X-Men Origins - Wolverine
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.
This film marks an unsatisfying return of everyone's favorite feral mutant, Wolverine. He does come back to give you more ass-whooping, but in a film that is as predictable, boring and unneeded. Serving as a prequel and 'origins' for the title character, it doesn't actually give you interesting back-stories about him especially ones that totally rips from other superheroes like Spider-man and Superman.
Jackman always appears onscreen either screaming at the top of his lungs or shirtless for you girls to ogle. Schreiber kept in one tone for his voice. And with a huge lineup of mutant characters, they were all wasted only to be yanked out the movie after twenty seconds on screen. Gambit (who is my favorite X-Men character) was totally mis-casted and was just there for a few seconds. Cyclops was totally not needed in this film. Ryan Reynolds' character Deadpool was given the most injustice of all treatments, only to be set up nicely in the beginning and just take away his mouth and turn himself into a pathetic toybot controlled through a video-game console.
If you have to see it , go and see it. But you won't get anything new or meaningful from this latest installment of the X-Men franchise. Its too bad everytime I see Hugh Jackman, I see him with a top hat and cane, tap dancing with mutton-chops.
2 out of 5 stars
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