Product Description
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X-Men: First Class is the thrilling, eye-opening chapter you’ve
been waiting for...Witness the beginning of the X-Men Universe.
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor
X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their
superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a
desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear
war.
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When Bryan Singer brought Marvel's X-Men to the big screen,
Magneto and Professor X were elder statesmen, but Matthew Vaughn
(Kick-Ass) travels back in time to present an origin story--and
an alternate version of history. While Charles Xavier (Laurence
Belcher) grows up privileged in New York, Erik Lehnsherr (Bill
Milner) grows up underprivileged in Poland. As children, the
mind-reading Charles finds a friend in the shape-shifting Raven
(Jennifer Lawrence) and Erik finds an enemy in Sebastian Shaw
(Kevin Bacon), an energy-absorbing Nazi scientist who treats the
metal-bending lad like a lab rat. By 1962, Charles (James McAvoy)
has become a swaggering genetics professor and Erik (Michael
Fassbender, McAvoy's Band of Brothers costar) has become a
brooding agent of revenge. CIA agent Moira (Rose Byrne) brings
the two together to work for Division X. With the help of MIB
(Oliver Platt) and Hank (A Single Man's Nicholas Hoult), they
seek out other mutants, while fending off Shaw and Emma Frost
(Mad Men's January Jones), who try to recruit them for more
nefarious ends, leading to a showdown in Cuba between the United
States and the Soviet Union, the good and bad mutants, and
Charles and Erik, whose goals have be to diverge. Throughout,
Vaughn crisscrosses the globe, piles on the visual effects, and
juices the action with a rousing score, but it's the actors who
make the biggest impression as McAvoy and Fassbender prove
themselves worthy successors to Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.
The movie comes alive whenever they take center stage, and dies a
little when they don't. For the most part, though, Vaughn does
right by playing up the James Bond parallels and acknowledging
the debt to producer Bryan Singer through a couple of clever
cameos. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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