“I think this movie was made just so they could make a good trailer.”
— Crystal
A perfect one-line review for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Worse than Spider-man 3, X-Men: The Last Stand, or Daredevil this was, and those are fightin’ words. Though it did manage to have lots of cool moments, hence the trailer comment. It had far more moments featuring horrible dialogue, shitty CG (his claws looked AWFUL), and embarrassingly cheesy moments (we are treated to at least two shots of Logan looking up at the camera/sky and yelling, and there were a number of times where he or Victor had a close-up growly face that got some LOLs).
Also, were they even trying to make this fit in with the continuity the other three movie have set up? It looks like maybe they were but there was so much more they could have done, and tons that they shouldn’t have.
I know it’s a comic book movie but the X-Men film-world has been established as based in a sort of reality where as long as you accept mutants and the occasional more-than-natural thing like adamantium, everything else is normal. Not so anymore. Imagine if you will a large, solid door. Wolverine takes his three claws and cuts through diagonally in a straight line. He then does the same in a perpendicular line (forming an X). That’s fine and all, except that there is a grid of metal squares in the middle of this that should fall, because, you know, gravity. Instead, the shot lingers for a moment where nothing happens, and then he busts through. This is the only example that comes to mind, but things like this happened throughout.
There’s also the horrible inconsistency of his powers, but even the first three were bad about this. If the moment calls for him to be injured for a minute then he will be, if his entire body is literally being ripped apart but we need a dramatic moment, he will insta-heal.
All of that said, I went into this knowing it would suck so I wasn’t upset. It managed to be even worse than I was expecting though. I hear a sequel is in the works. His origins story was fully told in this one, the state he’s left in at the end of this movie is exactly as we find him in X-Men, just a different location. The sequel could only exist to have him on some pointless action adventure, with some other mutants thrown in a wasted for comic effect.
D+ (for some cool action scenes and Ryan Reynolds’ bit before they criminally neutered him)
