Re: X-Men First Class (2011)
I dug it for the most part - the first hour of the movie is absolutely solid, but the second half kind of starts to get a bit wonky.
Michael Fassbender should audition for James Bond if Daniel Craig steps down, he'd make an outstanding Bond given what he does with Magneto here. James MacAvoy seems to be forced to touch his forehead a lot and make like he's getting migranes, but does manage to capture a lot of the mannerisms and characteristics that Patrick Stewart brought to the Professor X character. And January Jones was fucking awful in this whenever she opened her mouth.
I was pretty impressed with how they were weaving history and the events of the Cuban Missle Crisis into the whole story - Matthew Vaughn did a great job here and even managed to evoke some reminders to why he's got a bright future ahead of him with how he pulled out some of his old tricks that he used in Layer Cake.
It's a decent summer superhero film. Not the best, but it certainly makes up for the shitty X3 sequel and how they ruined a lot of the characters.