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Rating: 4/5

Review: "X-Men: First Class movie review"

This is the fifth installment for the X-Men franchise and it is clearly not slowing down into making more X-Men movies. This is the prequel to Brian Singer's movies. And it is much better than his movies, X-Men 3 or the Origin: Wolverine though it lacks the action the franchise had. The thrilling story makes up of the lack of action. This movie makes the characters more intense actually, you are afraid of their powerful and focused minds of the mutants especially the villian- Shaw and vengeful Erik. I must say due to the intensity of the characters, this is a good and watchable installment. When Matthew Vaughn came aboard, I knew this movie will at least be entertaining. His movies are the entertaining ride, Kick-Ass and Stardust.

The story: It moves fast with thrills. Critics say the plot reminds them a bit of James Bond's. I could see the resemblance but this only takes James Bond's plot like a hint or even a homage. The characters' missions are different. To talk about the action scenes in this is like talking about a bonus in a drama thriller movie. Well, to say the truth, I was not impressed. The brief action scenes before the climax are too short but they still provide the thrills. The climax is okay considering the action surpasses the brief action scenes before it. The mutants clash with their full-blown powers and it is thrilling. Acting wise is good, nothing much to say. Music wise is not bad, I could heard that the composer keeping close to the X-Men franchise music.

Overall: It is a good blockbuster this year. This year seems a good year with good blockbusters coming out like Green Lantern, Transformers 3 etc. I have to say X-Men: First Class is a better Marvel comic movie than the disappointing Thor. It succeeded my low expectations of this movie. Now, let's hope the next and last Marvel comic movie for the year, Captain America will at least be equally entertaining with this.

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