If you
thought we were done with prequels, you were wrong as they decided to look a
little more in-depth at the relationship between Charles Xavier and Magneto
that would ultimately lead them to become the ultimate frenemies.
X-men First
Class was the 2011 entry to the X-men series, Bryan Singer is back but not as a
director as he had other projects to attend to. He instead served as a
co-writer and producer to the movie. The director? Michael Vaughn, the guy
originally intending to direct the Last Stand.
Produced on
an estimated $140-160m budget, they move was reasonably successful, earning
$350m for Fox and that’s enough that persuaded them to continue on with the
movie making and ultimately make 2 sequels to it (possibly more, you never
know) one a hybrid with the old-x-men movies with the purpose of cutting out
the originals from continuity.
It’s also
the first X-men movie I ever watched. It was universally acclaimed at the time
with an 86% rotten tomatoes rating, 65% on metacritic and an average 7.8/10 on
IMDb. What’s my thoughts, well let’s take a look.
