Xmen first class amazon3/13/2023 ![]() Through his rage, Erik uses his developing mutant powers to bend and break the barbwire fences holding in the Jews in the camp. The movie opens with a scene from the first X-MEN as a young Erik Lehnsherr, later known as Magneto, watches his parents herded off into a National Socialist concentration camp during World War II. It’s a confused jumble of tired plots covering too many characters, with shocking content used to spice up the story and humanist elements promoting false evolution theories. X-MEN: FIRST CLASS goes back to the beginning to explore the foundations of the mutant X-Men crew. (HH, EvEv, C, BB, Ro, Co, AP, P, PC, LL, VVV, SS, N, A, D, M) Strong humanist, evolutionary worldview, with overt evolution dogma as the source of everything, a revenge motif, and elements of uncontrollable rage and anger, mitigated slightly by some redemptive elements with self-sacrifice as lead character saves the other lead multiple times, and strong moral elements such as multiple references to “doing the right thing” and “being the better man,” and one demonstration of Christian faith as man crosses himself, and Nazi racism rebuked, but with confusing Romantic, Communist, Anti-American, politically correct moral equivalency between Soviet Communist Russia and the United States in Cuban missile crisis, positing that the USA had provoked the crisis, although both nations were being manipulated by a Nazi mutant in the movie nine obscenities, including the “f” bomb, and six strong profanities, including JC very strong violence includes boy’s mother shot in front of him when he could not obey Nazi, man rips out metal filling from tooth of another man, young man crushes the heads of two men through his power, boy violently destroys a room, man stabs another man in the hand then kills two other men, explosions, gunfire, people murdered, man kills multiple people with sharp swords, coin goes all the way through man’s head and kills him, and men thrown to the ground and through windows some intense sexual content and innuendo includes two scenes of woman trying to seduce men, man actually shown passionately touching well endowed woman in underwear but it turns out to be a mind control fantasy, two men on bed and showgirl comes in with exchange of crude talk, and passionate kissing no explicit nudity but lots of show girls through many parts of the movie walking around in underwear alcohol use smoking and, Jews are taken to concentration camp and revenge motif. The moral, redemptive elements in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS fail to overcome the negative content. It also has a strong humanist worldview that promotes evolution and contains foul language, cruel violence and salacious moments. The movie has some good effects and poignant moments, but it’s extremely convoluted, with many different storylines developing simultaneously. X-MEN: FIRST CLASS tries to use shock to entertain, but forgets that story is the key to great entertainment. In a mission to find Shaw, Charles meets Erik, but discord between them threatens to derail their efforts to stop the bad guys. Using his powerful telepathic abilities, Charles discovers Shaw’s trying to take over the world with three other mutants. ![]() ![]() Charles writes a thesis on mutants, so the CIA recruits him to stop mutants trying to turn the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis into World War III. Cut to young Charles Xavier, a very wealthy, intelligent mutant who wants to live in peace. ![]() Erik, the mutant later known as the villain Magneto, wants revenge on Shaw, the National Socialist mutant who murdered Erik’s mother. X-MEN: FIRST CLASS shows the foundations of the X-Men superheroes and villains.
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