As A Wolverine Fan, What A Kick In The Nuts This Was

Rating: 3/10 (27 September 2014)

In a nutshell, "X-men Origins: Wolverine" butchered everything that the true origin had explained in the comic books. But I'm all for taking apart and embellishing certain elements for the sake of a cinematic adaptation.
But just "because", I feel the need to say this: 1. Wolverine & Sabertooth were never brothers, and this really doesn't even add that much to the story they tell. 2. "Weapon X" only ever consisted of Wolverine, Dead-Pool, Omega-Red & Sabertooth. The pointless additions of Will.I.Am, and "The Blob" (For some reason they show him skinny which never was the case, hence the name) added nothing in the scenes they were all together in. And finally, 3. Is the pointless addition of characters such as Gambit, Emma Frost, and Cyclops who don't belong in this story and again did nothing while on screen.
Hugh Jackman I will admit is still fantastic in the lead role, and definitely stands out as the superior actor of all this mess. I usually love Liev Schreiber, but his character really needed development and then I might of actually cared for what they were trying to portray. The choreography is actually really good in these fight scenes, and with martial artist Scott Adkins in the finale make for some wonderfully unique moments. But aside from those small good aspects, everyone else is horrible. There the same villain stereotypes we have seen in previous instalments, and none of them manage to pull it off as well.
Final Verdict: A hit & miss action flick that mostly misses. It's bland fun, but definitely not one of my recommendations. I just cannot believe that Gavin Hood, the man responsible for the fantastic foreign language picture "Tsotsi" (2005), was responsible for this. 3/10.