The Best Summer Blockbuster in years

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 2003)

As one of the newest fans of X-Men, I was very excited for this film to be released. I had only DISCOVERED the first film about 3 months ago, and was BLOWN away. Last night, my wife and I attended the late showing and had the WORST MOVIE THEATER experience in our lives. No air conditioning, noisy crowd, JAMMED seats, spilled concessions, and fat ladies in the row who wouldn't move for us.
Well, in SPITE of our miserable experience, I must admit that X-MEN 2 was one of the BEST summer films in a few years. This was not just a good film, this was an EXPERIENCE that movie magic is all about.

Yes, there WERE a lot of characters to focus on, and in order to do that, some of our favorite characters from the first one were sacrificed for newer ones, but even the NEW characters were interresting enough that I could forgive the absence of a few others. Cyclops got the worst screen time than anyone else, I actually MISSED him in this film.
But in order to develope the new villian, story-lines, and character developements, I thought Brian Singer did OUTSTANDING and gave us MAGIC.
Now, can I wait till the NEXT X-MEN? I'll just have to see this one a few more times.