The movie stars James McAvoy (Wanted, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe), Michael Fassbender (Inglorius Basterds, Hunger), Jennifer Lawrence (The Beaver, The Poker House), Rose Byrne (Adam, Sunshine), January Jones (We are Marshall. Pirate Radio), Jason Flemyng (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, From Hell), Kevin Bacon (Mystic River, Hollow Man), and Zoe Kravitz (Its Kind of a Funny Story, The Brave One), Hugh Jackman (great one scene cameo), and Michael Ironside (why did he go by M. anybody know?)
The plot of the movie is the early years of the XMen. Its a prequel that starts when some chaeracters are kids. What brings them together and then what drives them into the two camps that was important in the other XMen movies.
The starting scenes of the movie get them off to a good start. They are good scenes in the concentration camp. The scene in Bacons office with Fassbender are chilling. Showing the other half of the office with the knives was a smart move and I think captures the depravity of the Nazis. The contrast of the early lives of McAvoy and Fassbender is well done. To me it shows the importance of the Nature vs Nurture debate. Its how to make a psycopath or someone who cares for people. One is consumed by hate and revenge the other is consumes with faith in others and wanting to help others.
The operating room was a very nice visual. Very antiseptic, it draws my eye to the secne.
I thought the recruitment scenes were very funny. I thought it was well done with the best one, one that fails, is the one line by Jackman.
To me this is a Sci Fi that is really social commentary at its best. It makes it clear what mans inhumanity towards each other can have on an individual, the concentration camps. I think there may be some of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", or it may be "no good deed goes unpunished". There is also a part that says that people dont react well to those are diffrent from "us" weather color or abilities. Its in our nature to hate those who are dffrent but hopefully in real life it dissipates some (with the intigration of the army and gay marriage). There will always be people who likes the statis quo and those for who change cant come soon enough.
There were a few scenes where the computer generation was just not good at all. One of the scenes was when Mystic was shape shifting in the bed room, the outline of her body was just totally bad. The scene with the sub landing on the beach left a lot to be desired also. I expected more out of a main stream movie.
Towards the end of the movie they may want to say that revenge can turn you into what you hate. I may be reading it wrong. It may be the past inhumanity towards Fassbender is really what it may be about. The guilt and crulity of his mothers murder may be just too much to over come when it happens to someone so young.
Im rating this movie as a B-. The first half of the movie was better for me then the second half. The first half deals with the formation and background. While I think the second half is more action packed. Its just a personal preference.
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