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X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 248
Fresh: 91 | Rotten: 157

Though Hugh Jackman gives his all, he can't help X-Men Origins: Wolverine overcome a cliche-ridden script and familiar narrative.

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 35

Though Hugh Jackman gives his all, he can't help X-Men Origins: Wolverine overcome a cliche-ridden script and familiar narrative.

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The gruff, adamantium-clawed Marvel superhero Wolverine strikes out on his own in this X-Men spin-off starring series regular Hugh Jackman. The story gets under way as the boy who will become Wolverine makes a shocking discovery about his family bloodline, and gains a brother in the process. Flash forward to find the mutant siblings battling side by side through two world wars and Vietnam -- where they are sentenced to death for killing a commanding officer -- and Logan (Hugh Jackman) and his

Sep 15, 2009

$179.7M

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (248) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (93) | Rotten (163) | DVD (24)

You won't be upset you saw it, you'll have some fun, you'll see Wolvie beat the living hell out of a helicopter.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment (1)
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Did the plot points stick in my head five minutes after leaving the theater? Not so much ... but I know I was having fun while watching.

May 6, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
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Wolverine's backstory was good stuff -- but after the falling out with Schreiber, the story loses its center and it gets wobbly.

May 4, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comments (7)
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I was definitely disappointed.

May 4, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment
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Alas, there's nothing quite memorable here: much of the combat is just a whirl of movement photographed up close. As the X-Men series has progressed, the startling poetic extravagances of the first film have given way to flesh-pounding clumsiness.

May 4, 2009 Full Review Source: New Yorker | Comment
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How does all this play out for those of us -- i.e., me -- who have not been staying up nights fretting over the origins of the X-Men and Women? The answer is: Fairly well.

May 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | Comment
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delivers on your basic superhero elements

March 2, 2011 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

I haven't been this disappointed by a film since the new Indiana Jones.

March 1, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment

Unfortunately, the special effects vary from impressive to embarrassing, and some additional trimming at the story level might have helped elevate the metallurgical rating to steel status.

July 16, 2010 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment (1)
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Despite the film's necessarily lengthy exposition, Wolverine's back-story seems thinner and less compelling than the Logan-heavy, previous X-Men films had hinted at.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Future Movies UK | Comment

It is not as good as the second X-Men film but it is on par with the first and an improvement over the third.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Autopsy | Comment
Cinema Autopsy

Entertainingly testosterone-fueled.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

You're going to be really underwhelmed.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Movies.com

It's just too bad a movie sharp enough to rip through flesh and helicopter blades and nuclear-reactor smokestack walls has to feel so disappointingly dull.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

While Wolverine contains several nice fight scenes and a couple of enjoyable action sequences, one can't help but feel that it thoroughly wastes Jackman.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com | Comment
Bullz-Eye.com

Reported to be the one thing missing in-part from the leaked workprint, sadly many of the special effects in X-Men Origins: Wolverine are somewhat sub-standard.

April 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire | Comment
Fan The Fire

The serious tone established by Bryan Singer in 2000's X-Men is almost completely obliterated, reducing the film to the level of any another by-the-numbers franchise entry.

December 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | Comment
Cinefantastique

This clunky, silly prequel, in which every chapter represents another genre, does not even make an effort to have balance between story and spectacle, characters and special effects.

December 7, 2009 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Hey, it won't win any awards but it does the trick...

October 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

Hugh Jackman is brilliant. He nails this character like nobody's business. He *is* Wolverine. He's just Wolverine in need of a better movie.

September 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com | Comment
Needcoffee.com

Packed with claw-shredding action and adventure, the film more or less delivers what it promises. The problem lies with what it promises.

September 23, 2009 Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | Comment
CinemaBlend.com

It's funny how much I'll forgive just to watch Jackman play this raging mutant again.

September 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | Comment
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Audience Reviews for X-Men Origins - Wolverine

Wolverine, Deadpool, lots of action . .i enjoyed this from start to finish. Lots of more hard core comic people may have not liked it. I on the other hand not being one of them loved it.

June 6, 2008
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

I just didn't seem to click onto the film, all-be-it there is some darn good action and some good choices in the line of casting but, I didn't seem to warm to it. Although I didn't fully follow the film, there is some credit where it's due, just struggling to put the credit in most places.

October 25, 2011
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Scott Green

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    1. Logan/Wolverine: All I ever wanted was to travel to far off exotic places, meet new exciting people and then kill them. So I become a mercenary. My name is Wade Wilson. And I love what I do.
    – Submitted by Laura F (31 days ago)
    1. Logan/Wolverine: Are you Remy LeBeau?
    2. Remy LeBeau/Gambit: Do I owe you money?
    3. Logan/Wolverine: No.
    4. Remy LeBeau/Gambit: Then Remy LeBeau, I am.
    – Submitted by Geraldo G (32 days ago)
    1. Col. William Stryker: Mutants. I don't hate them, I just know what they can do. You don't realize this, but we are at war. I took an oath: Protect this country. My name is William Stryker, and I am not a monster. I am simply a patriot.
    – Submitted by Geraldo G (32 days ago)
    1. Col. William Stryker: Your country needs you!
    2. Logan/Wolverine: I'm Canadian.
    – Submitted by Elliott B (6 months ago)
    1. Victor Creed/Sabretooth: I despise my humanity as much as you cherish yours. And I will come for you without mercy.
    – Submitted by Lea L (8 months ago)

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