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The plot The film starts off with Nightcrawler, a teleporting mutant, attempts to assassinate the President, but he fails and escapes. Storm and Jean find Nightcrawler with the help of Professor Xavier and Cerebro. Cyclops and Professor X visit Magneto in his prison to see if he had anything to do with the attempt on the President’s life. Reading Magneto's mind, Professor X discovers that a government operative, William Stryker, has been taking information from Magneto. But Cyclops and Professor X are captured by Stryker and the army storm the X-Mansion.Some of the students manage to escape.Once again Mystique doubles as Senator Kelly and finds out where Magneto is being held and helps him escape. Meanwhile the X-Men have problems with the police and make their get away in the X-Jet.The X-Men team up with Magneto and Mystique. Magneto has learned Stryker orchestrated the attack on the President and has been experimenting on mutants, using a drug injected directly into the back of the neck to control them. Jean reads Nightcrawler's mind and determines that Stryker's base is located at Alkali Lake, inside the dam. He has also stolen enough equipment from Xavier's own Cerebro unit to build his own Cerebro, with which he plans to kill all the world's mutants. Stryker can control Professor Xavier using his son, Jason Stryker, who is able to project powerful visions in the mind. Professor X is instructed to use Cerebro to find and kill all existing mutants. Mystique infiltrates Stryker's base using a number of disguises. As the X-Men enter Storm and Nightcrawler pair off, searching for kidnapped students. Jean, Magneto, and Mystique are attacked by a brainwashed Cyclops on their way to rescue Professor X, causing damage to the generators that keep the dam from collapsing. The force of Jean's telekinetic blast awakens Cyclops from his brainwashing. Wolverine finds Stryker in an adamantium smelting room along with Lady Deathstrike. Wolverine and Deathstrike begin fighting, but it ends with Wolverine killing her. Wolverine finds Stryker on a landing pad, while Stryker attempts to bargain Wolverine with stories of his past. Wolverine leaves him for dead, stabbing him and chaining him to the helicopter wheel. Mystique, disguised as Stryker, uses Jason to convince Professor X to kill all humans. Magneto and Mystique use Stryker's helicopter to escape Alkali Lake, chaining Stryker to concrete rubble, and are also joined by Pyro. Meanwhile, Nightcrawler teleports Storm inside of Cerebro, where she frees the Professor from his telepathic illusion. A malfunction aboard the X-Jet prevents it from taking off, and the dam finally bursts. The flood gets stronger, drowning Stryker. Jean activates the X-Jet's primary engines, before releasing the torrent of water down on herself but saves the day. Professor X tells the president that humans and mutants must work together to have peace, or they will destroy each other through war.
Cast
All the actors from the first part; play in the second part of the X-Men. They are Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Halle Berry as Storm, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, James Marsden as Cyclops, Anna Paquin as Rogue and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos as Mystique. The new opponent William Striker is played by Brian Cox.
Prizes and Reviews At the box office, X-Men 2 even surpassed its predecessor. The reviewers were quite sympathetic and certified the film as great entertainment quality. However the story line is sometimes hard to believe.
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