I know that this entry will probably be as effective as talking to a wall, but nevertheless I intend to make a point, so here it comes, let us review:
If you know anything about
Wolverine, is probably that he has adamantium claws, he has a healing factor and he cannot remember how he came to be who he is: all he knows is from a dog tag around his neck which revealed the name
Logan.
In the movie we finally get some answers to how he became the man he is:
He is part of a task force for
William Stryker, along with his brother
Victor, who you will later recognize as
Sabretooth. In this team there are several others, who aren't really important except for one:
Wade Wilson, a highly skilled swordsman who talks to much and irritates everybody. When
Stryker turns out to be a bit deranged and tries to kill innocent people,
Logan tells them he is out. He starts a new life as a lumberjack, and shares his life with a woman,
Kayla. He feels finally happy, when
Victor shows up and kills
Kayla to force him to come back to work for
Stryker.
Logan gets mad and tries to track him down through their old team mates, so he can kill him, but
Stryker gets to him first and tells him that he can give him the tools to destroy
Viktor: make his bone claws into adamantiums. Unfortunately
Logan finds out that he was just a lab rat for
Stryker's ulterior plans and breaks out, only to find more mutants looked up and used for experiments, among them
Kayla, who was simply controlling his mind, because she was blackmailed by
Stryker who had her sister.
Logan helps them escape, and he has a showdown with
Stryker's experiment:
Deadpool - the ultimate mutant who has the abilities of all the other mutants
Stryker captured and he has the body of
Wade Wilson. The two fight,
Wade seems to be defeated and
Stryker shoots
Logan in the head, which causes him amnesia, but it doesn't kill him.
In the end we have a scene with
Deadpool who survived, originally
Ryan Reynolds was contracted by
Marvel for the next Origins movie, which was set on
Deadpool's story, but being cast for
DC's
Green Lantern he has released from the contract. As far as I know, no new actor has been cast yet.
What didn't work?
The biggest problem above all is that this movie was supposed to be a prequel to the
X-Men trilogy (read my review by clicking
here!), and on that level it completely fails.
Sabretooth was played by someone else in the original movies and he wasn't
Logan's brother, it clearly showed that they didn't know each other. Although previously the man who in
X2 was
Stryker appeared also on the
imdb cast list, but then was replaced by someone who looks nothing like the other actor, and not in the very least threatening. Not to mention that in the second movie we have a whole scene where we find out how
Logan got his claws and that is completely different from this story.
Another big fatal problem is the casting. It sucks.
Hugh Jackman is impeccable,
Liev Schreiber is a very good
Sabretooth (even if he doesn't resemble the one in the comics at all), and
Ryan Reynolds is a perfect
Deadpool. I am kind of sorry that he won't be playing him anymore. The story is also weak. So why do I like this movie? Very simple.
I like Wolverine.
I don't care if this was supposed to be a prequel, so is
X-Men: First Class, but that had a few holes as well, did anybody care? No, it was a big success. I also don't care that the story is so weak, because I liked the chemistry between
Logan and
Kayla. I've found it convincing and being a fan who simply wanted a love life for
Logan, without him stealing
Jean from
Scott, I was content. I am also interested in
Stryker: in the
Ultimate comic series he was also responsible for
Beast becoming blue and that pain he inflicted on them always made him a first class villain for me. At the end of the day I simply want a movie where
Logan flashes his claws and cuts helicopters and bad guys who are mean to mutants and I got all that. I also know that his has an immense heart and his constant anger was finally clear to me. I believe that
Hugh Jackman is a wonderful
Wolverine and the more movies I get with him the happier I am, so even if the story is going to be about him adopting puppies and fighting the mean people who use dogs for races, I'D STILL WATCH IT!! IT'S F*CKING
WOLVERINE!!! WE WANT MORE
WOLVERINE!! I WANT MORE
WOLVERINE!!!! (I also liked
Gambit!)
I don't think that the flaws can be overlooked, but I also don't think that this is the worst comic movie ever made (have you seen the old
Captain America's? Yeah, point made!), and I most definitely don't think that people should treat it as such. It is a perfect blockbuster for a movie night, it has both romance and action. Trust me, girls will be excited by
Hugh Jackman and the guys will enjoy the action and the mystery. T
his is one of those movies that you should judge on your own and not listen to other people's reviews!
So check it out, until the next item on my list!
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