![]() The story is where the darker and bigger terms most apply, apart from a couple of parts that could have slowed down and explained themselves more you are glued to your seat almost the entire time and emotionally connect with scenes and characters too. ![]() There is a melancholic tone too that is dark and quite poignant and the romantic elements are sweet but never too soap-opera-ish. The script is even sharper here and with more depth, the humour and comic one-liners are witty and genuinely funny, they are not cheesy or out-of-place nor are they too much. Whilst Michael Kamen's score in the first was fine, John Ottman's score here is an improvement being more in tune with the atmosphere and what's happening in the story. The photography is beautiful and atmospheric, and the special effects are better here too, they were good in the first that they're slicker, bolder and eye-popping in the way that the first film didn't quite but almost did achieve. Again X2 is very well-made, with the dark visual style still maintained yet with a slightly grander look. X2 isn't perfect either but still a very good film that is bigger and darker than the first and all the better for it. ![]() It's just that whereas the first X-Men film did feel like the beginning of a franchise that was yet to properly find its feet, it was found with X2. Not that the first film was bad, because actually I still found it good, well-made fun for all its flaws.
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