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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
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"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" tells the story of Wolverine's epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed, and the ominous Weapon X program. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new, including surprise appearances by several legends of the X-Men universe.
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'X-Men First Class' 'Two Jews On Film' Only One Love Those Mutuant Super Heroes
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By Joan Alperin Schwartz
Right off the bat, I have to say that I gave 'X-Men First Class' 5 bagels out of 5. I absolutely loved it.
The director, Matthew Vaughn did the 'X Men' franchise proud. 'X-Men First Class' is a prequel. Before Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) was Professor X and Eric Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) became Magneto, they were just two mutant guys discovering their powers and figuring out how to use them.
Charles and Eric were also on the same side. Charles is your typical nice guy...goodlooking, brilliant, and super rich. He's also an Oxford graduate whose speciality is genetics. Charles also happens to be the world's most powerful telepath.
Eric comes from an entirely different background. When we meet him, it's the 1940's and WW11 is in full force. Eric and his parents are rounded up in Poland and taken to Auschwitz. When Eric is separated from his parents, he freaks out big time and winds up bending a heavy metal gate with his mind in order to follow them. Bad move...
This gets the attention of a deranged Nazi scientist, (were there any other kind)Dr. Schmidt (Kevin Bacon). The good doctor is determined to fully unleash and harness Erik's powers. When the boy resists, Schmidt shoots Eric's mother dead right in front of him. That does the trick.
Twenty years later, Eric is a grown man. He has one mission in life: track down and kill Dr. Schmidt...aka Sebastian Shaw. Shaw, thanks to his experiments on Eric, now has the ability to absorb energy and re-channel it into superhuman strength. Not good...considering the guy is a sociopath and thinks the world would be a much better place without humans.
When Charles and Eric meet...
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reviewed by twojewsonfilm (Filmaster.com) on the 5th of July 2011
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So that's one is a hard one to rate.
I tend to be favourable to super-heroes related stuff. Like most guys, I love Wolverine and Hugh Jackman is an excellent casting for it. The story here mostly stays 'true' to most of the Wolverine background.
Yet, yet, yet, the movie fell to come alive and draw me in. It seemed like dull actions sequences after dull actions sequences with little drama to hook you in. Missed opportunity but I can't actually say why...