director: Gavin Hood
writers: Skip Wood, David Benioff
starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber
genre: Action, Comics
I knew from the start that this was going to be bad. I'm sad to say I paid money for this. But as a Wolverine and comics fan what else could I do? I had to see it on the big screen and see for myself how garbage is. What I got was bigger mess than I expected.
After the X-Men films everybody wondered how on earth did Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) become who he is. Well we find out here in the original film that he was born in Canada and his brother is Sabertooth/Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber). Together they have year by year survived and fought in almost every war imaginable. Until they can’t run anymore and the government catches up on them. Stryker (Danny Huston) the menacing villain from X-2 here younger recruits the both of them to be in the Weapon X program to do great things as he says. After a while of them being on the team. Wolverine fed up with the atrocities the team is committing, leaves to a quiet life in Canada with the woman he loves. But he's soon too find out that your past always crawls up to bite you in the ass.
Bad development of the story is the films biggest problem. The way the film progress is annoying. The film never stays in one place either time wise, character or location wise. The whole story of Wolverine and Sabertooh as the fighting brothers is told threw the credits. We never get to see them truly bond instead they just break up and we feel indifference to the fact. It’s that things happen for various reasons but happen in such quick manner to the fact as if they were rushing to produce the film in time. Which is probably the reason. There were many rumors before hand about the film being bad and thats why there were reshoots scheduled.
Another problem is not only narrative of the story but the films usage of far too many characters. The film is called Wolverine Origins. So why do we have Deadpool, Agent Zero, Bolt, Blob, Cyclops and Gambit in the film? These characters were not needed to see Wolverine's pain of losing a loved one or even to see him kill people in berserker rage in cool action scenes. Some of characters yes could be used but were not necessary. They were put there for obvious reason for fodder so they cash on toys, tickets and shove it to fans faces. Also the film has a couple of plot holes concerning the other X-men films. In the first X-Men film Sabertooh and Cyclops have no recollection of their early meeting. Cyclops doesn’t remember hearing about a Wolverine who the one who saved him from mutant prison and Xavier who reads minds didn’t sense Wolverine and doesn’t know who he is when he reads his mind in the X-Men films. Sorry to spoil it for you but hes in the film.
Its weird how that David Benioff who is one of the writers of the film is said to be a comic book fan. Well let me just say that if he is a comic book fan he dosent have enough respect for the material which he is writing for. We saw this with his script for Troy which he really paid no attention to Homer's story. The film takes too many liberties from the original material and doesn’t make any changes that either useful to the story or that were problematic. The changes only make fanboys like me mad and drag the film down. If the changes were done to make a better film I can understand. This happened with Stryker in X-Men 2. He was a reverend in the comic not a military commander. But I enjoyed the change because it helped the film to be better. Here they shove Gambit into Wolverine origins for no apparent reason. He was never in the origins of Wolverine in the comics and was not needed. The only reason he's in there is not to make a better film but to sell more tickets and say to the fans look we put Gambit and how cool is his powers even though he was not needed and could have invented a new character to be Wolverine sidekick for some parts of the film.
It’s sorry to say that this not going to change. People with no respect for comics or who have no idea how to create a good story based upon a graphic novel are making these films. Even getting the guy who made Tsotsi isnt going to make a difference. You need a Nolan who is a serious director or a Zack Snyder who respects the material and trys to make you feel apart of the experience. Instead we get a mess of characters, action scenes that are over the top and the worst of the X-Men films.
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Review by Paul
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