The story of how Wolverine came to be.
Good but not great, more "Let Summer begin.", than "LET SUMMER BEGIN!!!". This movie just felt a little flat, not a lot of umph to it. It also feels more like X-Men 4 than an origin story of Wolverine. So many characters are thrown in and we don't get enough time with them. I was expecting a little more of James Logan, aka Wolverine, discovering who he is and that he's not alone as a mutant. Instead he seems to be fully aware of his kind from the beginning, way back in the 1800's. But that aside, the beginning is pretty good when we start to learn what makes him become the angry Wolverine. At times they quickly touch upon parts that could be very interesting, yet take a long time to get through other parts that seemed to already be partially explained in the X-Men movies, especially in part 2. As I said, they throw in a lot of extra characters and by the end it just felt like an excuse to get more mutants on the screen and make money off the X-Men name than a need to put a great story on screen. Also some of the special fx shots are poorly done. At times his claws look really fake and a few other scenes looked hastily put together. I also thought the look of the movie was a little too "clean", a little too green screen-ish, if that makes sense.
As always, stay for after the credits as it will set up more sequel-prequels. Apparently the origin story of Magneto is next. Here's hoping Star Trek steps it up next week.
**1/2 out of 4 - Rentable
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You thought more of this than I did. A waste of a costco ticket on another poor story riding the coattails of the 'beginnings' movies. Perhaps you could explain a few of the glaring holes, like
1) Why is Wolverine thought better of his older bro before the operation? Looked like big bro had no problem smacking him around to me.
2) Why would the "silver bullets" erase his memory? Possible answer, because at the last minute they forgot that he arrives in Xmen with no memory, and for no other reason.
The list can go on, but fortunately the show was mercifully short.
I don't think I can answer either question.
1) Like you said, Wolverine gets pounded by his bro before the operation. Maybe Striker knew the operation could potentially kill Wolverine, and he didn't want to take that risk with Victor?
2) Ya got me on the memory erasing bullets. Definitely sounds like a last minute excuse to make sure it links up to X-Men.
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