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X men first class film11/18/2023 But Fassbender is too busy blowing our mind as the electrifying, dangerous Magneto. You know who would have been a fantastic Sebastian Shaw? Fassbender, the first actor I’ve ever thought would be both a great James Bond and a great Bond baddie. (In that vein, it’s intriguing to note that those two countries were once routinely called “superpowers.”)ĭirector Matthew Vaughn gives “First Class” style and class that are a little bit James Bond, a little bit “Mad Men.” Actually, I’d like a little bit less “Mad Men,” since that show’s blank January Jones turns up as a henchwoman to Shaw, exhibiting expressions that range all the way from “What’s going on?” to “I really wonder what’s going on.” In general, the villains are not as good as they could be in “First Class” – Shaw isn’t on screen enough to make much of an impression and Bacon is too lightweight to dominate a scene, much less the world. And, now that our country’s foes are so much more complicated, there’s also innocence and nostalgia in the idea of the U.S.S.R. There’s an innocence in those scenes, before the mutants have figured out that governments will try to pervert or destroy their powers. There are several playful scenes with the young heroes meeting for the first time, gleefully demonstrating their superpowers to each other like freshman at a mutant frat party. That leaves room for lots of good stuff in “First Class,” which plays more like a spy movie (secret passageways! code words!) than a superhero movie. closer to nuclear war in the Bay of Pigs, the two join forces with other mutants, including Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence, husky-voiced and witty) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult), to prevent world destruction. When an evil genius named Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) tries to move the U.S. Beginning when Charles Xavier (who was played by Patrick Stewart in previous films, but is James McAvoy here) and Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (previously Ian McKellen) were boys in 1944 and then jumping ahead to 1962, the film shows how they became aware there were other mutants like them with special powers. “First Class” is a prequel to the “X-Men” movies we’ve seen so far. And where, not coincidentally, he plays Magneto. That’s not the case in “X-Men: First Class,” where Michael Fassbender yanks our attention to him like a magnet. There were so many super-heroes banging around in the previous “X-Men” movies that it was often hard to tell who we were supposed to care about.
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