This is good...

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 2003)

X-Men. The first one was by far and away the best comic adaptation I've seen for a good long while, but X2 blew me away. A problem I had with the first movie was the fact that only Wolverine and Rogue had any real character development, but it's been made sure of that everyone (except, for some weird reason, Cyclops) gets more involved roles in the movie this time round.
As if the characters in X-Men weren't cool enough (Toad!!!), the second outing has offered up some really choice mutants. There's Yuriko Omaya (Deathstrike), who couples good looks with slice-and-dice claws to rival ol' Wolvie's, the flame-controlling Pyro (some pretty decent torn-between-good-and-evil acting from Aaron Stanford) and finally the unbelievably awesome NIGHTCRAWLER!!! The blue-skinned teleporter steals the show with his acrobatics, and it's one of Alan Cummings' best performances undoubtedly. Then there's the old faves, by which I mean the delicious Halle Berry as Storm, the always-pleasing Ian McKellen as Magneto (the same goes for Patrick Stewart as Professor X) and the brillian Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. I don't know how they found him, but I'm bloody glad they did!