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Wolverine, fan favorite of the X-Men universe in both comic books and film, gets his own movie vehicle with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a tale that reaches way, way back into the hairy mutant's story. Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, two boys grow up amid violence: half-brothers with very special powers. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors (and victims of a super-secret government program) known as Wolverine and Sabretooth, played respectively by Hugh Jackman (returning to his role) and Liev Schreiber (new to the scene). It helps enormously to have Schreiber, an actor of brawny skills, as the showiest villain; the guy can put genuine menace into a vocal inflection or a shift of the eyes. Danny Huston is the sinister government operative whose experiments keep pullin' Wolverine back in, Lynn Collins is the woman who shares a peaceful Canadian co-existence with our hero when he tries to drop out of the program, and Ryan Reynolds adds needed humor, at least for a while. The fast-paced early reels give an entertaining kick-off to the Wolverine saga, only to slow down when a proper plot must be put together--but isn't that perpetually the problem with origin stories? And despite a cool setting, the grand finale is a little hemmed in by certain plot essentials that must be in place for the sequels, which may be why characters do nonsensical things. So, this one is fun while it lasts, if you're not looking for a masterpiece, or an explanation for Wolverine's facial grooming. --Robert Horton
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By The Red Sultan (Nacogdoches, TX)
$7 and 107 minutes of my life I will never get back. OUCH!
It's titled "Origins" but it still leaves a number of those questions unanswered.
This one was just phoned in for the paycheck.
By M. Maharajh (USA)
Hands down the biggest let down of the summer. The plot holes in this movie are big enough to drive a truck through. Wolverine makes action driven movies like Transformers 2 look like Schindlers List.
Save your money.
By B. Redmond
This is, without-a-doubt, one of the worst movies produced in the last 10 years. Honestly, a 9-year-old could have wrote a better plot and better dialogue. This movie's plot has more holes than a battlefield after a bombing run and the production value is abysmal. The special effects look like they came out of the 80's. As a comic-book film, this movie is awful. As a general film, this movie is STILL awful. Seriously, I have never met a person in the real world who actually liked this piece of trash.
By Will
Not sure why some hate this movie so much. The movie and story is great. It breaks down the origin for people who are not comic book readers in a well-done way. If you were to get the entire origin on film, it would be a tv series not a movie. Action was great, Jackman was great, Sabretooth was great... The rest of the cast was good...
One problem I have with it is hollywood taking and changing an existing character to create a new one? You will see. Not sure why they do this when there are so many characters to chose from already.
By iTy (Nashville, TN)
Wow..I had such high hopes for this film. But it fell flat. Now I'm not a big comic book reader but even I know the wolverine story..AND HE DOESN'T LOSE HIS MEMORY FROM ADAMANTIUM BULLETS. The film wasn't too bad until the end. It wasn't spectacular or anything, but it wasn't horrible. I can overlook the shafting of sub-characters. But when you COMPLETELY re-write a main character, or a main villain...that's when it becomes ridiculous.
As previously mentioned...why they chose to erase Wolverine's memory by shooting him in the head with adamantium bullets...yeah I don't know. Why they chose to have dead pool not have a mouth...don't know. Why they chose to have wolverine have bone claws?!? ...yeah your guess is as good as mine. Heck you may as well have Cable and Apocalypse come back from the future and tag team with wolverine to take out Spiderman, Hercules, and Buzz Lightyear. I understand that certain things must change when adapting something from comics to film. I didn't even mind XMEN 3 when they completely re-wrote the phoenix story. That was because it needed to happen to make it filmable. Bone claws, a mouthless deadpool, and adamantium bullets were NOT needed. I can deal when they have to change things like have agent zero basically fly into a helicopter, or re-write the whole wolverine love affair thing...but when they add crap just to add crap...no..i'm sorry.
I've heard there is supposed to be a dead pool movie coming out...how are they going to manage that one? They are going to have to butcher the already butchered character to make something believable. I don't even want to think about it.
The only reason this movie didn't get one star is because I didn't walk out.
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