Storyline
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
Directors
Cast
Tony Curran, Michael Fassbender, Caleb Landry Jones, James McAvoy, Rebecca Romijn, Brendan Fehr, Hugh Jackman, Ludger Pistor, Wilfried Hochholdinger, Edi Gathegi, James Remar, Demetri Goritsas, Corey Johnson, James Faulkner, Glenn Morshower, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, Nicholas Hoult, January Jones, Jason Flemyng, Lucas Till, Zoë Kravitz, Oliver Platt, Álex González, Matt Craven, Rade Serbedzija, Michael Ironside, Morgan Lily, Laurence Belcher, Beth Goddard, Bill Milner, Don Creech, Ray Wise, David Agranov, Neil Fingleton, Annabelle Wallis, Éva Magyar, Randall Batinkoff, Arthur Darbinyan, Georg Nikoloff
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Reviews
90
Variety
After undergoing some unfortunate mutations in recent years, a beleaguered Marvel movie property gets the smart, stylish prequel it deserves in X-Men: First Class.
80
Audacious, confident and fueled by youthful energy.
75
Orlando Sentinel
X-Men: First Class still sings the praises of Marvel Studios' marvelous quality control of comic book movies. It's good, clean summer movie fun where the money they spend is up on the screen - with actors and effects - so that we won't mind spending our money on it.
75
Perfectly fine summer folderol, epic enough on its own terms if not quite big enough to expand beyond its genre and matter to people who find it difficult to care about characters who spit gobs of flaming phlegm. I realize there are fewer and fewer of us, but we're a hardy band and stubborn.
75
Director Matthew Vaughn, who did last year's delightful "Kick-Ass," doesn't do witty this time around, but he does keep up a spiffing pace while making the action blaze.
