Why? The plot is disjointed and contrived. I would have so much preferred more effort put into the third film of the original trilogy to make it not suck so much than spend any money on this at all.
Wait, is this supposed to be a reboot? I can't tell. That's a large part of the problem. Set in the 1960s, this film shows events long before those of the trilogy, in a way compatible with (hello Hugh Jackman) the Wolverine origin film. Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) is a former Nazi scientist bent on world destruction to reform it for the mutant race. Erik Lehnsherr totally agrees with all of that except Shaw happened to have killed his mother, so Erik teams up with Charles Xavier and his new mutant understudies to take on Shaw and the simultaneous American and Soviet navies. If they'd made it clear this was a reboot, I might have taken it differently.
X-Men: First Class
2011, 132 minutes, directed by Matthew Vaughn
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