Rating of
3/4
The Best X-Men Film Yet
mitchellyoung - wrote on 07/03/11
I'm going to say it: the best of the X-men series, narrowly outdueling the first film. It shows what can be done when you have a talented new face at the helm. Matthew Vaughn makes all the right choices here - not overpopulating the film with dozens of pointless mutants, creating genuine tension and emotion between the two leads of Professor X and Magneto, and crafting action scenes that are coherent and well-placed in the film. The mutant vs. human rhetoric is still present, but doesn't feel as silly or like it is snarkily trying to draw some real world comparison because it sits well within the paranoid historical climate the film recreates. Plus, there is one awesome cameo that you don't see coming and is easily the film's single best moment.
