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It shows the main characters as children: Erik Lensherr is a child in Poland in 1944 and when the nazis separate him from his parents he almost breaks the gate and pulls four men with him before being hit on the head. After that, a doctor wants him to show him what he can do, but he can’t even move a coin, so he orders for her mother to be brought in. He tells Erik to move the coin or he’ll shoot her, and he does. Such is the pain and the anger that Erik kills the two soldiers wearing helmets and messes up everything made of metal in two rooms. The doctor understands that they can unlock his powers with anger and pain... poor kid.
Charles Xavier is in New York in 1944, living in a big house when one night finds his mother in the kitchen who offers to make him a hot chocolate, but apparently she’s the kind of rich woman that never steps foot in the kitchen and never prepares anything for her son, so he understands that’s not his mother and communicates telepathically with her. She reveals her true self: a little girl, all blue with red hair named Raven: “you’re not scared of me?” and Charles smiles: “I always believed I couldn’t be the only one in the world” and tells her that she can take all the food she wants without stealing, and she smiles so prettily :-) - there was a picture of his mom there for her to copy.
We move to 1962. In England Charles studies genetics and uses the phrase “mutant and proud” as a sort of chat-up line, introducing Raven as his sister. He doesn’t understand how this hurts her, ‘mutant and proud’ when she can’t go out of the house without hiding herself - she shows her blonde persona, not her true self. She tries to talk to him about it, but he can’t understand her feelings because, let’s face it, it’s much easier for him, nobody would suspect a thing about his powers unless he chooses to tell them.
Erik is in Switzerland and still has that coin. He threatens a bank director to get the location of doctor Klaus Schmidt, and he’s told he’s in Argentina. Erik goes there, and kills three Germans after saying “I’m Frankenstein’s monster”.
We meet the villain: in Nevada, we see Emma Frost and ‘her associate’ Sebastian Shaw. There’s two more with them, a guy who can create tornados, I’d say, and Azazel, red and with a tail, he can teleport. Emma Frost is a telepath and also can turn her body into diamond. Shaw is planning to start World War Three.
Moira, the agent who saw Emma Frost and the other mutants with her (without Emma detecting her, maybe she was too busy?), asks Xavier’s help, now a professor of genetics after passing his final exams.
Charles reads in her mind about Emma and the others.
In Nevada, we see that Shaw himself has powers when a grenade explodes in his hands and he easily contains the fire with no trouble, saying also “I’ve got the power to absorb energy, keeps me young” - thank you, so that’s why he looks exactly like he did when he met Erik.
The Russians made the protective helmet for Shaw.
Charles and Raven go to Virginia to talk about genetics, and since they don’t believe a word of his theories on mutation, he proves that he can read their minds. When he mentions a secret business regarding nuclear missiles, they start yelling that he’s a spy, so Raven stands up and assumes a man’s form in front of them. Maybe she wanted to get it over with or something, but I felt she wanted to protect Charles.
The people there want them out but a man in black says “I’ll take them”. Charles is interested in Shaw and calls Moira too. They find Shaw’s location, as did Erik: he’s on a ship. Erik is alone, Charles has the coast guard with him. Erik attacks Shaw but Emma protects him. Things don’t look too well for Charles’ allies because he can’t help much and tornado guy messes with their ships. Erik helps them when he tries again to kill Shaw, breaking up his ship with its anchor. Shaw escapes on a submarine. Erik keeps trying, even if he risks drowning, but Charles dives in and stops him, saves him.
They go together to the “Covert Cia Research Base”, where they meet Hank, another mutant; he had kept it a secret until Charles said it out loud. Hank and Raven’s powers are both physical, so they kind of connect. He asks her to take her blood because he wants to create a serum that will give him a normal appearance. She’d like that too, so she agrees. Erik takes Shaw’s file and starts to leave but stays after talking to Charles. While talking to the man in black, Erik states that it should be only them to go out and find other mutants, and I’m happy to say that Charles sides with him. Hank built Cerebro and Charles uses it to find others. Charles and Erik go out recruiting, a girl working at a night club, a taxi driver, a kid in solitary confinement, another kid trying to pick up a girl.. they even introduce themselves to Wolverine, but he sends them away bluntly. It was very nice to see Erik and Charles together :-D The kids talk about their powers, and choose their nicknames. Raven chooses Mystique, the driver is called Darwin and sticks with that because he can adapt, Cassidy chooses Banshee because his power is a sort of supersonic scream. The girl has wings and can fly so she’s Angel. Alex Summers liked to be alone because his power is destructive, and Raven calls him Havoc. She also gives Charles and Xavier their future names :-) Xavier is disappointed when he sees that they were partying, but come on, Charles can’t be more than thirty, he was a little boy in 1944, and I suppose Moira is too. Erik can be a few years older but not much, and yet they all act like they’re adults and the others are children. He was partying too when he met Moira..
Moira’s team plus Erik and Charles go to Russia but Shaw is not there. Erik attacks alone and Xavier goes too because “I can’t leave him alone”. Erik traps Emma to the iron bed and almost kills her but listens to Charles and stops. The reason Shaw is not there is that he’s attacking the Cia facility: Shaw is bulletproof and very strong, he kills many agents helped by Azazel. The kids are terrified then Shaw makes a speech on how they should join him, and Angel does. Darwin tries to get her back and Shaw kills him. Erik will tell them “we can avenge him”. Charles takes them to his house (that will later become his school, so rather big, ‘house’ is not really appropriate) and Erik: “honestly Charles I don’t know how you survived living in such hardship” :-p Xavier helps them control their powers and Hank makes them things that help. Hank says that Raven is forty (?) but her powers keep her young.
Erik trains too, trying to control it. Charles access a lost happy memory in his mind, he says “there is so much more to you than you know, not just pain and anger”.
Erik kind of bonds with Raven, telling her to stop hiding herself, so when Hank comes to her with his serum, she doesn’t want it anymore. She tells him that they are beautiful as they are and that “society should aspire to more like us” and turns blue, but Hank tells her that nobody will think their mutant form beautiful, and when she turn back blonde, he says “you’re beautiful now”, which makes her sad and is a real blow, she seemed to think that they liked each other but, you know, it’s hard to know if someone likes the real you if you never show your real self.
Erik and Charles play chess, Erik says “we are the next stage of human evolution” and talk about the fact that he will kill Shaw when they find him; Charles:”killing Shaw will not bring you peace” - “peace was never an option”.
Hank, who told Raven that “we need this cure”, tries the serum on his feet and at first they turn normal but then the mutation takes over and he becomes the blue Beast we know.
Raven shows up in Erik’s bed but he tells her to go; she’s also looking like her blonde self, and he encourages her to show the real Raven and calls her blue form “perfection”, and tells her “have you ever looked at a tiger and thought you ought to cover it up?” and “you’re an exquisite creature Raven” and gives her a kiss. Then she goes in the kitchen to talk to Charles, and his reaction is not the same, he doesn’t like to see her blue and calls it her “cosmetic problem”... I wanted to shout at him, insensitive rich boy, who doesn’t see that he hurts her. She says that she always thought it would forever be the two of them against the world but “you want to be part of it”.
Hank gives them suits and appears in front of them all blue and hairy, saying “it didn’t attack the cells, it enhanced them”, and Alex names him Beast.
Out there the war is about to start, if a Russian ship will cross the border line they will all start shooting, the sea is full of American and Soviet ships. Shaw’s men killed the crew of one ship so that it wouldn’t stop and cross it, so Charles uses his power to have another Russian ship destroy it in order to stop the war.
Shaw is in a submarine nearby and Banshee becomes their sonar to find it, and then Erik uses his powers to lift the entire submarine out of the water and make it fly; tornado-guy intervenes and he drops it on an island beach. They crash too, and we see Charles saving her by helping enter the plane again and then Erik saving him by covering him and keeping him attached to the plane. Lovely.
Shaw tries to turn himself into a nuclear bomb or something. The mutants fight while Erik goes after Shaw. He disables the nuclear reactor first, then confronts Shaw.
Shaw seems to be winning, but then Erik manages to take the helmet off his head so that Charles can freeze him. Erik wears the helmet instead so that he can’t stop him. Erik kills Shaw with the coin, which enters Shaw’s forehead and exits the back of his head making Charles scream (but I guess Erik can’t hear him now).
All the mutants are considered dangerous so the governments together plan to destroy the island and kill them all, sacrificing Moira. Erik comes out of the submarine flying, apparently now much more confident in his powers, and tells them all how society will never accept them, and that right now all American and Soviet ships are about to attack them. When they do, he stops all the missiles in midair and then turns them around; Charles tries to stop him saying they’re just following orders but “I’ve been at the mercy of men just following orders, never again!” so they fight but Erik keeps sending the missiles towards the ships. Moira starts shooting at him who deflects all the bullets until one of them hits Charles in the back, my face like Raven’s at this point, so Erik stops thinking about the missiles which explode in midair, and the soldiers are safe. Erik hurries to Charles side, takes the bullet out, holds him in his arms and tells him “I want you by my side” and “we’re brothers, you and I; all of us together, protecting each other, we want the same thing” but Charles tells him “I’m sorry but we do not” so Erik motions to Moira to take care of him while he tells the other that “the society won’t accept us” and “who’s with me” and Raven goes. She approaches Charles first, and he tells her to go with Erik, that that’s what she wants.. :-/
The three mutants who were on Shaw’s side join him too, of course, what can they do (three= tornado guy, Angel and Azazel).
Charles can’t feel his legs of course, it’s shocking news to him but we knew that.
We see Charles and Moira at his place, he plans to open an Academy there, and Moira promises she’ll never tell where they are - really? I mean, he’s home, certainly they must have his address somewhere......
Charles wipes the part of her memory that concerns them.
Erik attacks the Cia facility where Emma is still prisoners and encourages her to join them. He seems to have a different helmet, and the last lines are: “Erik, I believe” - “I prefer Magneto”.
Erik - Michael Fassbender (I mean, wow)
Charles - James McAvoy
Raven - Jennifer Lawrence
Shaw - Kevin Bacon
Moira - Rose Byrne
Young Raven - Morgan Lily
Man in black - Oliver Platt
Hank - Nicholas Hoult
Emma - January Jones
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