A good movie

After hearing here and there that this movie was great (it was even the best movie released in 2011 according to IMDb for a while), I was really curious to check it out. Eventually, I thought it was a solid and entertaining super-hero flick but I can’t say I was really blown away by the whole thing. I mean, the story was decent, there was an awesome cast and it was fun but, honestly, except for moving the action to the 60’s and give us some younger versions for (some of) the characters, there was honestly nothing really revolutionary about this prequel. After 4 movies, I’m actually pretty much done with this struggle concerning the X-men whether they should exterminate human-kind or accept that they will be always considered as some weird freakish outcasts. It was interesting during the 1st two movies but now, it’s getting rather tiresome and I wish they would move on towards something else. Furthermore, pretty much like any other X-men feature, there was again the same issue that there was just way too many characters involved and, except for 2 of them, the rest was not developed and they were basically limited to do a few tricks from time to time. Still, even though it was nothing amazing, I still enjoyed this flick. Indeed, there was one thing that made this movie stand out from the rest of your average super-hero movies and it was the relationship between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. Even though the rest of the movie was pretty standard, those 2 characters were very well written and their relationship, how it started, how it evolved, was really interesting. Furthermore, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender both gave some very good performances so I was really hooked when both men were on the screen. To conclude, even though I tend to think this movie is rather overrated, it is indeed one of the better super-hero movies out there and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10