User blog:Captain alex/My review of X-Men: First Class!

Hello readers! I've been on hiatus (again) and now, I shall review the movie which everyone seems to enjoy: X-Men First Class. I saw this movie the day it came out, and when I sat down in the theater, I was expecting to have my mind blown. When I stepped out of the theater, not only was my mind blown, I'm sure that everyone else's mind in the theater was blown too. My basic overview of the movie: PURE AWESOMENESS. The main characters of this movie are Charles Xavier, Erik Lensherr, and Raven Darkholme. James McAvoy is as good as ever, but the one who steals the show is Michael Fassbender as Erik Lensherr/Magneto. For those who haven't seen "Inglorious Basterds", Michael Fassbender is a powerhouse actor. To say the least, he IS Magneto (all credit to Sir Ian McKellen). He portrays Magneto as exactly how I would have envisioned him as a young man. Jennifer Lawrence really captured the sort of outcast feeling that I think a lot of the mutants felt when they were young. The other actors are good, although I'm not going to get into how the movie doesn't really respect the source material (like Darwin being one of the first X-Men), but that's part of what's so great about it. It's the perfect prequel, it ties into the continuity created by the previous films and there are DEFINITELY a few bits in there that hardcore fans of the series will enjoy. Since the film is set almost entirely in 1962, the producers have succeded in giving a film a nostalgic and pulpy feeling. All in all, another winner for Matthew Vaughn. I give it 9 out of 10.