X-Men Origins: Wolverine Review

It's that time of the season. The world is getting greener, the birds are singing a little louder, and the sun is shining a little brighter.

It can only mean one thing, the season for big budget action films has almost arrived.

Wolverine seems to be the first of the big budget action flicks to arrive and it's a decent movie.

Now, Wolverine has everything you could hope for in terms of action. There are wonderfully redonkulous fight sequences, good special effects, and as you may have noticed in the trailer there is a scene where wolverine jumps at a Helicopter and takes the whole thing down.

If you walk into the theater expecting to see some really cool fights, stunts, and effects then it is a really fun enjoyable movie.

That being said, it kind of failed in it's other obligations as a film.

You see X-Men, even in comic book form was designed to function as an ensemble cast. Sure some characters like Wolverine have some real back story or emotional depth. Yet it doesn't work very well when you have a feature length film about just one character. Sure we get to see a bit about Sabretooth, Cyclops, and Gambit; but there were so many times in the movie when I was more interested in their back stories then I was with Wolverines.

Don't get me wrong Hugh Jackman is a very competent leading man, I blame this on the scrip and how the writer decided to portray Wolverine.

Wolverine is the ultimate anti-hero. He is rough around the edges, doesn't really play by the rules, and often times he can be a real jerk; and that is what makes it so amazing when you see those few moments where he shows a softer side of Wolverine so special.

Naturally in this movie we are seeing Wolverine before a very major event happened to him in his life, so it is understandable that he his personality may be a bit different and perhaps more mild then usual. We get to see an understandably emo lovey-dovey Wolverine, and I just don't like it. I like Wolverine to be mostly grumpy but humorous, and although we did get some good comebacks from Wolverine there could have been more.

I felt like this movie would have been so much better if they occasionally veered away from the whole Wolverine Angst storyline, and took a break to tell us more about some of the other mutants. Some of the scenes felt forced, as if they had been written very quickly and not very well thought out. There were some plot holes, some places where emotions felt very forced, and some places where things just felt over the

The Bottom Line

This is a very fun entertaining movie to watch, but don't expect to be exactly blown away by Wolverines back story. I recommend watching it with your mind turned off, just enjoy the awesome fight scenes and you will will walk out of the theater a happy camper.