From usatoday [excerpt], Director Matthew Vaughn knows how to pack an action movie with a stylish punch, as evidenced in last year's Kick-Ass. Here he revives the flagging franchise with this globe-trotting iteration, infusing it with new life and dazzling visual effects. Audiences get a full sense of the compelling back stories of elder X statesmen, Magneto and Professor X, who have more intrinsically intriguing stories than the hirsute hero in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
