The Best Superhero Movie I've Ever Seen

Movie: X-Men: First Class

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi

Rated: PG-13

Synopsis: In 1962, the world is on the brink of a nuclear war between the United States and Russia. While the countries try to find a way to resolve their conflicts peacefully, a group of people endowed with special powers known as Mutants try to force humans into their own annihilation so that Mutants can be the last ones standing as the next evolution of human beings. However, another group of Mutants, lead by Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender), are determined to stop them and save mankind.

X-Men: First Class is the prequel of the X-Men trilogy and follows the early lives of the oldest X-Men--Professor X, Magneto, and Mystique.

This movie came out in 2011 and I still remember how taken aback people were by how unexpectedly successful it was. It's no doubt after seeing this movie. The first three X-Men movies were decent but this one is an edge of your seat thriller that isn't just about "Will Magneto finally succeed in conquering the world for Mutants?", this movie deals with the Cold War and how close we were to a nuclear holocaust.

Should you see it? Yes! In my opinion, this is the best superhero movie I've ever seen, much better than the first three X-Men movies. The only superhero movies that come close are probably The Avengers and The Dark Knight.

Fun Facts:

• A sequel to this movie is in the works called X-Men: Days of Future Past that will be released in Summer 2014. And there are talks of creating a third movie, turning them into a trilogy.
• It is rumored that the original X-Men were based off another superhero team called the Doom Patrol that also dealt with a group of misfit superheroes and was introduced 3 months before the first X-Men comic was released.