X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Genre

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Director

Gavin Hood

Country

USA | UK

Cast

Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Will.i.am, Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand, Dominic Monaghan, Taylor Kitsch, Daniel Henney, Ryan Reynolds, Scott Adkins, Tim Pocock, Max Cullen, Julia Blake, Tahyna Tozzi, Aaron Jeffery, Peter O'Brien, Asher Keddie, Daniel Negreanu, Troye Sivan, Michael James Olsen

Plot

Two mutant brothers, Logan (Hugh Jackman) and Victor (Liev Schreiber), born 200 years ago, are fighters and killers, living from war to war through U.S. history. In modern times, Colonel Stryker (Danny Huston) recruits them and other mutants as commandos. After a while, Logan quits, becomes a lumberjack and falls in love with a local teacher (Lynn Collins). When Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker's crew, the Colonel sends Victor to kill the girl, and now Logan wants revenge.

Opinion

Wolverine has never been my favourite character, and he'll never be, but he was the best written and the best acted on the X-Men saga, so I was pretty excited about it.

Said that, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not bad, but it isn't even as good as it could have been, or as I was expecting it to be.

While the film is action packed, and the fights - involving Wolverine, Sabretooth and Deadpool - are great, the writing is very disappointing. I wonder how David Benioff and Skip Woods came up with the idea of a brotherhood between Wolverine and Sabretooth, or why Logan is halfway between the good guy and the beast. Also Gambit's character isn't developed at all, he just shows up for a while. And Logan's love story is pointless.

The acting is all great. Hugh Jackman keeps doing an excellent job with his Wolverine. Liev Schreiber does an incredible job portraying Sabretooth, delivering a true animalistic performance.

Quotes

Remy LeBeau/Gambit: See, the only difference between a winner and a loser is character. Every man has a price to charge, and a price to pay. Yeah, I've paid mine in spades.

Rating

6.5/10