got their hands on the tyrant Dr Schmidt.

McAvoy played a most convincing Proffessor Charles Xavior, almost putting legend Patrick Stewart to shame if i do say so myself. He delivers a character that is both charasmatic, charming and has swagger. Kevin Bacons Tyrant Dr Schmidt is anything but footloose and frenzy free as he plays an unforgiving foe whose only concern is a means to an end.

The film ends with us getting an idea of how Charles ends up needing that wheel chair we are all too familiar with and leaving us hoping for a speedy sequal that will be equally first class.