Every Single X-Men Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

7. X-Men: First Class

After missing out on X3, Matthew Vaughn got his chance to make an X-Men movie with the post-Last Stand reboot that made X-Men great again. Gifted a great cast, Vaughn's youthful prequel has some truly great ideas - like a vengeful Magneto hunting Nazis (which would have happened in the abandoned X-Men Origins: Magneto project) and the Kevin Bacon's Hellfire Club.

It's far from perfect though. Some of the character designs are a little weird - mostly just Jennifer Lawrence's poster paint Barbie doll and Nicholas Hoult's Smurf cat - and Lawrence's performance is a little uneven. As it would be in Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, in fact.

It has a far better script than any of the others ranked below it, the finale is excellent and the origin element is well handled, but First Class is just a little on the slow side compared to what came next. As a palate-cleanser and a promise for the future, though, it was great and Vaughn is to be commended for his rescue job.