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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.
Packed with claw-shredding action and adventure, the film more or less delivers what it promises. The problem lies with what it promises.
It's funny how much I'll forgive just to watch Jackman play this raging mutant again.
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