So I saw X2...well, it was okay, in my opinion. Lots of great action, but it lacked a definitive conflict for me. There was a lot of conflict, but perhaps too much, because I felt that in trying to treat too many sub-plots it took away from the movie as a whole. But I like my movies pretty tight plot-wise. And these powers all of a sudden growing...Jean Gray's was a little believable, but all of a sudden Prof. X is powerful enough to kill everyone on Earth? I know, he could probably do that before, but whoa, Nelly! You'd think that's the first thing someone would tell you about a guy. Top of the resume kind of stuff. I thought that they were trying to get him to use Cerebro to try and find all of the mutants to hunt them down. But that he could kill them...that just seems a little too much for me.
Lest I come down too hard on the movie, let me mention that I think that the introduction of Kurt Wagner was awesome. I know next to nothing when it comes to overall X-Men storyline, so I hadn't been too familiar with Nightcrawler. His character was the best thing about the movie, in my opinion. The faith and idealism and general niceness about him, besides the fact that his opening scene was the best of the movie, made him my favorite character. I'm writing this as a general response to the movie without having read the whole thread previous so I'm probably repeating some things. Maybe my biggest complaint with the movie was that Kurt did not take more of a leading or assertive role. After he expressed his idealism to Storm (where he seemed to become a very strong character,) he got pretty passive. So that's all...