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I guess I expect a little too much out of an action film, especially a sci-fi film based on a comic book where anything is possible or can happen. X2 does not deliver that punch, but it certainly begins like it has what it takes to stand out in this genre. Although what this film lacks in story, acting and thrills, it does a wonderful job in costumes and makeup. This film begins with a White House tour. I don’t think these tours come anywhere close to the President’s Oval Office nor would they possibly pass the President or anyone in his family, but how this action sequence was set up, it appears that the tour comes deadly close to the Oval Office. Kurt Wagner, AKA the Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming, Spy Kids 2) disguised as a tourist, wages an attack on the President that all the president’s men could not stop, nor prevent. The Nightcrawler is a transporter so he can move through objects. While the action was enough to whet your appetite for the rest of this movie, it was disappointing because if he really wanted the president dead, he would be dead. In fact it became very clear that if any of the mutants want someone dead, it would be very easy. What this attack did accomplish was put into motion a potential war against mutants, empowered by Gen. William Stryker (Brian Cox, The Ring). Stryker wants all mutants dead, even though his son Jason (Michael Reid Mackay, Apt Pupil) is a former student of the mutant academy has a connection with Wolvrine (Hugh Jackman, Kate & Leopold). The President authorized a raid on the school. In the meantime, Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: Nemesis) with the help of his cerebro machine is trying to track the mutant that attacked the President. Storm (Halle Berry, Die Another Day) and Dr. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen, I Spy) take the jet and go after the Nightcrawler after Xavier locates him in Boston. Xavier and Cyclops head to the prison that has incarcerated Magneto (Ian McKellen, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers). Stryker knows quite a bit more about the mutants than he should, and they are trying to find out how he came across this information. This turns out to be a trap for Xavier. The raid on the school happens, but the real target is the cerebro machine. After the initial action sequence the rest of the movie was filler. With the exception of watching Magneto pull the iron out of the blood of a man through his pores which was something unique. Now that all the best action has been revealed, the only thing left are answers to many questions posed from the first film, X-Men. Also appearing in this Byran Singer directed film were Rebecca Romjin-Stamos (Femme Fatale), Bruce Davison, Anna Paquin, Helly Hu, Aaron Stanford, Katie Stuart and James Marsden. It seems Stamos was only eye candy with a spiffy blue costume even though she could morph into any person. The lines were drawn between good and evil, unique concept, only then the good versus evil was again stretched to mutant against mutant. The visual effects were spectacular, the acting less than adequate and the costumes fabulous darling so I gave X2 six couches on the About-movies.com scale.
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