Brian Cox

Brian Cox plays the mutant hunter Stryker in X2. Kim Newman, reviewing it in the archive, calls that playing a delicious devilry and writes that the character joins the function of two separate comic-book figures in one person. Richard Kelly's piece on Troy says the screenplay brings forward Agamemnon's hunger to rule, and ties the part to him. Graham Fuller uses him as a bridge: he recalls that the man playing Melvin Belli in Zodiac had earlier brought to life a paedophile in Michael Cuesta's L.I.E. A second piece by Newman is negative, saying the film it treats wastes him and a fellow actor in ordinary parts. That part in L.I.E. brought a nomination as well: His name is on Film Independent's male lead list for 2002.