X2 (2003)
Directed by Bryan Singer
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.
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But the final climax (there are, of course, several), which depends on a courageous act of self-sacrifice, is equally suggestive of the close of another sequel, 1982’s “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”
Screenwriter Zak Penn also has a mixed track record with Marvel adaptations of X-Men 2 and 3, Fantastic Four, and Elektra.
“X-Men 2” did nothing to improve on the series; “ X-Men 3: Last Stand ” is almost in the “Godzilla 1998” mold of better off forgotten; “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was crap with no sense of who Logan was; and “ X-Men: First Class ” had a split personality with all the scenes featuring Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy being great and everything else being pretty much forgettable.
Singer himself only directed two more superhero movies, the superior “X-Men 2” and the superiorly “meh” “Superman Returns.”
In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) partakes of a unique form of time tripping, and the results are the best in the series since X-Men 2.
By crossing the streams of the original “X-Men” trilogy with “X-Men: First Class,” director Bryan Singer (“X-Men,” “X-Men 2”) and writer Simon Kinberg (“First Class”) continue to expand the franchise that was all but given up for dead after the overwhelming stink of “X-Men: The Last Stand.”
I?m pleased that director Bryan Singer ( X-Men and X-Men 2 ), working from Simon Kinberg?s (X-Men: The Last Stand ) screenplay, made sure most of the regular mutants received some screen time ?