X2
Reception

X2 (2003)

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7.5
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 879,717 votes
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7.4/10 616,239 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 7.8/10 682 votes Synced 2026-07-16
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Audience 8.5/10 Synced 2026-07-16
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7.0/10 11,175 votes Synced 2026-09-18

External reviews

Michael O'Sullivan · Washington Post 90.00/100.00

The fantastic and at times deliciously nihilistic world of X2 is fully, believably three-dimensional.

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Gregory Weinkauf · Dallas Observer 90.00/100.00

A diverting mix of insight and spectacle, human and superhuman. This machine is built for kids, but rarely do words like "noble," "Hollywood" and "rawkin'" all apply to one movie.

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Marc Savlov · Austin Chronicle 89.00/100.00

An altogether more viscerally engaging film, from its relentless pacing and slam-bang effects work to the fine, appropriately heroic score by John Ottman. That the movie has an obvious gay subtext neither adds nor detracts from the film’s smashing popcorn appeal.

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Lawrence Toppman · Charlotte Observer 88.00/100.00

A follow-up with as much artistic integrity, complexity, humor and well-designed action as the original.

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Glenn Kenny · Premiere 88.00/100.00

One of the things that makes this movie such a great rush is that while you’re watching it, it seems a good deal more subversive than it really is.

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Michael Sragow · Baltimore Sun 88.00/100.00

Captures the feel of a first-rate comic book. It puts the pop back into Pop Art: It blows viewers away with a blast of kinetic energy.

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William Arnold · Seattle Post-Intelligencer 83.00/100.00

It also boosts the punch of the movie that so many of its action scenes evoke the Iraqi War news footage of the past month, and the "X-Men" premise -- people persecuted because their difference makes them seem threatening -- carries even more relevancy and weight than it did three years ago.

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David Edelstein · Slate 80.00/100.00

My chief complaint is that these mutants are a little--well, vanilla. I wish the X-Men had a touch of kinkiness to go with their weird abilities.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum · Entertainment Weekly 83.00/100.00

X2 sparkles with a lightness of spirit that was missing from ''X-Men.''

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Todd McCarthy · Variety 80.00/100.00

About twice as good as the original...bigger and more ambitious in every respect, from its action and visceral qualities to its themes.

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