Console best movie i've ever seen.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Torrin-McFinn77 After the debacle that was The Last Stand, I was leery of X-Men films. When I heard there were going to be more, my attention was held. We'd have new cast members and new villains, plus an origin story of Professor X and Magneto. We got James McAvoy of SciFi's Children of Dune and Kevin Bacon (who starred in Tremors and Animal House) and we got an era during the Cold War a decade after the second World War. I don't remember too much of First Class, but it was very entertaining. If you wanted more X-Men but were turned off by The Last Stand, this should be your priority. This movie works as a prequel. And it doesn't suck.

cricketbat X-Men: First Class is a fun mix of actual historical events with a comic book storyline. There are some bothersome inconsistencies between this film and the other four, and it was fairly long, but overall it was an entertaining ride with good performances and some fantastic visual effects.

filmtogo Prequels can be good as First Class shows us. Michael Fassbender is Magneto or basically Erik Lehnsherr who calls himself Frankensteins Monster. Also we get Hank McCoys transformation into Beast what looks like a Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde moment. So this could also be called a classic monster movie. But that's the problem. Mutants don't wanna be seen as those monsters. Especially Mystique, here played by Jennifer Lawrence who never fits into that role as good as Rebecca Romijn. The best moments of the film are between Fassbender and James McAvoy as Charles Xavier. Director Matthew Vaughn understands perfectly that these two are friends who are stronger and better together but are divided by their different worldviews. Sebastian Shaw, the leader of the Hellfire Club, is a nice villain for this origin story. He works way better than anything that X-Men: The Last Stand threw at us. There is a little love story - i guess? - between Mystique and Beast that really doesn't work. X-Men: First Class is nevertheless one hell of a good X-Men movie with a formidable cast.

basyaehrman In essence this is a great film. Good script and really swell acting - all very well cast, specifically Xavier and Eric. Plus, a few unexpected story lines and character arcs. Fight scenes that made sense - like two flying mutants (though with different abilities) fighting in the air. There was a lot of international touches that made it authentic. Honestly, for someone just getting introduced to X Men, this would make a great first film to watch. It explains mutations and how to develop them (in the school in previous films, we've only seen them learn history and language arts etc) and you really get to see the mutants improving their skills. However: I'm tired of the trope that it's wrong to kill someone who's going to hurt other people. Nazis, and their doctors who experiment on people, deserve death and worse. There's no need to spare them and pretend it's kindness. And if someone kills someone who's about to start a nuclear war, they're a hero not a monster. And Xavier should have known that "they're just following orders" is the wrong excuse, especially to a broken concentration camp survivor. Also, Beast's face was subpar. Not good. And Magneto in a cape?Lastly, the continuity with other X Men films is bad. For example, from the first trilogy, I'd never have realized how close Xavier and Mystique once were. But on the plus side, this film is really good at showing how Eric and Mystique's relationship developed, as well as Eric and Xavier's - that's one of its greatest accomplishments, although I expected them to have been friends for many years, not months. On the down side, as much as it showed how the mutants became themselves - Eric's story was better than I could have hoped - it's hard to imagine from this that Eric would one day abandon Mystique in a truck, because she lost her mutation. Another glaring lack of continuity is that previous films showed an adult Xavier walking, but here he lost use of his legs way younger. Still, if you can ignore all that, it is a well done film I enjoyed watching.