STARRING: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones, Oliver Platt and Kevin Bacon. Screenplay by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Budget $160 million, boxoffice gross: $353 million. Running time 132 minutes. Originally released in 2011.
Thank god Hollywood aren't producing as many films as they used to so that cinemas have to reissue old films, this month Cineworld are doing both the X-Men and the Batman trilogy as part of the Nolan retrospective they're running.
After the awfulness of 2006's X-Men: Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 the future wasn't looking rosy for the X-Men, that was until Matthew Vaughn stepped in to replace Bryan Singer, rewrote the script with Jane Goldman and showed the world the X-Men had more to offer.
Set in the swinging 60s and showing the origin of the first X-Men as well as Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Professor X (James McAvoy) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) this is an absolute delight, Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw is a fantastic villain. Using the Cuban missile crisis as its backdrop this as a deeply impressively mounted action romp, with a likeable cast of loveable characters and a deeply satisfying climax. Good effects, and with a surprising amount of raunch which was much appreciated.
Gloriously good fun!
8/10
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