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Unfortunately, X2 makes the mutants so menacing that I actually had quite a bit of sympathy for the military "fanatics". No individual has any business building a machine that could kill every normal person or mutant in the world just as no individual has any business owning their own multi-megaton nuclear weapon in the real world. Arms for personal defense? Sure. The ability to exterminate hundred, thousands, millions, or even billions with a twitch? No.

If there were a school for gifted children in New York that armed the students with full-automatic assault rifles and had a doomsday atomic bomb capable of killing over half the population of the world in the basement, you better believe I'd support a milary raid. Those mutants in that movie proved that they were everything that the bad guys feared they were. Even the good guys to a degree.

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Unfortunately, X2 makes the mutants so menacing that I actually had quite a bit of sympathy for the military "fanatics".

Exactly how were they menacing?

If there were a school for gifted children in New York that armed the students with full-automatic assault rifles and had a doomsday atomic bomb capable of killing over half the population of the world in the basement, you better believe I'd support a milary raid.

Did you even watch the movie? The students were not given arms, as you describe, they were born that way. And furthermore, they were simply sitting there, on private property, not hurting anyone or even planning on hurting anyone. Did you have sympathy the ATF thugs at Waco as they incinerated women and children too? In the actual movie, the one who was using this machinery to kill was Stryker, the GOVERNMENT agent. You might try watching the movie, you might learn something...JFK

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Interesting take.

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Unfortunately, X2 makes the mutants so menacing that I actually had quite a bit of sympathy for the military "fanatics".

Unfortunately? That aspect of the situation helps raise the movie above the simplistic good-guys-beat-up-bad-guys level.