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When Bryan Singer brought Marvel's X-Men to the vast screen, Magneto and Professor X were elder statesmen, although Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) travels back in time to present an origin story--& an alternate version of history. While Charles Xavier (Laurence Belcher) grows up privileged in New York, Erik Lehnsherr (Bill Milner) grows up underprivileged in Poland. As kids, the mind-reading Charles finds a friend in the shape-shifting Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) & Erik finds an enemy in Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), an power-absorbing Nazi scientist who treats the metal-bending lad like a lab rat. By 1962, Charles (James McAvoy) has grown to be a swaggering genetics professor & Erik (Michael Fassbender, McAvoy's Band of Brothers costar) has turned out to be a brooding agent of revenge. CIA agent Moira (Rose Byrne) brings the two together to work for Division X. With the help of MIB (Oliver Platt) and Hank (A Single Man's Nicholas Hoult), they look for other mutants, while fending off Shaw and Emma Frost (Mad Men's January Jones), who attempt to recruit them for more nefarious ends, leading to a showdown in Cuba between the United States and the Soviet Union, the great & bad mutants, and Charles and Erik, whose ambitions have begun to diverge. Throughout, Vaughn crisscrosses the globe, piles on the visual effects, & juices the action with a rousing score, nevertheless it's the actors who make the biggest impression as McAvoy and Fassbender prove themselves worthy successors to Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. The movie comes alive whenever they take center stage, and dies a small when they don't. For the most part, however, Vaughn does right by playing up the James Bond parallels and acknowledging the debt to producer Bryan Singer by means of a couple of clever cameos

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