In what is beginning to look like the summer of the
superhero film (remember, still to come are Green Lantern and Captain America: The First Avenger), it is with a big,
stupid fanboy grin that I report X-Men: First Class builds on the momentum established by the season's first successful
superhero, Thor, and delivers another solid, entertaining, and thoroughly satisfying comic book
movie.
But as an action
movie that throws back to a time when action
movies didn't also have to be
superheroes or revenge thrillers, The Hitman's Bodyguard is brainless, dumb - fun escapism as its
stupid best.