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

7.04

10774 votes

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