The first X-Men film was a pretty good starting film for the series. It is not a great film but does have a sense of campy fun to like about it. The film is important though, because before this it seemed that audience were giving up on superhero films because of what Joel Schumacer did to the batman films. This film was the first comic book superhero film of the decade, and seemed to get the genre on the right path (god knows last decade was dominated by superhero films.) The film is directed by Bryan Singer and stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian Mckellen, James Marsden, Famke Janssen, and Halle Berry.
Rating = 77%
X2: X- Men United to me was the first great superhero film since Superman II at the time it came out. It has some of the most memorable action sequences of the series, for an example we see in the opening scene with Nightcrawler a teleporter trying to assinate the president. The reason why I think this film is great is because it is the most serious of the original films, and it was also back when we thought Hugh Jackman as Wolverine was really cool. The film is directed by Bryan Singer and stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian Mckellen, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Alan Cumming, James Marsden and Brian Cox.
Rating = 91%
X - Men: The Last Stand (2006)
X - Men: The Last Stand is a very disapointing end to the trilogy. It acts like it even did not watch the last two films and what they where trying to accomplish. It has some meorable action sequences but what was been building up in my opinion was a final battle between Magneto and Proffessor X but that is not really happens at all. Instead at the final climax of our battle we see Pyro vs. Iceman. Who cares? The whole conflict is not about them, it should be about the head of the two different idelologies. Plus it has way to many characters and does poor time trying to juggle them all give us any charater development with them at all.
The film is directed by Brett Ratner and stars Hugh Jackman, Ian Mckellen, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry and Patrick Stewart.
Rating = 38%
X - Men Orgins: Wolverine (2009)
X - Men Orgins: Wolverine is an even bigger slap in the face of the audience then the previous one. It has no sense of what makes the X - Men special. This is a problem with this franchise is that the studio thinks what makes the X - Men films great was that the audience love to see Wolverine and they love to see all the crazy mutations. No the eaudience expects a story to make since and for some emotions . This has none at all. It was just a quick paycheck for Marvel and Fox. The film is directed by Gavin Hood and stars Hugh Jackman, Liev Schrieber, Danny Huston, and Ryan Reynolds.
Rating = 21%
X - Men: First Class(2011)
X - Men First Class is probably the best Marvel superhero film so far. It goes to a level of depth where a lot of the Marvel films just failed to go. The movie is directed by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake and Kick-Ass) and stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, January Jones and Kevin Bacon.
The film starts out with Eric (Magneto) as a young child in the Holocaust and how this Nazi mutant Sebastain Shaw who wants to exploit Eric power as a mutant. Then after the Holocaust Eric is out Nazi hunting to revenge for what they end up doing to him. Also at the beginning of the film we are introduced to a young Charles Xavier (Professor X). Xavier is a real cool guy, hes using his super powers to pick up women. However when a CIA agent played by Rose Byrne contacts him and says she needs his help to stop a Sebastain Shaw because he wants to start World War III by using The Cold War. She and Xavier form a mutant team compiled with characters like Magneto, Mystique, Beast, Havoc, Banshee, Angel, and Darwin.
As much as I Love this film it has its problems. I think January Jones is attractive but is a terrible actress. Then some of the dialogue is also at time kind of bad. Another things is that it has so many characters in this film that a lot of times some of them get lost in the mix. However most of these things I think are kind of nitpicks.
What works for this film really works, Michael Fassbender as Magneto is incredible in this. When he is out Nazi hunting it is amazing, if you thought he was good confronting Nazis in that Bar scene in Inglorious Bastards wait till you see the scene where he is confronting Nazis in a Argentinian bar in this. Whenever Fassbender and McAvoy are on screen together it is acting gold on screen. Matthew Vaughn early James Bond style of editing also really works here too. The ending climax to this is so amazing if its Magneto pulling a submarine out of the water, Banshee's flying sequences, or Beast and Havoc fighting off the enemy it is amazing.
The Bottom line is this film is great even with its flaws and has brought some respect back to this franchise after the studio produced two pieces of shit the last two times out. It has made me care about the first two films again. This series works best when have the two different mutant ideologies going head to head with each other. Not just when we are showing off mutant powers or looking at Wolverine making growling yelling sounds when kills another man. So go check it out.
Rating 93%
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