Dude : Phoenix !

Rating: 9/10 (4 May 2003)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I'd like to thank Mr Singer for his gift (my birthday was a few days ago) !
X 2 is the kind of movie that make people realize that comics fans are not losers, geeks or retards.
The movie is almost perfect. Yes, "almost". I mean, Bryan Singer is a great director, but he still need some training with action sequence : the first sequence with Kurt Nightcrawler is a masterpiece of suspense and choreography, but, oddly, the fight between Wolverine and Deathstrike is shot like a Michael Bay-film (too many shots, the characters are dressed the same way so you can't figure who is who, you don't really understand what happens).
There's also a little moral problem : Deathstrike is considered evil and gets killed by Wolverine, even though she was under Stryker's control, just like Nightcrawler and Cyclops ! Even the poor Jason dies : Nightcrawler saves Storm, then Xavier, but leaves the handicaped mutant in Cerebro !
But I'm just being picky, here. X 2 is great entertainment ! Hey, it's even great cinema !
I can't wait for X 3 ! I can't believe they dared to introduce the Phoenix !