Seriously, do we see any similarities in these two promotional posters?

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Hey everyone, finally I will interject a review in the middle of the Friday the 13th marathon.  I break the silence with X-Men Origins: Wolverine.  We get the back story from everyone’s favorite X-man.  We discover what tortuous past leads Logan to inject indestructible metal into his bones and become Wolverine.  He must battle the government, his arch-nemesis Sabertooth (brilliantly casted with Liev Schreiber) and mingle with many-a-mutant.  Forewarning, there will be spoilers if you keep reading…

What’s good about it…

All the action you could want from a superhero movie: lots of cool fights and lots of shout outs to the fans.  This is really a fan movie; I mean, we finally get Gambit and even though he was a little silly–I finally got to see his STAFF SLAM ATTACK!  The real story though comes with Sabertooth and Wolverine…that is probably the weightiest part of the film and what I was most interested in.  I also loved seeing Wolverine with the team of mutants that Stryker teamed up (harkening to the teams we have seen in the other films). We see some favorites like Blob, Bolt, Deadpool, Cyclops, and many others.  It redeems somewhat the time I wasted with X-men 3. 

What is not so good…

If you are not  an X-men fan, then this will seem as a sloppy film.  It interjects so many fights that it really gets more repetitive than exciting.  The story is far too complicated (his girl is killed, then not killed, then working for the enemy, then back with Wolverine, then killed again).  The story is with Sabertooth and Wolverine…that is where it should have stayed; forget this weird Deadpool mutant hybrid storyline.  They really don’t even explore Wolverine as Weapon X–which is why he cannot remember anything (not because of a stupid adimantium bullet lobotomy…that was really lame).  They could have done fine making this a Weapon X story, but it was more of a Wolverine story. 

I give it a C-.  There are several reasons why this isn’t a spectacular movie.  They toned down the really intense stuff (it’s PG-13), they spent too much time trying to give fans what they wanted, and Hugh Jackman produced.  But they at least created a story that was true to the characters and that seemed to add to the other X-men films without repeating too much or killing off beloved characters.  My biggest critique about X-men films is that it should always be about the team, and not about the individual–but alas, I still enjoyed this film.