This is the week every X-Men/ Wolvie/ movie fan have all been waiting for (well, unless you cheated and downloaded the work version of the movie)… X-Men Origins- Wolverine was unleashed to movie goers every where! I almost did two reviews, one for the comic book reader, and another for the average movie goer. Instead, you will all have to bear through the same review.
Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed (who will later become Sabertooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program.
- From IMDB
First let me say, I have major issues with the description above, what in the world does “lives a mutant life” mean? Talk about vague?!?!
I digress, Hugh Jackman reprises his role as Wolverine a forth time to tell the story of how Wolverine came to be. After much debate in the comic book world about Wolverine’s connection to Sabertooth (played by Liev Schrieber who shocked me with an excellent performance in this movie) this movie is supposed to solve the questions- “are they related?” and “why do they hate each other well beyond the good guy, bad guy” roles. For that factor alone you should go see this movie (that is of course if you have no problem with the consistently inconsistent Marvel Universe).
The story starts off answering the question for you (some of you already know what happens, but others do not, so I will not spill the beans). The after the life changing event occurs, Logan and Victor (Sabertooth) fight side by side through numerous wars over time. Eventually the pair is caught after a mutiny and sentenced to execution. The pair lives through their sentence are they are drafted to join a group of mercenaries, the most notable of the mercenary crew is my favorite character Deadpool (played by Ryan Reynolds, and now I see why Alanis held on to him for so many years, and why Scarlett snatched him up so quick…by I digress again).
After Wolvie sees the crew is going in a direction he did not want to be a part of, he decides to leave. All is well until they want him back, so they send his old pal Sabertooth after him.
For the comic book fan, it is nice to see a few characters often ignored outside the Marvel Universe comic book pages (Emma Frost aka White Queen, Remy LeBeau aka Gambit, the Blob), but its sucks that the characters are used outside of situation there are often attributed in the comic books. The White Queen apparently does not have her telepathic abilities in this movie and she uses her most recent power of morphing into diamond in the film, which is out of the proper time frame since she only recently started using that ability. (Can you tell I am a fan of the White Queen as well?)
Some of the scenarios would have never happened of they stuck the the level of each mutant’s power in the comic book (Wolverine would have been able to sense a lot more is they would have played more into his heightened sense of smell, and the White Queen would have never been captured, and all of the mutants held with her could have gotten out of their prisons since they did not have collars preventing them from using their abilities).
This movie definitely sets the stage for the upcoming “X-Men Origins : Magneto” movie. The action is this movie will make audiences follow the “Origins” story line. This is a better attempt at a comic book movie than the horrible X-Men 3. (Please don’t get me started on that movie…)
Over all it is an entertaining movie. If you have never picked up a comic book you will probably love the movie…unless you are one of those people that hate Hugh Jackman.
It is much better than the “Dragon Ball” movie and “Chun Li” movie, so if you wasted your money on that crap, you should pay to see this movie. It is just as good as “Gone With The Wind” in comparison to the other two atrocities.
Rating- 4/6
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I liked it, but it wasn't great. I just have a lot of issue with the whole dude lives almost 200 year and we are only told a part of the story that EVERYONE already knew from reading the comics. And if you didn't read the comic, you didn't care about his origin anyway. I never read a lot of comics, but I borrowed the origin GN when it came out just to know Wolverine's origin etc. I wasn't impressed by that either. The REAL question should be what made Wolverine who he was WELL before Weapon X. I mean, if you lived almost 200 years, could you imagine your life
Also, Kitsch was terribly directed, buy some Creole for actors tape like in True Blood, learn some French phrases – Gambit is Creole and peppers his dialog with French, mon amies. Anyway, overall I enjoyed it but it wasn't Watchmen – FAR from it, really.
I agree, it definitely was NO “Watchmen”.
The debate was they were indeed related, but that was squashed in one
of the books…
Marvel has continuity issues…always has and always will.
This movie is definitely for Joe blow movie goer.
The action was fun, and Hugh Jackman's and Liev Schrieber's charisma carried the film, but they stunk up on the story itself so bad, I wouldn't recommend it to comic fans unless they wanted a reason to discuss their hatred in numbers.
LOL, I agree…
LOL, I agree…