Witness the origin

Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, Oliver Platt, Alex Gonzalez, Jason Flemyng, Zoë Kravitz, Morgan Lily, Nicholas Hoult

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ - great

"There's so much more to you than you know, not just pain and anger. There's good in you too, and you can harness all that. You have a power that no one can match, not even me." – Eric Lehnsherr (aka Magneto)

Why watch this? This new direction takes us back to the X-Men origin story with a new cast.

Plot Summary: During the Cold War in the 1960s, Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr, two young mutants with extraordinary powers, meet and form a close bond as they work to find and recruit other individuals like them. Aided by the CIA, they assemble a team to confront a powerful mutant villain who threatens to trigger a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union.

Dad's Preview: This excellent super-hero origin movie focuses a lot of time on the meeting of Erik Lehnsherr (aka Magneto), Charles Xavier (aka Professor X) and Raven (aka Mystique). Erik seeks revenge on the man, Sebastian Shaw, who killed his mother in Auschwitz. Charles attends the University of Oxford, and his able to convince the CIA to fund Division X, a secret division to work with mutants. The new cast is excellent, and there are admirable new additions. The plot is complex, yet easy to follow, and it is a worthy prequel in the X-Men film series. 

Marvel Ent. Group, The Donner's Co., Bad Hat Harry Prod., Dune Ent.,
Ingenious Film Partners; 20th Century Fox