Much Better Than The First

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2009)

This X-Men movie is great from beginning to end. The story was great, the fights were perfect, the characters were interesting, everything had a purpose, and it left you wanting more.
This being a sequel definitely had an advantage over the first in the series due to the fact that the characters did not have to be introduced. Instead, the main arc of the story could take off right from the get go.
Nightcrawler looks great and they did a wonderful job with the CGI of his teleportation ability.
One of the only problems with this movie is that there are so many characters for a two hour film that all could not be included. Instead of having something going on, Cyclops had to spend most of the movie knocked out somewhere. I know I'm in the minority here, but personally I could have watched a four hour movie with a grandiose story which included all characters containing sub-stories for each to be occupied with. But I definitely know that most people have no desire to watch an extra long X-Men movie like that.
I did enjoy "The Last Stand" a bit more than "X2", but that is by a very small margin. Both movies are terrific and worth seeing.