Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 250
Fresh: 92 | Rotten: 158
Though Hugh Jackman gives his all, he can't help X-Men Origins: Wolverine overcome a cliche-ridden script and familiar narrative.
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
PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.
Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
May 1, 2009 Wide
Sep 15, 2009
$179.7M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (251) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (94) | Rotten (164) | 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.
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.
Wolverine's backstory was good stuff -- but after the falling out with Schreiber, the story loses its center and it gets wobbly.
I was definitely disappointed.
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.
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.
delivers on your basic superhero elements
I haven't been this disappointed by a film since the new Indiana Jones.
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.
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.
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.
Entertainingly testosterone-fueled.
You're going to be really underwhelmed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hey, it won't win any awards but it does the trick...
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.
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, 2008Super Reviewer
A really good cast and interesting story made it worth watching and I definitely feel like I know the characters more (coming from a non comic reader or X-men fan) so for me it was good and kept my attentions but I don't know how a hard core fan would feel. It did get a bit obvious and draining to watch towards then
April 13, 2009Super Reviewer
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