Henry's Top 100: #34 - X2

For about a year this was my favorite super hero movie (before Spider-Man 2 came out). What's amazing about X2 is how while it does focus on Wolverine (played wonderfully by Hugh Jackson, or Huge Act-Man as Ben calls him) it also gives plenty of time to all of the cast. Nightcrawler, played by Alan Cummings, and Magneto, Ian Mckellen, really shine.

This also contains two of the better action scenes I can think of: The opener - Nightcrawler's White House assault, and Wolverine defending the mansion when Stryker's men invade (Ben wrote about that scene here)

I fear Bryan Singer has lost his way a bit, with Superman Returns being awful and the soon to be released Valkyrie having so many issues around it, but if nothing else he did make one of the great superhero films of all time along with one of the great crime movies ever made (we'll get to that one later...)

Best Scene? The Mansion Seige