X-Men needs a reboot.

Rating: 3/10 (1 June 2009)

I hated this movie. I tried very hard to like it. But I reached a point about 40 minutes into it that I simply did not care to watch the rest. I did, and regretted it.
Wolverine, as portrayed in this film, is one of the least compelling characters in the comic book universe. You find yourself not caring what happens to him by the end; this is troublesome for a movie that was trying to give you a back story to a very interesting character first introduced in the original X-Men movie.
Worst, he is overshadowed by some very interesting characters, most notably Gambit. They could have called this X-Men Origins: Gambit and left most of it intact, even though Gambit himself is on screen for a very short period.
I could keep going on; dialog is poor, camera-work is shoddy, the special effects are particularly bad for a high budget film, there are too many characters, and there really is no point to watching what happens to Wolverine.
Skip it. Catch it on FX, but only if there's nothing else on.
Michael