X-Men 2 has a solid story that while you
are left in the dark in the beginning, it slowly dawns on you and makes
sense. It addresses what happened in the
previous movie, from how Magneto gets out of prison to Wolverine’s
backstory. Granted, all of this makes
the movie blow out to over two hours and at times, it can feel a bit too
long. There is a slight reliance on
special effects, which means that some scenes it wouldn’t have aged well. It introduces a few new mutants into the main
cast, most of them are likeable but it feels as if the movie is being stretched
too thin in order to give each character some focus. It ends up with some characters having a
pointless role, which could have easily been cut from the movie and it wouldn’t
affect the story at all. X-Men 2 is
lacking some memorable action scenes, it would have been awesome to see the
mutants battle it out but we only get small battles here and there.
