X2

X2 (2003)

• Director: Bryan Singer
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Famke Jansson, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Bruce Davison
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables, Australia, The Fountain, Kate & Leopold, X Men First Class etc
• Ian McKellen – Vicious, X Men First Class, the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films, Richard III, Six Degrees of Separation, Cold Comfort Farm, The Ballad of Little Jo, Macbeth
• Patrick Stewart – The Hollow Crown Richard II, Hamlet, Extras, X Men First Class, Star Trek (one of them, I don’t remember which), Excalibur, Hamlet, I Claudius
• Halle Berry – Cloud Atlas, Things We Lost in the Fire, Monster’s Ball, X Men First Class, Bulworth, Jungle Fever
• Femke Jansson – X Men Days of Future Past, The Dead Girl
• James Marsden - X Men Days of Future Past, The Butler
• Anna Paquin - X Men Days of Future Past, The Squid and the Whale, Almost Famous, Amistad, The Piano
• Alan Cumming – Doctor Who, The Tempest, Get Carter, Third Rock from the Sun, Titus, Eyes Wide Shut, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
• Why? Slightly addicted to the series
• Seen: 11 October 2019      

       More or less the same cast as the previous one. Bad guys are manipulating Magneto, now in a plastic prison, to get Xavier’s secrets. Hostilities against the mutants are increasing.

       Xavier is kidnapped and the school is invaded.

       It’s fast-paced, confusing at times (as usual) but it makes a kind of sense if you don’t think too hard. The story itself isn’t so interesting. It’s the moments of emotion between the characters that make it worth watching. That and it’s quite exciting. But why make the mutant Kurt, who otherwise is rather cool, a practicing Christian? That’s just silly and lowers the rating. It could have been 3 ½ or 4 but it ends up as

      

3 * of 5 (Hal says 1)