Enjoyable to watch

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2003)

I thought X2 was very watchable. I don't know how closely it is related to the comic as I have never read it.
What made it more interesting for me was that a week before watching this movie I was at the Australian Museum in Sydney which happened to have a human evolution exhibit. It showed a BBC documentary video on evolution called "Children of Eve" and showed the relationship between early Neanderthal man and the Crone Magnons, which is mentioned in X2.
The film has further character development than the first. But with so many characters there had to be sacrifices in development of some characters. I think there was room to develop the Storm character, with the potential I saw in the interaction between her and night stalker about faith which could have lead into interesting internal conflicts. I think Cyclops missed out in this department as well getting surprisingly little screen time.
Overall I liked the film and will be eager to see a further installment.