Before the mutants have revealed their existence to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr become Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before becoming the worst enemies, they were still friends, and worked with other mutants to prevent the destruction of the world, the Armageddon. During this operation, the emerging conflict between the two men intensified, and the eternal war between the Brotherhood Magneto and the X-Men’s Professor X broke…
X-Men – The Beginning leads us to the origins of the saga X-Men, revealing a secret history around the major events of the Twentieth century.
Author’s Note
[rating:7/10]
• Release Date : June 1, 2011
• Directed by Matthew Vaughn
• Film american
• With James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Lawrence
• Duration : 2h10min
• Original title : X-Men First Class
• Trailer :
After a bad X-Men – the last stand and X-Men Origins – Wolverine laughable, go see a new movie of the franchise X-Men was a bit of a masochism for sure. The pitch is starting to regain the team mutant to its origins, meeting Xavier-Magneto, roughly speaking, allows not to carry around old characters “classic” and reestablish a storyline independent of the trilogy that precedes it. Finally, some fundamentals remain : of course the aspect of super-heroic and group relationships emerging, but especially the story about the racism developed in the previous movies as in the comic book. Whether this is through the history of Erik/Magneto (a jewish child confronting with the nazis) than by the questions of some of the characters on their appearances “abnormal”, passing through the skepticism and fear of the authorities informed of the existence of mutants : many elements bring us back to a moral lesson on the minorities, the tolerance and the difference…
But where the about was a hair lourdingue by his being taken seriously in some movies of the saga, the bias of the scenario and the director towards a more humorous and more “relaxed” (without pay not in the parody) this version of the message to something much more digestible, while being clear about the message that seems to take to heart the director. Found in X-Men – The Beginning the Matthew Vaughn who mastered the imagery of american comics that we have been able to perceive in Kick-Ass, whether it be in the next taken film characters in costumes and in the management of visual effects, or too poor, or exaggerated or used to an excessive extent. Similarly, the film transports us to the years 60 way post card : if the director is too young to adhere to a truth absolute, it happens to tickle the imagination of the historical references to the founding for the United States (Kennedy, cuban missile crisis…) and by key visual to be accurate (the grainy black and white television broadcasting a speech, held the antiquated but modern…).
X-Men – The Beginning restoring the fortunes of the franchise mutant.
At the level of characters and the interpretation, the beautiful role is really given to the interpreter of Magneto : Michael Fassbender. It handles perfectly the anger of the character and its contradictions, wavering between humanism proposed by Xavier and the fundamentalism to which the events in the prompt. If James McAvoy sings a Charles Xavier very honourable, it is Jennifer Lawrence, the interpreter of Raven/Mystique, who was also in the lot for a little the same reasons. On the other hand, the benefit of Kevin Bacon in “villain of the film” is rather disappointing on the whole film, in the first sequences the face of the future Magneto : it cachetonne and cabotine more than he worries.
X-Men – The Beginning restoring the fortunes of the franchise mutant. The bias of a lightness found, an atmosphere of sixties new and fundamental respected, are the recipe for a superhero movie successful and assumed. Fans of the genre will normally be satisfied. A small word for the fans of the comic book : you must see this film as an adaptation or a What if. In my opinion, the spirit of the franchise is respected, but is moving away from the comic-book in a timely manner, and intelligent. In short, not the movie of the century, of course, but a good superhero movie.