2003 Directed by Bryan Singer
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
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X2 is maybe the most important superhero film of the century. The first X-Men and the first Spider-Man proved movies could replicate the magic of comics. X2 proved movies could surpass them, as in incredible sequences like Nightcrawler’s White House siege, which not only recreated the character’s signature teleporting but made it look cooler in fluid motion than it ever could as a bunch of static panels on a page. The dam that bursts in the movie’s climax is like the proverbial floodgates opening as the Hollywood Superhero Gold Rush truly begins. Nothing was the same after X2.
My only quibbles: As fun as Brian Cox is in the role, Stryker is a fairly one-dimensional villain. And the more years that go by, the more it’s clear it was a huge mistake to put the characters in Matrix black leather rather than do timeless interpretations of their costumes. Just let them be superheroes! Own it.
magneto escaping from his plastic prison cell is better than all four avengers movies combined.
"have you ever tried not being a mutant?"
as a gay guy this question of Bobby's mother hit really close to home.
A powerful allegory about how intolerance of social difference leads to state persecution of famous directors.
It's easy to forget that in the so-called ‘dark ages’ (as some like to call it) before the Marvel Cinematic Universe existed and comic book films weren’t the franchise juggernauts they are today, comic book film franchises were not always planned out in infinitesimal detail before the first instalment had a chance to break even. The success of 2000’s X-Men was a pleasant surprise but X2: X-Men United improves on its predecessor in every way possible. Like the first movie, it wraps everything up in spectacular action scenes powered by special effects that never overwhelm the other important elements within.
Starting the film with Charles Xavier's monologue sets the tone for what's to come perfectly, with the film soon transitioning…
magneto escaping from his perspex prison cell by extracting iron from the guard's blood is still insane....
you're only safe around that man if you're anaemic
