Tonight I went to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a spin off to the X-Men film trilogy telling the story about how everyone’s favourite mutant came to be. The film starts out with Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and his half brother Sabertooth/Victor Creed (Liev Scherieber) fighting in various wars over the past 200 years (they don’t age). Eventually they meet General William Stryker played by Danny Huston (Brian Cox in X2) who puts together an army of mutants, various things blow up, Logan and Victor become enemies and eventually Logan becomes the beast that is Wolverine. More things blow up and then the film ends.
This is basically a standard, dull action flick designed purely with the function of telling viewers how the character they had come to know and love became the way he is. The script is hugely un engaging and left me at the point in which I just wanted to leave. The acting is poor and the gags are cheesy, one of which involves Logan in a boxer ring with an obese mutant known as Blob. This scene was incredibly cheesy with cliché fat man gags designed towards the thick demographic.
Being a fan of the X-Men films I was rather disappointed with this film and I would defy anyone who would compare it to X2, a film which I still rank as a brilliant action flick. In all honesty it doesn’t feel at all like an X-Men film. It is more akin to yet another Rambo sequel and has the integrity of a direct to DVD Steven Segal film.
The only pleasure I got out of it was from watching the rather impressive 3 way fight atop a cooling tower between Wolverine, Sabertooth and Deadpool and also from the occasional cameo appearances of various other characters from the X-Men films.
Overall X-Men Origins: Wolverine was largely displeasing. Don’t bother. I have nothing else to say.
2 STARS
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