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In the early 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, a mutant named Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) meets a fellow mutant named Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender). Despite their vastly different backgrounds -- Charles grew up with a wealthy family, while Erik lost his parents at Auschwitz -- the two become close friends. As the world teeters on the brink of a nuclear war, Charles and Erik with other mutants join forces to save humanity. However, a situation soon tears the friends apart.

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With a strong script, stylish direction, and powerful performances from its well-rounded cast, X-Men: First Class is a welcome return to form for the franchise.

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X-Men: First Class | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Jarrah E Hodge Bitch Media The acting, special effects, and writing were excellent, except possibly the two times Xavier tries to hit on women in bars by saying they have "groovy mutation[s]". Jan 7, 2021 Full Review X-Men: First Class | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Shubhra Gupta The Indian Express First Class can safely be watched by first-timers, but old faithfuls of the franchise will get a little more, tracing the origins of their favourite characters. Rated: 3/5 Apr 2, 2019 Full Review X-Men: First Class | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online If you didn't see the previous movies, you may not be able to appreciate some of the subtle references, but that won't make you enjoy the movie any less. Check it out. Rated: B Sep 8, 2017 Full Review X-Men: First Class | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand ... Jennifer Lawrence is superb as the young blue-skinned shape-changer Mystique, trying to reconcile her identity crisis with Xavier’s sometimes oblivious idealism. Sep 9, 2023 Full Review X-Men: First Class | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review A summer movie where audiences will leave talking about the performances and the ideas, not the mindless battles. Rated: 3.5/4 Jun 7, 2023 Full Review X-Men: First Class | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Cory Woodroof Lumination Network This is an immensely fun, engaging, stylish superhero film that I fully recommend for your viewing pleasure. Feb 11, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Perfect X-Men movie! Micheal fassbender and James mcavoy truly shine in this movie! This is a close contender for the best X-Men movie ever next to Logan and Days of Future past. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/23/24 Full Review Ryan H After 2 straight subpar films, First Class gets the series back on track. It feature 2 standout performances from James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender as Prof. X & Magneto respectively. The rest of the cast give their best; they’re just nothing outstanding. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/15/24 Full Review Wendel L Direção: BomAtuação: OkRoteiro: BomCaracterização: OkSoundtrack: Ok Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/09/24 Full Review Marlon W This is exactly what I want to see in a movie based on comic book superheroes. Great acting, great relationships between characters, good special effects, flashy and vibrant uniforms, X-Man: Fist Class is an example of a superhero movie. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/27/24 Full Review John C I'm not the biggest X-men fan. I never read the comics, so my knowledge of the story only comes from the films. If you look online you'll see plenty of fanboys crying because some of the dates in this prequel don't add up in the original trilogy.That's probably true, but I didn't notice. I thought, for a prequel - which, let's face it, is just an excuse to milk a few extra quid out of the franchise's audience - it was actually okay. It did a good job of showing us a backstory that we didn't know, i.e. how Professor X and Magneto went from friends to enemies (George Lucas could take note as to how to write prequels!). Everything seemed to fit together well and tie up all the loose ends. Plus there wasn't too much pointless action and the special effects seemed just right (although I just watched Transformers 3, so I'm all CGIed out right now!). It felt more like a spy film with super powers.All in all, good fun. And just be thankful they did cast Kevin Bacon as the villain as opposed to Colin Firth (seriously, he just would have killed the film). Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/27/24 Full Review Thomas K Un grande viaggio verso la scoperta di come è nata questa discriminazione verso i mutanti. X-men: First Class introduce i suoi personaggi al meglio e sono caratterizzati bene e uno scontro alla anni 60, davvero incredibile, l’atmosfera attirante, il ritmo non male e il tono equilibrato che manda avanti la trama al meglio. 8/10 Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Matthew Vaughn Director James McAvoy Charles Xavier Michael Fassbender Erik Lehnsherr Rose Byrne Moira MacTaggert Jennifer Lawrence Raven January Jones Emma Frost
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Synopsis In the early 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, a mutant named Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) meets a fellow mutant named Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender). Despite their vastly different backgrounds -- Charles grew up with a wealthy family, while Erik lost his parents at Auschwitz -- the two become close friends. As the world teeters on the brink of a nuclear war, Charles and Erik with other mutants join forces to save humanity. However, a situation soon tears the friends apart.

Director
Matthew Vaughn

Producer
Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Gregory Goodman

Screenwriter
Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn

Distributor
20th Century Fox

Production Co
Bad Hat Harry, Donners' Company

Rating
PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Action|Brief Partial Nudity|Intense Sequences of Violence|Language|Some Sexual Content)

Genre
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 3, 2011, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 25, 2015

Box Office (Gross USA)
$146.4M

Runtime
2h 6m

Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, DTS
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