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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 876245" data-attributes="member: 3570">I didn't have any problems following the story either, it was just that I found a number of the mini-stories to be more engaging than the overall story.  Mainly this just comes from slightly botched resolutions to the main story threads, IMO.Logan's last interaction with a chained up Stryker was ho-hum, Jean's sacrifice missed the mark mainly because of how the reactions of Cyclops and Logan were directed, and the whole "X-Men appear in the Oval Office to give the Pres some friendly words of advice" wrap-up was way too tidy and even a bit silly.This was a film where the journey of the characters was much more compelling than the destination, and that's too bad, because it would have been nice to see Singer knock this one out of the park.EDIT:  I also think the X-Men are at their best without a Gandalf-figure leading them around by the nose.  I loved the dynamic at the climax of X1 when Cyclops was in charge and trying to keep Wolverine in line.X2 once again incapacitated Professor X to somewhat facilitate this, but then replaced him with Magneto!  I loved the idea of the X-Men teaming up with former enemies, but they deferred to his leadership way too easily, and became borderline lackeys.All that was left for them to do was fight their respective showdowns.  Well, not totally, but the characters didn't come into their own the way I would have liked, or like they did in the first film.Sweet, sweet flick, the few disappointing directorial decisions just came at some pretty pivotal moments.</blockquote>

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