I enjoyed the first X film,loved the second.The third was painful as was the Wolverine spinoff.I had next to no expectations for this and was pleasently surprised.Do they screw with continuity?Yes they do.Is there room for soem more character development?Yes again.
The biggest issue I have is that this movie's biggest asset was Michael Fassbender as Magneto,and whenever he isn't in the film,it suffers a bit.The newly recruited X Men are barely given backstories,and Charles is played as being as concerned with picking up girls as he is in helping mutantkind.Fassbender's Magneto is the only character given a complete arc,from his childhood spent in a Nazi camp,to his eventual hunting of the same men who ripped him from his family,right on through his meeting Xavier and breaking off on his own.He plays him with just the right amounts of rage towards the Nazis who persucuted him for being different,and the hipocrisy as he shows the same feelings towards humans.
The action scenes are good,and Kevin Bacon adds some weight as head of the Hellfire Club Sebastian Shaw.James Mcavoy is good as Xavier,and the climax involving Shaw's scheme behind the Cuban Missile Crisis was quite well done.3.5 of 5 stars.
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