Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

Bryan Singer

Director

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X2 (Movie)

Bryan Singer, who also directed the first adaptation of the great Marvel comic book X-Men, once again respects the earnest emotion of his source material, which raises adolescent disaffection to an apocalyptic scale. This time the mutants are threatened by a human scientist (Brian Cox) who wants, for complex psychological reasons, to wipe them off the face of the earth. As they try to stop him, the X-Men explore their own emotions and relationships, and it is their hurt feelings and identity crises that give the movie some dramatic heft to accompany the expected explosions, high-flying fistfights and not-quite-sublime special effects. — A. O. Scott