Review of X2 (2003) by Luke E — 11 May 2016

X-Men 2, is a sequel that not only expands on the universe of the first X-Men film, it's a vastly superior comic book movie sequel in general. Once again bringing back many of our favourite faces from the first movie, along with many other new characters and actors ready to face up to an even bigger challenge.

What makes this film stand out is it's layered characters, brewing conflicts and multiple compelling plot-lines structured throughout the script. There's also plenty of drama for our very colourful cast of characters to carry the film's subject matter among many of Bryan Singer's exciting action set pieces.

Even for a film on this scale it's length and pacing really helped build the momentum for these characters putting them in more desperate and dire situations. Hell, even for a film that has a much more bigger scale than it's predecessor, it's special effects certainly hold up to this day and age as a small piece of the continuing rise and impressive trend of the "Comic Book Movie Boom" of the early Noughties.

I guess it would have only taken an even more impressive film to really beat the quality of this film the franchise, sadly we didn't get that almost ages later.