X-Men: First Class (2011)

Lets start with the all to clear and expected negative portions of which you should see coming a mile away just from trailers and clips. The general issue here being the continuity of time period and characters involved, as the only main x-men who are in their right age period are Xavier, Magneto, Mystique and maybe Beast (but at a stretch as originally he does meet Xavier when he is human and Xavier is old) many of the other X-men are just cannon fodder for the plot anyway but it still annoys me that Havok is involved when the story could easily have worked with his "older" Brother Cyclops.

As apposed to previous X films though its only this case that I have found myself interrupting my joy of certain small visuals allot less than id expected. As a big fan of Beast and Magneto and highly fond of Mystique I get my fill of pleasure with some real drama involved with those characters and not to mention the brilliantly acted aspects of god guys and supposedly bad in each.

But as acting goes Im afraid I can't not pick at January Jones' abysmal attempt at Emma Frost who not only lacks an English accent but very much of any real care for being in the role it seems.

All of the bad stuff I cant help but find aside (and a mini shot at the so called "Logan" that Im gonna try and forget) this film was pleasing and as summer movie exploits go I was not hanging my head in shame on exiting the theatre.

What is great with First Class is that it has given a royal injection of hope for the X-men film prospects. Even with the continuity having its bumps the entire story is very neatly wrapped, in some parts perhaps too much so. As the attempts to tie the story nicely together with previous films makes it lesser than it could be. If allowed to spread its wings it would have been far greater and maybe even have been left open for much more raw disagreements between Xavier and Magneto thus giving more power to their eventual parting in friendship (that is made quite short).

Allas That is not the case but it could very easily still manage to pull another film from the events of this and still in this time period, I would actually insist upon it. The best thing about this film as mentioned is that it has renewed the franchise way better than it was to begin with and convinced this X-fan that it can be improved upon and maybe make it feasible for more well structured X-men films to be made.

(Even if it must involve Mckellen or Jackman......sigh)