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At his side is the familiar face of Mystique (played by Rebecca Romijn in previous installments) played here by Jennifer Lawrence ( Winter’s Bone) and referred to as Raven. Speaking in German, Shaw chides Erik into showing him the powers he possesses, but is unable to coax it out of him until he kills his mother, a move that unleashes Erik’s power as well as decides his future.įlash forward 18 years and meet Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) a burgeoning geneticist and surprising playboy as he uses his knowledge and powers of telepathy to pick up ladies as well as find others like him. Shortly thereafter we are introduced to Sebastian Shaw (played to absolute perfection by Kevin Bacon).

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As she’s taken from him, the pain wells inside, calling power he has no idea how to control as the metal gates bend inwards before he is knocked unconscious. Taking us back to the start of the mutant storyline, the film begins in Poland 1944 where a young Erik Lensherr (Bill Milner) is separated from his mother at Auschwitz. Enter X-Men: First Class, something of a globe-trotting superhero feature akin to old school James Bond films with a focus on character, energy and overall entertainment rather than simply being “bigger”. Brett Ratner’s lackluster third film is one most of us can agree was not very good and while I didn’t mind X-Men Origins: Wolverine as much as others, I still can’t argue against those that found it to be a rather sloppy and an entirely unnecessary entry into a faltering franchise. Marvel and 20th Century Fox’s X-Men feature film franchise has suffered a few bumps in the road since Bryan Singer’s standout X2: X-Men United in 2003. Michael Fassbender, Caleb Landry Jones, James McAvoy, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence and Lucas Till in X-Men: First Class

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