The second installment in the X-Men franchise has one of the strongest stories & tightest screenplays in its pack. Just like the first, X2 continues the fight for mutant equality in the most down-to-earth possible way with powerful use of lens to register imageries & dialogues that matter to leave no details out of the picture we're seeing! Every information you need is supplied through the screenplay that connects past, present & future occurrences in this gripping, dark & horrifying continuation!
Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos), Pyro (Aaron Stanford) & William Stryker (Brian Cox) are legit characters. Of course above all, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is the one we set our eyes on! Nightcrawler's (Alan Cumming) makeup is outstanding!
However, no one knows what's the purpose of the Mystique-Wolverine seduction scene. Ronny (James Kirk) calling the cops isn't feasible. Romance between Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) & Rogue (Anna Paquin) is just in the film to be considerate towards building these two mundane characters. Jean's (Famke Janssen) Phoenix initiation is abrupt. There has to be more solid justification for her pre-ending actions too.
Scenes wise, writers Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris & David Hayter have pepper enthralling events throughout. Nightcrawler's ambush in the White House, Stryker's team trespassing X-Mansion, Brotherhood of Mutants & X-Men teaming up, Magneto escaping plastic prison using blood iron, Cerebro's complete functionality unlocking & house arrest at Bobby's are instances. The script allows even the smallest personas to play his/her role while focusing on fulfilling Wolverine's search of his past & Magneto's (Ian McKellen) ulterior motive!
One particular scene during the post-climax where X-Men meets the President prior to the latter's speech broadcast in Professor X's (Patrick Stewart) paused environment deserves a paragraph on its own! All the energy you can find in a superhero film is harvested into this one magnanimous shot!