A great experience.

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 2003)

When I went to the cinema I was very apprehensive of what I was going to see. After all, I had (unfortunately) already seen the Matrix sequel, and my expectations for X2 were significantly lowered. I was pleasantly surprised. Most of the main characters were well-rounded, the plot easy to follow for someone who isn't a reader of the comics, and with a little research in the original story-line, I was able to understand more subtle points of the plot, like Jean Grey's transformation into the Phoenix. The actors did a great job in portraying their characters, special effects were very good, all in all, a very good movie that builds well on the first X-Men and although there is resolution in the end of the movie, we get the groundwork for X3 (probably the emergence of Jean Grey as the Phoenix?) My only grievance is that I have read some reviews on how injecting iron into the guard, or similar actions, were not 'realistic'.
Well, in a movie that is about mutants who can change shape at will, control others' minds, have claws emerge from their hands, get encased in metal, etc., I do not mind if pumping liquid iron into the guard's blood stream is not physically or biologically possible. If I did, I would watch a documentary about sickle-cell anemia instead, not a fantasy movie based on a comic.