kevin bacon o here it is, the tale of how the mighty-but-flawed X-Men came into being. And let this be said, this is a better film than the previous one in which the X-ers were being very dull indeed. The beginning is in a concentration camp at the fag end of World War II, where the young Eric Lensherr (Fassbender) comes under the evil gaze of Dr Schmidt (Bacon). The boy can bend metal to his will, and he finds out just how immense his powers are in the most tragic way imaginable: brought on by the brutal loss of a parent.
We then take a leap twenty years hence. The world is in the throes of the chilliest period of the cold war, which culminated in the stand-off between the US and the USSR over the Cuban missiles crisis, and where, famously, the other guy blinked. Ads by Google X-Men:First Class melds fact and fiction without too much trouble even though the effort slows the film down, with the inclusion of the documentary clips showing blond American presidents and their speeches about nuclear weapons and keeping the world free. With the help, of course, of a handful of superhero mutants: the Oxford professor who can read minds, Charles Xavier (McAvoy), the inky blue Mystique (Lawrence), the guy who has feet for hands (Hoult), Eric-who-can-can-tame-metal, and a couple of others.
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