What is X2 (movie)?
{{Infobox movie | name = X2 | director = [[Bryan Singer]] | producer = [[Lauren Shuler Donner]]<br />[[Ralph Winter]] | writer = '''Comic Books:'''<br />[[Stan Lee]]<br />[[Jack Rigby]]<br />'''Story:'''<br />[[Zak Penn]]<br />David Hayter<br />Bryan Singer<br />'''Screenplay:'''<br />[[Michael Dougherty]]<br />[[David Hayter]]<br />[[Bryan Singer]] | starring = [[Patrick Stewart]]<br />[[Hugh Jackman]]<br />[[Ian McKellen]]<br />[[Halle Berry]]<br />[[Famke Janssen]]<br />[[James Marsden]]<br />[[Rebecca Romijin]]<br />[[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]]<br />[[Alan Cumming]]<br />[[Bruce Davidson]]<br />[[Anna Paquin]] | distributor = [[20th Century Fox]] | released = May 2, 2003 | runtime = 133 min. | country = United States | language = English | music = John Ottman | cinematography = Newton Thomas Sigel | editing = [[John Ottman]]<br />[[Elliot Graham]] | budget = $110-125 million }} '''''X2''''' (also marketed as '''''X2: X-Men United''''', and internationally as '''''X-Men 2''''') is a 2003 [[superhero]] [[movie]]. It was [[movie director|directed]] by [[Bryan Singer]]. It is a [[sequel]] to ''[[X-Men (movie)|X-Men]]'' (2000) and was followed by ''[[X-Men: The Last Stand]]'' (2006). == Plot == The movie opens with a [[Mutant (Marvel Comics)|mutant]] named [[Nightcrawler]]. He is at the White House and attempts to kill the [[President of the United States|president]]. At the last moment, a security guard shoots Nightcrawler, forcing him to run away. Meanwhile, [[Wolverine (comics)|Wolverine]] reaches a location called Alkali Lake, and does not find anything. He returns to [[Charles Xavier]]'s school for gifted students. [[William Stryker]], who hates mutants, uses this attack. He talks to the President, who then allows him to raid Charles Xavier's school for gifted mutants. Before he does this, he visits [[Magneto (comics)|Magneto]]. Magneto was the bad guy in the first movie and now is in jail. Stryker uses a fluid to make him talk about the school. Xavier attempts to find Nightcrawler. He uses a machine c