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X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 252
Fresh: 95 | 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: 48
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 39

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

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All Critics (253) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (97) | 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 | Comments (4)
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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
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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 (9)
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I was definitely disappointed.

May 4, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies
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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
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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
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January 8, 2013 Full Review Source: McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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Straight off the bat: this movie features more shots of muscle-bound men looking up at the camera and yelling "RAAWWWRGH!" than any other I can remember. It's the shoutiest film of the year.

September 29, 2012 Full Review Source: TheShiznit.co.uk
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delivers on your basic superhero elements

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

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

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

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)
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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

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
Cinema Autopsy

Entertainingly testosterone-fueled.

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

You're going to be really underwhelmed.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Movies.com
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
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
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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
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
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
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Hey, it won't win any awards but it does the trick...

October 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comments (2)
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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

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Hugh Jackman gives an outstanding performance to shroud the fact X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a simplistic and safe film that doesn't really execute as much as the X-Men franchise. The script touches on familiar grounds and different landscapes but still doesn't surpass the impact the X-Men trilogy had. 3.5/5
September 24, 2012
Eugene Bernabe

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    1. John Wraith: [Motioning to Remy LeBeau] There's our dude. [Sees him shuffle cards and toss them in a stylish way] That's cool! [To Logan] I'll go cover the back in case he rabbits.
    2. Logan/Wolverine: I'm not gonna fight with him!
    3. John Wraith: [Sarcastically] Yeah, right...
    4. Logan/Wolverine: What? I get in fights with everybody?
    5. John Wraith: Don't dogs kill cats?
    6. Logan/Wolverine: [Chuckles] Just go cover the back, will ya?
    – Submitted by Kiakahi M (4 months ago)
    1. Logan/Wolverine: Is there even a stretcher big enough to take this guy outta here?
    2. John Wraith: [Rings the bell, Fred knocks Logan on the pole] [To Logan, smirking] It ain't him I'm worried about getting outta here on a stretcher.
    3. Logan/Wolverine: [In pain, smirking] You're an asshole!
    4. Fred Dukes: Come on, Logan!
    5. John Wraith: [Rings bell again, to Logan] Whup his ass!
    6. Logan/Wolverine: [To Fred] You want it? [Cracks him in the belly with no effect]
    7. John Wraith: Dance with him, Fred!
    8. Fred Dukes: [To Logan] You wanna dance, brother? [Logan punches him in the gut again] Oh, that feels good. [Logan repeatedly cracks him in the belly] Hey, guess what? [Clotheslines Logan]
    9. John Wraith: [To Logan, smirking] Oh, so you gonna talk now? You got him right where you want him!
    10. Logan/Wolverine: [On the ground, wincing] Whose side are you on, anyway?
    – Submitted by Kiakahi M (5 months ago)
    1. John Wraith: [To Logan, in his office] Whatever you do, DON'T mention his weight. [Later, in the boxing arena] Come on, Fred! You wanna get in shape, you gotta move, man! [To Logan] I told him he gotta move! He--
    2. Logan/Wolverine: [Sees Fred's sparring partner flying at them, ducks] Whoa! [Stares at Fred, whispers to John] Fred Dukes? That looks like the creature that ATE Fred Dukes!
    3. John Wraith: [Whispering] Hey, be nice, man.
    4. Logan/Wolverine: Hey, fat--Fred, um... [Jokingly remarks about Fred's stretched out tattoo on his arm] I seem to remember that girl when she was about 85 pounds, huh?
    5. Fred Dukes: [Looks at arm, sarcastically] Oh, that's funny. You're still so funny, Logan.
    6. Logan/Wolverine: You know where Victor is?
    7. Fred Dukes: ...No idea.
    8. Logan/Wolverine: What's the island, 'Slim'?
    9. Fred Dukes: [Walks away, upset] ...Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Logan.
    10. Logan/Wolverine: Listen, I ain't leaving here until you tell me where victor is, now, c'mon, Bub, for old times' sake, huh?
    11. Fred Dukes: [Turns around, angry] ...Did you just call me... Blob...?
    12. Logan/Wolverine: ...No, but--[Dukes yells and charges Logan, sending him flying out of the ring]
    13. John Wraith: I told you not to mention his weight. Now why'd you call him "Blob"?
    14. Logan/Wolverine: [On the ground, in pain, angry] I didn't call him "Blob"! I said 'Bub'!
    – Submitted by Kiakahi M (5 months ago)
    1. Logan/Wolverine: [to Kayla] That story you told me... About the man who gets flowers for the moon. I had it backwards. I thought you were the Moon and I was your Wolverine... But you're the Trickster, aren't you? I'm just the fool who got played. Worst part of it is I should have known... And I ignored my instincts... I ignored what I really am... That won't ever happen again...
    – Submitted by Kiakahi M (5 months ago)
    1. Col. William Stryker: Your country needs you!
    2. Logan/Wolverine: I'm Canadian.
    – Submitted by Karthi K (9 months ago)
    1. Logan/Wolverine: That looks like the creature that ate Fred Dukes!
    – Submitted by Howard M (13 months ago)

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