A rehash of the X-Men Trilogy!

Rating: 5/10 (7 May 2009)

This film was a major let down. Whilst it was interesting to see a few new characters, the main story overlapped far too much with the X-men trilogy. There are enough flash backs and back story given in those films that explained Wolverine's transformation - we didn't need a rehash of that. When clips where shown VERY briefly of the world wars I thought to myself: "Those are the films that I want to see". Instead we are teased by those and then treated to lots of story that we have already seen before. My other main gripe after the story is the bemusing certificate of 12A given to this film. Wolverine is one of the most violent of the comic book heroes and the BBFC (and to a lesser extent MPA) has a real thing about stabbing weapons. To release a film like this where fights regularly take place between a character with stabbing claws and one with stabbing nails is silly if you are not going to give it the age rating that it deserves. This should be in Sin City / 300 territory or at the very least should be a 15 cert here in the UK. There was a similar problem in LOTR & Transformers with very choppy editing to "hide" the gory moments but they had a good story and characters to make that more forgivable. Here we want to see Wolverine kick some comic book a$$, and I didn't think the film did enough to portray his violent side. Whether that was age rating or story driven, I will leave that up to you to decide... Hugh Jackman is great in the lead role and some of the effects are OK which is why this gets an average 5/10 from me. Overall - Could Do Better.