When
a failed assassination attempt occurs on the President's (Cotter Smith) life
by the teleporting mutant Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), it's Professor Xavier
(Patrick Stewart) and his School for Gifted Youngsters who are targeted for
the crime. While Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and Storm (Halle Berry) try and
locate the assassin, Cyclops (James Marsden) and Professor X (Patrick
Stewart) seek answers from their old foe Magneto (Ian McKellan) in his glass
cell...Little do they know they're walking into a trap set by the villainous
William Stryker (Brian Cox), a mysterious governmental figure that figures
into Wolverine's (Hugh Jackman) secretive past, along with information about
the X-Men's operation, supplied by Magneto through a mind-controlling agent.
Meanwhile Wolverine, just home from a failed mission to regain his memory,
is in charge of the students when a crack-commando team led by Stryker
infiltrates the school by order of the President. With a mansion full of
young, powerful mutants and the ferocious Wolverine in babysitter mode, can
he defend the school against the one man who can answer his questions? What
roles do the sinister Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) and Lady Deathstrike
(Kelly Hu) have in all of this? Why does Stryker want Professor X and his
Cerebro machine? With the war between humanity and mutants escalating to
extremes, can the rest of the X-Men trust their old foes to help them?
Director Bryan Singer returns and raises the stakes in this sequel to the
highly lauded 2000 adaptation of Marvel Comics' X-Men.| Patrick Stewart | Prof. Charles Xavier |
| Hugh Jackman | Wolverine |
| Ian McKellen | Magneto |
| Halle Berry | Storm |
| Brian Cox | William Stryker |
| Famke Janssen | Jean Grey |
| Alan Cumming | Kurt Wagner, AKA Nightcrawler |
| Rebecca Romijn-Stamos | Mystique |
| James Marsden | Cyclops |
| Bruce Davison | Senator Kelly |
| Shawn Ashmore | Bobby Drake, AKA Iceman |
| Aaron Stanford | John/Pyro |
| Kelly Hu | Anne Reynolds, AKA Yuriko Oyama, AKA Lady Deathstrike |
| Anna Paquin | Rogue |
| Katie Stuart | Kitty Pryde |
| Kea Wong | Jubilee |
| Daniel Cudmore | Piotr Rasputin, AKA Colossus |
| Steve Bacic | Hank McCoy, AKA Beast |
| Stephen Spender | Smith |
| Cotter Smith | President McKenna |
| Charles Siegel | Dr. Shaw |
| Peter Wingfield | Lyman |
| Sideah Alladice | X-Kid |
| Connor Widdows | Jones |
| Jill Teed | Madeline Drake |
| James N. Kirk | Ronny Drake |
| Michael Reid Mackay | Jason 143 |
| Alfred E. Humphreys | Steven Drake |
| Jermaine Lopez | X-Kid |
| Dylan Kussman | Wilkins |
| Devin Douglas Drewitz | X-Kid |
| Keely Purvis | Little Girl 143 |
| Bryce Hodgson | Arthur "Artie" Maddicks |
| Nolan Funk | X-Kid |
| Ty Olsson | Mitchell Laurio |
Genre/Type - Fantasy, Action, Comic-Book Superhero Film, Sci-Fi Action
Produced by - Ames Entertainment / Bad Hat Harry / Donners' Co. / Marvel Studios
Release - May 2, 2003 (USA)
Released by - 20th Century Fox
Running time - 135 min.
Superman II (1980, Richard Lester)
Darkman (1990, Sam Raimi)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982, Nicholas Meyer)
Hellboy (2004, Guillermo Del Toro)
is followed by: X3: X-Men 3 (2006)
is preceded by: X-Men (2000, Bryan Singer)