Not as good as the first

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2003)

First things first.... why does everyone hate michael kamen so much? i loved his score, sure it didnt have big fanfares but i thought it was terrifically thrilling and moody. i didnt pay so much attention to john ottoman's score, i was just disappointed to hear different opening title music
Second i though the first movie was superb, it was much more than just a comic adaption, it was a really well done story about wolverine with a brilliant bad guy like magneto. the police standoff in the first movie is, thankfully, matched by magneto's feature scene in this movie :)
This film was what i expected, it cut loose on the tight plot of X1. While it did deliver on most of the characters, i certainly agree the nightcrawler and wolverine sequences were spectacular, i thought there were too many plot holes.
the kindof 'the cell' sequence with professor x at the end was well done and very spooky but i didn't feel like it fit. it was very heavy. on the other hand magento's recruitment of pyro was trite. pyro reminded me of anakin in epII, a whingy little arrogant crapster, hollywood needs to get more sorted out about what turns people to evil - i think they should be just driven and passionate and cunning like magneto himself, or oppressed and exiled like mystique. spoiled childs are evil but not because they choose to be.
i never really read or watched the comic, so i don't have any expectations for the characters. thus i didnt really care that cyclops was missing, although he could be a lot more useful than he has been so far. but storm seems like such a lame duck, they have to come up with the most contrived excuses to use her.
anyway i can't say i wasn't impressed. go and have a look. but don't expect no1 again.