Better than Daredevil but 15min too long.

Rating: Null/10 (29 April 2003)

*Spoilers* The film starts brilliantly with a hiss and roar showing Nightcrawler beating up the U.S Presidents guard dogs in spectacular fashion, then almost killing him. This film has some awesome fight choreography, but lacks with slow story almost dragging it down, A few minor plotholes, with some of the subplot/storylines left unfinished (perhaps for X3?). Many great gimmicks such as Magneto pulling the pins from the Rangers grenades to extracting Iron from a guards body to use as bullets. The violence is hitched up a notch from the previous film which is probably a good thing considering the target audience. Slight romance angles even things out, humour in the right places and Wolverine finds some answers. Two characters I think were underused were Deathstrike and Collosus (grossly misplaced as a student). Still no sign of Gambit. Slow story, great action sequences.
PS Wolverine kills about 15 Special-ops Rangers even though they didnt kill any mutants, no wonder the humans were mad.
PSS Will not be bigger or better than The Matrix sequels.