A sequel in many ways better than the original, and close to the comic.

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2003)

Warning spoilers. X2 is all in all a delightful piece of sci-fi action. If I should point out something about the movie that I find less agreeable, then it must be the fact that this is only number two in a longer series! When I left the theater I was X-static ( pardon the pun), but never the less I thought "Singer you can´t leave me with this, I must know what comes next". ( I have been reading the comic books for 16 years so I can make an educated guess about what comes next, but still...). The special effects of X2 are breathtakning. Nightcrawler's teleportation powers appears in live action in a way that one couldn´t possibly have dreamed of, and the scene where Magneto breaks out of his plastic prison is, I dare say, poetic. (Don´t worry, he is being as nasty as he can in this story, even making fun of Rouges hair, which I personally find a bit juvenile). Unlike "Spider man" the look of the scenes doesn´t change between "super power scene " and " acting scene". Speaking of scenes that rely more heavily on acting, Bobbys "coming out " to his parents is magnificent in too many ways for me to get into detail with in a short comment, the family cat alone is worth the price of admission. X-men the movie used at lot of time on introducing the whole concept of mutants and the X-men, X2 can go on to tell an exciting story, which gives it an advantage to the original. X2 also get closer to the level of pathos that one is familiar with from the comic books, which also makes more X-ish. Congratulations Brian Singer.