Do I look like a man who exaggerates?

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2009)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a triumphant follow-up to the third movie, The Last Stand where a lot of mutants were chucked in that they looked humans. It's a Gavin Hood film of characters, with characters. Because really, who can take another James Marsden?
Wolverine is apparently about Logan's history, and if I say history, it's literal. Little Logan (beforehand named Jimmy, no wonder he later changed it) and little Victor, brothers gifted with exoskeletons, enhanced senses, and regeneration live an average 1845 Canadian life. Only having been disowned after a family massacre, they trek the wages of war. The opening credits feature them all grown-up raiding the costume department as mercenaries. They are conveyed as brothers, and the director shows their tightness without even trying.
The director does his job in this one. He takes our eyeballs directly where the action starts. He pans the camera from the air and swiftly plummets it to the ground. Snips of the floor are blown but I want more.
The only thing funny in this movie is the casting: when I read Will.I.Am., Daniel Henny and "And Ryan Reynolds" in the beginning, I choke my chips. Reynolds is every teen guy's idol, of course but the "And" preceding His VandWilderness does not meet the expectations for his appearance. Taylor Kitsch (who plays Gambit) is profoundly the next big character next to Schreiber as he suavely plays his deck. Schreiber is indeed someone who kills without the stare, to think that he lacks in here the wacko image, and the hippie long hair. ( READ MORE at http://barrycyrus.wordpress.com )