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Wolverine Loses His Claws |
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Written by JORDAN BRANDES
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 |
Some recipes just shouldn’t be messed with. Although the X-Men films were never top quality filmmaking they at least did justice to the characters and the universe. With X-Men Origins: Wolverine the entire series gets shot to hell. In the comics Wolverine is a natural tough guy with a mysterious past. He has an indestructible exo-skeleton and the ability to heal from just about any wound. His lone wolf side is amplified by the fact that giant adamanteum claws shoot out of his hands at will. Wolverine is someone you did not want to mess with. Until now.
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“X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
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Rated: PG-13
Released: May 1, 2009
Directed by: Gavin Hood
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Ryan Reynolds
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine tells the story of the boy named James Logan who would become the X-Men called Wolverine. Oddly, the story is not as interesting as you may think. The film opens with a masterful sequence involving Wolverine and his half-brother Victor Creed (and also virtually immortal) fighting in every major war since the early 1800’s. That is until his bloodthirsty brother decides to unleash his animal catlike animal instincts on his own men in the middle of the Vietnam War. Creed will later become the villain Sabertooth
Enter William Stryker (the villain from X2) who is putting together a band of mutant mercenaries for his own private purposes. Dubbed Team X the group is made up of Marvel favorites Deadpool (Wade Wilson/Ryan Reynolds) Wraith (Black Eyed Peas’ Will.I.am in his first acting role) The Blob and Bolt. All very interesting characters and every single one of them is underused.
After an altercation with his fellow comrades in the jungles of Nigeria Wolverine goes lone wolf and heads to the backwoods of Canada to live with his girlfriend Kayla Starfox. It is only a matter of time before the bloodthirsty Creed goes after Logan and kills Starfox in his place. This leads Logan back into the world of Team X and down the path that turns him into Wolverine.
Along the way we meet a young Cyclops (pre-Prof. X) and a card playing Creole named Gambit. Those that are familiar with the comics know that Gambit is a key part of the X-Men and a fan favorite. And yet he feels wedged into the film, as if they put him in their just because so many people had talked about seeing him on screen for so long. This is an action so, of course, Gambit and Wolverine must have a showdown. The result is one of the most laughable sections of the film. There are many times throughout the movie where you wonder if they made it that bad on purpose, to do so accidently would just be embarrassing.
By the time the movie has run out of clichés the audience is sufficiently bored. The only real purpose of the film, it seems, is to set up a franchise for other character origin stories. Though on-screen for only 10 minutes or so Ryan Reynold’s has already scored himself a Deadpool movie and I’m sure there is a Gambit one in the works. Let us hope that they are far better than this atrocity of a film.
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Written by Guest on 2009-05-14 15:27:17
Man f*ck y'all dat movie was ballin. |
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