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X2: X-Men United

Movie » X2: X-Men United released on May 02, 2003.

The second movie of the original X-Men trilogy. Brings on a new villain, William Stryker.

The X2: X-Men United wiki last edited by guttridgeb on 04/07/13 10:36AM View full history

Having returned from the north after finding nothing, Wolverine/Logan watches over the school students for a night as Charles Xavier visits Magneto in his plastic confinement prison and Storm and Jean Grey search for a teleporter mutant known as Nightcrawler who attempted to assassinate the president.

Things become deadly as William Stryker, a scientist who has experimented on mutants, leads a siege on Xavier's mansion- few mutants escape.

With the school no longer safe, Magneto out of prison and forming a temporary alliance with the X-Men, and Professor Xavier in the hands of Stryker; the mutants team up to stop Stryker's plans to wipe the mutants off the face of the Earth.

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A Social Issue Movie With Big Budget Effects 0

It is possible to make an intelligent science fiction/action movie – I thought that X2 had a lot to say about humanity.  X2: X-Men United, the excellent second film in the X-Men series - like the comics it was based on - raises a lot of ethical issues. Right now, in the real world, there are governments that require particularly skilled martial artists to be registered the same way a gun is. Assuming people were born with potentially lethal powers, why shouldn't they be registered, or marked so ...

0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

Probably the best marvel movie today!!! 0

Summary:  The X-men are in turmoil when there many members are separated from one another due to the fact that a new enemy emerges from the hate that has been pushing mutants down for so long. Due to this new enemy the X-men are forced to team up with magneto and his allies in order to stop the new threat. However, along the way many of the heroes must face their own difficult journey in order to succeed.  The Good:  Practically, almost of the entire film is very well made and also very entertai...

9 out of 10 found this review helpful.

What X3 should have been, X-Men at its finest! 0

Any one reading this knows this movie has been out for quite some time know and should be warned that part of this review is in light of what all the other x-men related movies have brought to the table.   It’s sorta like a “Looking back review” (LBR) were I………well…..look back at the movie and give credit were it indeed got some stuff much better than the more recent attempts (maybe I should have done LBR of the first movie.   But oh well I can still make it work). The Spectacular: The whole fir...

10 out of 10 found this review helpful.

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