First Class is literally, a fresh start for the X-Men franchise, as it works as a prequel, and is rumored (maybe rightly so) to be a reboot of the series that died down with X-Men Last Stand. There really aren’t a lot of great prequels out there, largely for the reason that you know for sure that the big name characters will survive. This is cleverly avoided as the strongman Wolverine is largely absent from the movie, save for a hilarious Hugh Jackman cameo in a bar.
This tells the story of Magneto (Michael Fassbender) the archnemesis of the last three movies who spent his youth in a concentration camp, where the Nazis discover his ability to move metals with his mind and plan to use him as a weapon. After the war, he tracks down his captors, now living in Argentina as fugitives and defeats them in a showdown in a bar with machetes that gives Magneto his trademark: swift retribution for a society that condemns mutants. The bulk of the movie is set in the early 1960s, when Area 51 and Roswell were fresh in everyone’s mind and the idea that mutants wandered among us, didn’t seem too unlikely, with the country steeped in a Cold War.
Magneto and a young Professor X at first join forces to protect the mutants, an up-and-coming group of very “gifted individuals.” As the friction between them increases, so do spectacular battles, in which mutants play an active role in averting the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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