Review of X-Men: First Class (2011) by Damian S — 25 Jul 2018
A film of halves; the first half builds things up really well with good pacing and lots of originality, there's great character work from the two leads as young versions of Xavier and Magneto, who create an electric relationship right out of the pages of the comics, and worthy successors to their previous on-screen iterations and the tone bounces from traumatic holocaust experience to goofy teenagers, yet both are solidly done.
It's the second half that lets things down as things become more run-of-the-mill, more characters are introduced with the results that all of them get severely short-changed and the tones start to rub up against one other and each makes the other seem silly.
The overall experience is still good, but like the young mutants of its story, First Class doesn't quite live up to its potential.
This review of X-Men: First Class (2011) was written by Damian S on 25 Jul 2018.
X-Men: First Class has generally received very positive reviews.
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