Brilliant! Completely Brilliant!

Rating: 9/10 (16 February 2005)

There are no words to describe how great this movie was. Much better than it's predecessor and doesn't even compare to Daredevil or the first Spiderman.
This time around, our X-men encounter a military group who is bound to kill any mutants at any costs. Led by Brian Cox who has a much bigger desire to kill the x-men than before Sentor Kelley died. Where his part is now being taken by Mystique "Rebecca Romjin Stamos." This movie takes a very unpredicted situation at the end where Jean Grey "Famke Janssen" meets her end and a very wet one at that. I wasn't expecting that at all. Which this ending has led no where to turn but enter a very huge part of X-Men. THE PHONEIX SAGA. Which is nice because i was watching the extra's for the first X-men film and Ms. Janssen clearly said she never really wanted a huge part. Well, now your gonna have take on one because The Phoniex is huge part and you'll finally take the spotlight from the recently rejected Halle Berry "Storm" who has reluctantly given up X-men 3 for roles like ROBOTS which will be a flop and the oh so great Catwoman.
Now, since Jean met her sticky end, this seriously destroys Scott "James Mardsen" and suffers huge emotional problems. I think he will have a hard time fighting when the love of his life fell for the sake of him and the others to safety.
Anyway, the rest of the cast return, Hugh Jackman, Ian Mckellan who by the way escaped his plastic prison, Patrick Stewart, Anna Paquin, and Shawn Ashmore who is given a bigger part this time. And some new characters where added Kelly Hu "Kelly Who," Alan Cumming who plays Nightcrawler in which i didn't honestly think that he would do all that great but i was wrong, and Aaron Stanford who plays Pyro and basically follows our hero's around and which evidently ends up with Magneto "Ian McKellan" in the end.
All and all, this movie is great and shows us what people are willing to do and still be criticized for who they are. This movie is nicely done and rises above the rest.
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