Premise that never delivers

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2003)

X2, the expectation is there, the characters are all developed from the first film, we are ready for an action ride .....wolverines going to kick some butt, storms going to explode..............roll feature, nothing!!!
Don't get me wrong, I know a film needs a story line and X2 does have the premise of a great one underlying it. Its just not told very well.

For the first half hour we sit through a slow building story line of human vs mutant and yet more character developments. Cut this down, get to the meat of the movie quicker and things would have been a whole load better.
In my view the director also fails to capitalise on the great actors working with him such as Patrick Stewart and Brian Cox.
Over drawn, trying to get too deep and meaningful, and ultimatley gets lost........... 6 out of 10.