Entertaining super hero film

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2003)

An entertaining super hero action film, that I enjoyed more than the original. Basicaly the plot has a sinister figure in the U.S. Government manipulating the President to try to wipe out the mutants once and for all... so they launch an assault on the X-Mansion and the X-Men wind up having to scatter and try to fight back. All the actors from the original film return and are joined here by a few other X-Men that have been brought in from the comics. A fairly faithfull rendition of the comic book storylines featuring decent acting and entertaining fight scenes (something lacking from the original). Halle Berry and Famke Janssen have more to do this time, Anna Paquin has less.. but the focus remains on Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and Patrick Stewart's Professor X. Still, it was vastly entertaining.. better than the original. GRADE: B+