Wolverine Origins

Wolverine Origins


Fair Warning, this little fan girl is NOT HAPPY with the end result of this film. I do not know what they were thinking when making this film. I was VERY disappointed. Only thing worth seeing about it was Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Thank god for this one, because this film would be WORTHLESS otherwise. Cast is Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Ryan Reynolds, Director is Gavin Hood.

DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN what were they thinking? I was too angry at this film to even identify any sort of theme. All I could gather is they were trying to cash in telling a story about how Wolverine came about. There was not much for m to hold to.

As far as the story goes, I can give some leeway as far as that is concerned, SINCE Marvel Comics came up with the basic Storyline, and Hollywood did take their allowances here and there, but that is to be expected. Marvel spent a lot of time with this character, and has always done a good job at keeping people’s attention; otherwise there would have not been a movie.

The Plot went together in a normal fashion, but I expected more. MORE! There were a few surprises here and there, but nothing that stepped too much upon the plot itself… I just wish there was more involvement in the other superheroes around Wolverine. Wolverine was NOT the only superhero in this story, yet they barely spent enough time with them.

I still felt there could have been more character development in this story. In all honesty, I felt they were just dragging the story along without much development. I did not honestly believe Wolverine was in love with the leading female. Not through any fault of Hugh, but by the lack of acting from the other characters. I would have preferred some actors who would have been able to devote MORE into their characters to help out Hugh Jackman. Do NOT get me started on how I feel about the mediocre performance of GAMBIT. I really expected far better. Maybe they should have read an X Men Comic in order to understand his Character better.
As far as the little clues to the end result, I found they were too vague for the amateur comic fan. I only got the small little hints because I knew I should be looking for them.

Superhero films generally are a hard genre to fail in. The last two X Men films were quite close to failing, but still had retained their staying power. BUT this film has failed MISERABLY in my eyes. If Hugh Jackman were not in this film, average non –comic fans would be able to see this film for its relative horrific attempts and condemn it.

I give this film a .005 out of 5.