X Men First Class: Blu Ray Review
X Men First class
Rating: M
Released by Universal Home Ent and 20th Century Fox
So once more back into the X Men breach - and a third
attempt at an origins film.
This time though it's
from the minds who brought us the truly wonderful Kick Ass.
James McAvoy stars as Charles Xavier, a gifted young man whose life
is decided by the altruistic path he forges in nurturing mutant kind and
uttering the word "Groovy" as the 1960s progress.
Directly idealogically opposite him is Erik Lehnsherr (a brilliant
Michael Fassbender) whose youth is defined by his tortuous treatment as a Jew in
the Nazi concentration camps at the hands of Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon).
So Erik sets out to hunt Shaw down and kill him - but
when Shaw threatens to bring the world to its knees via nuclear war, Erik and
Xavier join forces - along with other newly discovered mutants to try to avert a
potential world war three.
X Men First Class is
better than some of the more recent entrants into the franchise but it's no
massive progression for the series to be frank.
It's more a case of the film once again attempting to restart and reboot the
franchise and managing to do so in a somewhat at times limp way - so fanboys of
this particular genre be aware...
However, there are some truly
impressive things within this latest mutant outing.
Firstly Kevin Bacon's Shaw is startlingly good - Bacon's really
delivered the acting goods here with menace mixed with charm as well as
incredible screen presence. His is the stand out performance of the film without
a shadow of a doubt.
Fassbender and McAvoy also deliver the goods but it's Fassbender who is the
better actor bringing a dash of danger to the future Magneto as he heads off on
his Bond like quest of vengeance; McAvoy's performance is crippled a little by
his character's penchant for spouting pompous dialogue and putting two fingers
to his forehead every time he uses his telepathy.
Overall, X Men First Class may impress some with its fine acting but
fans of the X genre will be disappointed nothing radical is done (aside from
some great fanboy pleasing cameos); the rest of us may feel it's time to give
the X Men a rest - even though this is rumoured to be the start of a new
trilogy.
Extras: Good solid bunch including
deleted and extended scenes, behind the scenes of the film
Rating: 7/10
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