2003 · superhero · action · sci-fi
X2
Directed by Bryan Singer2h 13m2003
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 Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
Our read: X2 (2003) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded superhero · action · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured superhero / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
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