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Message: <blockquote data-quote="horacethegrey" data-source="post: 5583799" data-attributes="member: 40123">X-Men: First ClassBy far the best X-Men movie ever made. LIKES- James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. Any origin story of the X-Men has to deal with the initial friendship of Charles Xavier (Professor X) and Erik Magnus Lensherr (Magneto), and I thought the movie handled it brilliantly, in no small part to McAvoy and Fassbender's wonderful performances. They had great chemistry and their interactions provide a lot of the movie's heart and warmth and humor.- Supporting Cast that didn't feel useless. My biggest complaint of the previous X-Men flicks was how wasted the large cast of characters felt because of the Wolverine show. Here, every character at least played a part, and their subplots contributed to the story at large, rather than being a distraction. In particular, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique and Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy/Beast were particular standouts.- Hilarious cameos. [sblock]Much as I'm glad that this film is no longer a Wolverine fest, it was still a LOL moment seeing Hugh Jackman pop up there. I was not expecting to see him so it was a real hoot. And Rebecca Romijn too, that was pretty cool as well. [/sblock]- Kevin Bacon. I was apprehensive at first when I learned he was gonna play Sebastian Shaw. I should have known better though. Bacon's been great at playing bad guys for years, and his Shaw is a magnificently cold bastard through and through. The way his powers were displayed onscreen was pretty well handled I thought. Made it clear that he was more than a match for Magneto.- 1960's setting. I really liked that they set this in the Sixties. It gave the film a groovy James Bond feel and it was great twist to include the Cuban Missile Crisis as part of the overarching plot.- Scale. This film felt big. You really felt the fate of the world was really in the hands of the X-Men. Again it goes back to the brilliant conceit of working the Cuban Missile Crisis into the main plot of the X-Men vs The Hellfire Club.DISLIKES- Cheesy score. I thought the musical score was a little cheesy at times. But that's a minor quibble to an otherwise excellent film.Overall, this flick was great, and makes me hungry for more X-Men films, something the previous two films didn't.</blockquote>

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