"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" Movie Review

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Hugh Jackman reprises the role that made him a superstar, as the fierce fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, adamantium claws, and a primal fury known as berserker rage. X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE stays true to the tone of the X-Men motion picture franchise, continuing the films' balance between spectacle and reality, while heightening the emotions and relationships.
The film also introduces a team of mutants, including several whose appearances in the movie series have been long anticipated. Movie audiences will meet Team X, a covert military cadre comprised entirely of mutants. Its members are: Wolverine; his brother Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth, a feral being of unimaginable power; Wade Wilson, later to be known as Deadpool, a high-tech mercenary skilled at swordplay; Agent Zero, an expert tracker and lethal marksman; Wraith, a teleporter; Fred J. Dukes, also known as The Blob, a morbidly obese and super-strong behemoth; and Bradley, who can manipulate electricity. Leading them is William Stryker, a figure introduced in "X2" but whose origins and motives are now fully explored, for it is Stryker's complex relationship with Wolverine that defines much of Logan's past ...and future.
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE also explores Logan's tragic romance with Kayla Silverfox. Kayla's fate triggers Logan's involvement with the ominous Weapon X program, a top secret, billion-dollar military experiment, in which Wolverine and other mutants are key players. They include Gambit, a young Scott Summers (later to be known as Cyclops); a beautiful young mutant named Emma Frost; and the aforementioned Deadpool, against whom Wolverine faces his ultimate challenge.
While the three previous X-Men films were set in the not-too-distant future, the main story of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE - as the saga's first chapter - is set prior to the events of those pictures, in the not-too-distant past, sometime in the 1970s. But the epic sweep of the new film also encompasses flashbacks that span 150 years. It has a scale and ambition new to even this high-reaching series. "We wanted to exceed expectations in every way," sums up star and producer Hugh Jackman. "We couldn't just make a very good movie; it had to be much more than that."
To that end, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE provides a great roller coaster ride of adventure and action, while tapping into complex themes and rich and powerful emotional conflicts that have been hallmarks of the X-Men films. "Yes, the film needs to be visually stunning, and the action has to be amazing and hard-hitting," says director Gavin Hood, whose 2005 film "Tsotsi" won the Academy Award® for best foreign language film. "But you've also got to buy into the story and characters. The core idea of the film is that it's about someone who is not comfortable with who he is, who's at war with his own nature. That's an interesting character to explore. The theme of being at war with one's own nature, fuels and energizes the film so it becomes more than just action for its own sake."

(From 20th Century FOX)

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[silencesoloud12]

How much did they pay you to give this a good review?

[mdelar]

@silencesoloud12 Oh I wish Fox would pay me, but I just enjoyed the film...perhaps I was in a good mood when I saw the film :) But truth be told, I enjoyed the action sequences, and at the end of the day, this film belongs in that category...

[ahuerta808]

haha! i like that manny guys accent!

[mdelar]

@ahuerta808 :) thx! have a great weekend

[Trekfreek]

@glinxz Haaaaa Haaaaaa, You Make me Laugh. Just because it does not have the "fireworks" you like does not mean it's a bad movie. Also this movie was a big enough hit to make the next origins movie with Magnito and Profesor X. People like you must learn to (A) not get angry just because someone disagrees with you and (B) Realize it's not taboo to not like a good movie. I don't like "The Last Emperor" and it really is a good movie.

[TheErick010]

The story of this movie was great and all but if you se closlye the

special efects are not as good as the past movies and for me thats what

made it a litlle stupid they shoud have done much better...

[superhuman295]

@GemaGalor the most insulting PREQUEL in the series, thanx

[GemaGalor]

@superhuman295 ,..its a prequel

[Trekfreek]

@diGitD0cter You forget three things. One Dead Pool's swards are implanted; they could break off to make his famous swards. Two after the fight Dead-Pool’s mouth came open, three Dead Pool is still alive, just two little tweaks and presto the Dead pool you love is back.

[diGitD0cter]

this movie was very fun to watch but totally killed the characters from the comic especially deadpool

[superhuman295]

the most insulting sequal in the series

[RappaBitch]

@snuhr its kinda dumb to add cyclops in there because since its 20yrs before and scott is 16 or something like that he'd be 35-36 by the time the x men movies happen :P

[rexappel]

manny u mad this movie look good.. if i never seen it i wouldve thought this



[pinaasamoh14]

coolmate. reveiw the movie.....

.suplado

[a2k131]

Movie is great storyline shows other like zero,Deadpool,victor before becoming a villian also others hunting him down gambit is from new oreleans bourbon street gambler and card player also is good with kinectic powers which would make defender also shows a lot of mutants as they were growning up and colonnel styriker experments with them look closer the storyline goes deeper than just wolvernie