(2) - Film Review of X-Men: First Class - Information list about the Characters

In the previous post, I talked about the plot of the movie and about the movie itself. But in this post, I'm going to talk about the characters of the movie and their powers and abilities.

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Professor X or Charles Xavier (James McAvoy): A powerful telepathic who can read minds and also a clairvoyant. He decided to join a team with the mutants that he and Erik were detecting. His aim is to stop the strategy that Shaw and his team were planning. 

Magneto or Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender): As a young boy, Erik knew he was different from the others and after a short while he discovered he had an ability with controlling magnetism. After he’s grown up, he forms a friendship a Charles and creates a plan to save the world from Shaw.

Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon): Sebastian, an evil mutant who is a Nazi collaborator. His abilities are: absorbing energy and re-channel the absorbed energy. His plans are to start a war so the mutants can rule the earth.

Emma Frost (January Jones): A beautiful blonde mutant with magnificent powers: telepathic and also possess a diamond-like skin that is impossible to destroy. She’s one of Shaw’ team.

Beast or Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult): He’s a scientist with few mutant powers. He creates and drank some particular chemicals which resulted in unleashing a ‘Beast’.

Mystique or Raven Darkholme (Jennifer Lawrence): A good friend of Charles Xavier but at the end we see that she decides to choose different ways which leads her to evil. Her power is shape-shifting. She can shape-shift into anyone she wants.

Angel Salvadore (Zoe Kravitz): An ex-dancer, with insect-like wings tattoo which become real wings. She also has another cool power which is lethal: spitting acid.

Havok or Alex Summers (Lucas Till): Alex can eject energy waves which cause flames. He learned the full control of his powers with the aid of Charles Xavier.

Reptide (Alejandro Gonzalez): Always following his leader, Shaw, he creates a small masses of air rotating quickly which are called whirlwinds that destroy everything. It is very powerful.

Azazel (Jason Flemying): He has a figure of a demon which can teleport. He’s on Shaw’s side.

Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne): A CIA agent. She is one of the few humans that knows about the mutants and their powers, she follows Charles Xavier, so she can work with them and finds out what is going to happen between the good and the evil mutants.

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(2) - Film Review of X-Men Class

Hey guys. My name is Eman Hersey and this blog is about a film review. The film that I'm going to be reviewing is X-Men: First Class which is one of my favourite movies. This blog is created for my school assignment, so I hope you will like it.

The Trailer of the Movie:

The Summary of the Movie:

In the beginning of the film, we see a young boy revealing his magnetic powers in 1944. Erik Lensherr (the same boy with the magnetic powers) is grown up and plans to kill Sebastian Shaw because he was the one who killed his mother, so Erik wanted revenge on him. After a short period of time, he meets another mutant Charles Xavier, the one that met Mystique when he was a little boy and became good friends. When Erik Lensherr and Charles Xavier met, they also become best friends and their job was to find new mutants like them to teach them how to control their powers. But not all of the mutants were good. In fact, some of the evil mutants were: Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Azazel and more. Their evil intention is to start a nuclear war to destroy the world and increase their abilities and rule the world.

Reviewing the Movie:

This movie has been officially rated 3 stars. There were some critics stating that the movie was a bit long and that there were some difficult moments in the dialogue such as not understanding some words that were said. But I would like to mention the good stuff about the movie such as: there is good action involved. It kept on the same old theme that all the 'X-Men trilogy', 'X-Men: Origins', 'X-men TV series' and the comics have. And last but not least, the whole cast was excellent, especially when it comes to the main co-stars which are James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender.

The Full Version of X-Men: First Class Theme Song:

Some details about the movie:

Production Studio - 20th Century Fox

Director - Matthew Vaughn

Cast - James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones

Genre - Action / Adventure

Duration - 132 minutes

Released on - 9th September 2011

MPAA Rating - PG-13

This film was written by Sheldon Turner and Bryan Singer. It was produced by Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer , Simon Kinberg and Gregory Goodman. 

X-men: First Class filming began on the 31st August 2010 in Oxford, England and was released on the 1st June 2011. This movie's budget was between $140 and $160 million.

Evaluation - My Opinion

In my opinion, this movie was excellently filmed, including the script and the acting. If I would compare it with other superheroes movie, I would still choose this one because of the fact that I saw all the other X-Men movies, including all the episodes and the story keeps on going from one movie to the other and can be easily understood. Not to mention the actions. I think that it has a good action scenes in it. I also would like to emphasise on some characters that in my opinion were very good such as: 'Emma Frost' (January Jones). Her acting was very realistic and good. Even 'Mystique' (Jennifer Lawrence) was brilliant, especially those scenes when we see her shape-shifting. Although the shape-shifting was computer made, it was really good on her. I think that every actor and actress made their part really efficient and I wouldn't trade one actor with the other for sure !