X2

"The time has come for those who are different to stand united."

2003 2h 13m EN

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★7.0TMDB · 11,248

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Synopsis

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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.

“The time has come for those who are different to stand united.”

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Cast

Hugh Jackman
Logan / Wolverine
Patrick Stewart
Professor Charles Xavier
Ian McKellen
Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
James Marsden
Scott Summers / Cyclops
Brian Cox
William Stryker
Famke Janssen
Jean Grey
Halle Berry
Ororo Munroe / Storm
Alan Cumming
Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Zak Penn, David Hayter, Bryan Singer
Languages: English, German, Italian
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$110M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 3.7× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 23 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, German, Italian.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "X-Men Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Bryan Singer, shot by Newton Thomas Sigel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Ottman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Elliot Graham shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Bryan Singer directs. Newton Thomas Sigel behind the camera. John Ottman scores. Elliot Graham cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, German, Italian.

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1$110M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 3.7× over at the box office.
3Released 23 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, German, Italian.
5Part of the "X-Men Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by Bryan Singer, shot by Newton Thomas Sigel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by John Ottman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Elliot Graham shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "The time has come for those who are different to stand united.".
11IMDB entry: tt0290334 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1211,248 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
13Classified under 8 themes, including "superhero", "mutant", "based on comic", "sequel".
14Released under 21 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel
Original score: John Ottman
Editing: Elliot Graham
Production design: Guy Hendrix Dyas
Costume design: Louise Mingenbach
Makeup / hair: Gordon J. Smith
VFX supervisor: Michael L. Fink
Sound: Paul Massey
Stunt coordinator: Melissa R. Stubbs
Runtime: 133 min · 2h 13m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $110,000,000
Box office: $407,711,549
Return: 371% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: X2 (2003)

Awards

Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film

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Part of

X-Men Collection

A superhero film series about a team of mutant superheroes based on the Marvel Comics superheroes of the same name.

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Bryan Singer

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tmdb440066252019-03-09
★ 7/10
X2: X-Men United is an improvement over its predecessor in just about every way. Better story, better effects, better action, and more interesting mutants. It's the best of the original X-Men films and a high point for early 2000s comic book moviemaking. Worth watching for the Wolverine vs Lady Deathstrike fight alone.
Kamurai2020-10-10
★ 6/10
Good watch, might watch again, and can recommend. Again, horrible "comic book movie", good stand alone movie. Wolverine was the most interesting thing about the last movie, and this is a surprising instance of a studio realizing audience feedback and basically just made the first Wolverine origin movie, because that's what this is. Comic continuity aside, and Wolverine aside, the war of the Brotherhood of Mutants is fairly compelling angle to take, and it is refreshing they did it from the human's side, but if you look at it closer, then we're just looking at another race war. It sort of takes the fuel out of the fire when you realize how "real" your super power problem story is. While this has a slightly better premise, and good plot skeleton, there is a lot of "(mostly Wolverine does) something cool here" stuff, but there are at least 2 large exceptions with multiple mutants working together that end up being a "lot of cool stuff", but also add some significance to the story and heavily progress the plot. I'd honestly recommend anyone watch this over the original.
r96sk2021-05-20
★ 8/10
Strong sequel. I didn't quite enjoy <em>'X2'</em> as much as <em>'X-Men'</em>, though not by much in truth. This follow-up film is still something I'd class as entertaining. Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) again impresses, though those behind him are - though all good - a little meh in my opinion; especially newcomer Brian Cox (Stryker), who underwhelmed me. All in all, it's a film that is totally worth watching and is a sequel that is worth its salt. /copied directly from my Letterboxd review\