X2: X-Men United
Critic: Alan
First let me reiterate that I am not a fanboy of anything. So I
objectively watched this movie. Some of the cameos were cool and the
story could have been ripped directly from the pages of the comic.
After watching the first one Logan had much more of an edge but now
he seems blunted. Actually what I think it is, is that in the first
one he was the only one with an edge but they were all a little more
human and a little less forgiving in this story. Logan is as he was
it's just that everyone else caught up to him. I think Nightcrawler
was done amazingly well and Storm and Jean were much better in this
one. Unfortunately I felt that this story wasn't paced very well and
although it had the theme and plot of the comics gone by it did not
have the action. In the first one Xavier felt a great swell of pity
for anyone who came to that school looking for trouble. In this one
not just the X-Men but every mutant that lives in that school got
their arse handed to them or they ran away. The entire plot of the
movie was given away in the first half hour except for the small
hint to X-3 at the end. It had it's moments and it is ranked in
league with the first one but from what I have read this should have
been imagination reborn and the story since it was completely given
away was not strong enough to carry it through the entire two hours.
If you are like me then this is a must see because it is X-Men. If
you enjoy a good movie experience then I recommend it at the movies
because action flicks are better in the theater other than that this
is a rental when it hits DVD. Nothing more, Nothing less.
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