X-Men First Class based on stories by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby - 7 out of 10

X-Men First Class based on stories by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
7 out of 10


For this cinephile who is still not convinced by cartoon based movies, just as one of them has broken the box office record, Avengers End Game, films with X Men, Spider and other kinds of fabulous men and women are to be avoided.

What do you do though when there's an avalanche and if you do not see at least some of them, you're completely out of of the loop?
You have no idea what people talk when they mention the cryptic Winter is Coming...no, I haven't even watched the popular Game of Thrones

Admittedly there's something worthwhile about motion pictures that are full of extraordinary characters.
People live in a world where there's nothing glorious about going to the office every day and they therefore need to watch some features with glorious figures, fantastical developments.

Avengers and X Men are thus the equivalents, supposedly for adults, of Snow White, Cinderella and other characters from children's books.
They also possess qualities that may make some of those motion pictures educational, to a degree.

Inspiring viewers to be more like the figures on screen...
Brave, dedicated, loyal, extremely intelligent, resilient, kind, gritty, emotionally intelligent- which is more important than the classic IQ.
Evidently, the other taken these movies would be that they just make the audiences dumber.

The debut of this feature from the X Men long line - being so successful at the box office, they will keep making sequels and prequels to the age of doom - was somewhat amusing, but also a bit frightening.
A central part of the plot revolves around the missiles that Americans install in Turkey and the use of the real life Cuban Missiles Crises for the benefit of the film.

Indeed, fragments of speeches made by John Fitzgerald Kennedy are inserted in the film.
So is part of the real life confrontation, between the American Seventh Fleet and the Russian ships on their way to Cuba.

In real life, this may have been as close as humanity came to annihilation by thermo nuclear war.
Until that is, humans boiled the planet to the point of no return according to some experts.

There's nothing wrong,in the view of elected clowns like Trump, Bolsanaro or others made of similar, stupid jelly stuff.
In First Class, a conflict of mutants and super villains is taking place while the two enemy fleets are facing each other, not far from communist Cuba.

Ironically, the decades old Turkey missiles issue has a new twist.
The would be dictator Erdogan feels closer to Putin's Russia, than to traditional, democratic allies, albeit in Trump, he should find a cretinous, demented fool, with almost identical aspirations and a fondness for tyranny and loveable killers such as Kim.

Erdogan is not installing missiles that would threaten Russia, like in this X Men saga,but on the contrary, he is buying Russian weapons that attract the wrath of the West and NATO, of which the new Turkish sultan is a member...for the moment, who knows what he would do next.

As for X Men First Class, there is a pleasure in seeing all the formidable actresses and actors, but for this viewer, it is diminished by the 'fantastic' plot.