![]() ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ and ‘X-Men: First Class’ aren’t heavy offenders of inconsistency with what’s established in ‘X-Men’, ‘X-Men 2’ and ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’, but they’re the starting points. Also, a few things don’t follow up in what’s established in later films, made worse knowing what’s going to happen in the timelines. ![]() The story is pretty solid and the acting is very top notch.īut I can’t rate this one highly enough because of the fact it’s a prequel film and it contains things that we already know what’s going to happen in later ‘X-Men’ films. It’s a movie that mostly sets up the origins of most of the X-Men characters we would get to know in later films pretty well such as Xavier, Magneto and Mystique. On the contrary, this is a better effort compared to ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’. Hear me out! That’s not to say I think ‘X-Men: First Class’ is bad! (sighs) I’m going to go out on a limb again on this one. This is ranked as one of the best ‘X-Men’ films ever made in the series! When the film came out in 2011, everybody raved about it, giving it positive reviews and it became a box office success. The film stars James McCoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Oliver Platt and Kevin Bacon. It’s just as well Matthew Vaughn took charge of this certain film. He was also considered for ‘Thor’ before Kenneth Branagh took over. As I understand, he was originally meant to direct ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ before Brett Ratner took over. ![]() ‘X-Men: First Class’ was directed by Matthew Vaughn. It’s just as well I did in order to satisfy my curiosity about the movie. In the end, I saw ‘X-Men: First Class’ when it came out on DVD. Stephen is more into the ‘X-Men’ films than I am and I was more interested in the trailer for ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ than the trailer for ‘X-Men: First Class’. I recall my best mate Stephen telling me how excited he was about ‘X-Men: First Class’. I was probably excited by meeting ‘Doctor Who’ stars like Sarah Sutton at conventions to be interested in ‘X-Men: First Class’. Therefore, I didn’t see ‘X-Men: First Class’ when it came out at cinemas in 2011. ![]() Bottom line: I’m not that very hyped about certain prequels. I consider ‘The Hobbit’ film trilogy to be worthy of watching in the lead-up to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ film trilogy and I would argue the ‘Star Wars’ prequel films are better efforts compared to the sequels trilogy. ![]() After all, I wasn’t particularly impressed by how a prequel film like ‘Star Trek’ (2009) was handled and that didn’t end up becoming a prequel film since it was set in an alternative reality. I get apprehensive when a film series goes in a particular direction of doing prequel films set before the originals. We’d see a young Charles Xavier who meets a young Magneto before they become Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. You see, it was decided to reboot the ‘X-Men’ film series and start from scratch with a younger ‘X-Men’ cast in films set before the events of the ‘X-Men’ trilogy. But because ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ wasn’t a favourite with ‘X-Men’ fans, ‘X-Men Origins: Magneto’ never got made. Initially, there was going to be a second ‘X-Men Origins’ film focusing on Ian McKellen as Magneto with perhaps, I believe, an appearance by Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier. Please feel free to comment on my review. ![]()
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