My Top 10: James McAvoy Films

Despite not seriously thinking about making a career as an actor, Scottish actor James McAvoy found inspiration to make a living out of this. Now, he has become one of Britian's biggest stars of the 21st century.
McAvoy has now become part of several franchises and has worked with many of the industries biggest directors. He has also done many different genres, and is still searching for new ones to be part of.

There are some in the following list that I will be impressed if you have see or head of it. Before I go into my list, I have to give an honorable mention to Filth. Despite the film being ranked outside my top 10, the performance by McAvoy could well be his best one.

If this was a top 11, then I would have had included The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. After being brought up with the BBC TV series, I was super excited for this. Based on the iconic C.S Lewis novel, it sees four kids travel to a magical kingdom where they learn their true fate. McAvoy plays a fawn called Mr. Tumnus, who befriends the first kid that gets transported.

Out of his 38 films, I have only seen 23 of them. I will rank all of the ones that I have seen, and give a short review for each of my top 10:

23) Sherlock Gnomes
22) Gnomeo & Juliet
21) X-Men: Dark Phoenix
20) Welcome To The Punch
19) Wimbledon
18) Trance
17) Victor Frankenstein
16) Becoming Jane
15) It Chapter Two
14) Filth
13) Wanted
12) Arthur Christmas
11) The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

10) X-Men: Apocalypse - The latest installment of the X-Men franchise sees the current cast (including McAvoy as Professor X) move into the 80's.

After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, the X-Men must team-up to prevent his human extinction plan from happening.

While it's not up there with the best of the franchise, it's still a solid fun time.

9) Starter For 10 - Every so often, a middle of the road British rom-com can warm up. This is definitely one of them.

Set in the mid 1980's, it sees an aspiring working-class student begin his first year in Bristol University. While doing his studies, his dream of being on the University Challenge team begins.

It has great British humor, including a young and over-the-top Benedict Cumberbatch.

8) X-Men: Days Of Future Past - A very entertaining and complex episode in the X-Men franchise. It sees Wolverine be sent back in time to prevent a war that results in doom for both mutants and humans.

It is a clever mashup of the old and current cast, and while the plot can get confusing, it is still a lot of fun has a similar feel to the first two.

McAvoy returns as Professor X.

7) Atomic Blonde - While Charlize Theron is leading the way as an undercover MI6 agent, McAvoy's character is there to help her out in her mission in Berlin.

McAvoy gives us a great character with a lot of problems. His unhinged performance gave this film a welcomed edge to it while the brutal action takes centre stage.

6) Strings - I bet a lot of you have not seen this? I would see it as this generations 'The Dark Crystal'.

McAvoy voices main character Hal, a prince who leave his city to avenge his further's murder.

It welcomes the concept of puppet theatre, and I hope more people check this out.

5) Glass - The conclusion to M. Night Shyamalan's alternative superhero trilogy.

It sees our three perculiar characters collide as a secret organisation captures and imprison them.

McAvoy is back as Kevin and he continues to showcase his talent due to his character 24 personalities.

His scenes are an absolute joy to watch an dream character for any actor to have.

4) Split - A surprise hit and what is being seen as the comeback of director M. Night Shyamalan.

McAvoy plays a disturbed character who possesses 23 different personalities. When kidnapping three helpless girl, a 24th personality is about to be unleashed.

It's super-fun with its concept, and is constantly tense.

3) The Last King Of Scotland - The Oscar-winning biography drama tells the events of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, but told through the eyes of his personal physician.

McAvoy plays the physician. His chemistry is great with Forest Whitaker, and that landed Whitaker with a well deserved Oscar. That performance is so strong, that that alone makes this film highly entertaining.

2) X-Men: First Class - My favourite film from Marvel Studios is the film that brought us back on track with the X-Men franchise.

After a couple of critical disappointments, director Matthew Vaughan gave us a fun blockbuster with great characters and romping action scenes.

McAvoy plays a young Professor X, and his chemistry Michael Fassbender as Magneto is great to watch develop.

1) Atonement - A highly engaging romantic war drama which sees a misunderstanding evolve into change the course of several lives.

Winner of 2 BAFTA's and 2 Golden Globes, everything works so well and mixes together to become such an engaging drama that brings all the emotions.

As well as McAvoy, we have Keira Knightley, a young Saorise Ronan, Benedict Cumberbatch and many other top British talent.