Good Action. Bad Script.

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2016)

Seeing as 2008 was roughly the start of The Superhero genre gaining popularity and considering this film came out just after 'The Dark Knight' and Iron Man' and its the first prequel to a successful franchise, it already had high expectations for such a well known character as Wolverine, and with a back story looking into how he was given his Adamantium skeleton but ultimately falls flat. I found this film has the same problem as Xmen 3 were a lot of the films works on more visual effects than building on the characters and working on their development.
Obviously Hugh Jackman is always great as Wolverine, he is so dedicated to the role and has really shown that he is passionate about the character but no matter how good an actor is, you cant get around a badly written script. There is to much going on at once to really connect with any character. There's Logans love story with Silverfox, William Strykers team of mutants and there whereabouts, a rogue Sabretooth on the hunt for mutants and a young Cyclops dealing with his powers in high school. With all these things going on its hard to really get into any of the other story lines as it all feels very disconnected.
A problem i found with this film is that even though it follows the story of Wolverine in the Weapon X program, it involves way to many mutants and as much as i love cameos and references and even seeing other mutants and their powers, i feel way to many were crammed into this film, some of the more visually mutant powers like Gambits and Wraiths were good looking on screen but i felt there were a lot of mutants that seemed boring like Bolt, Agent Zero and the Blob. Another problem i found was since Sabretooth was already an established character, they made no attempt to even make Liev Schriber look like how Tyler Mane from the original does. obviously the biggest problem with any of the mutants in this film is Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds was brilliant as Wade Wilson from the at the beginning with the smart- ass attitude and cocky remarks but as the film goes on and they show you 'The Pool' towards the end its really is a mess. The character known as the 'Merc with a mouth' has his lips sown shut and is reduced to a brainwashed henchman for Stryker.
Another problem i found with this film is that its kinda hard to worry about a nearly indestructible protagonist when none of his enemies are as strong as him, plus iv always felt that its hard to make prequels tense because your fully aware Wolverine, Sabretooth, Cyclops and Stryker cant die because they all show up in the original trilogy but i guess that's something that you have to deal with with prequels.
Overall 'Wolverine Origins' definitely isn't a brilliant Superhero film but visually its not a bad film, Its not one of the defining Xmen films but it has its moments of entertaining action scenes. Worth a watch if your a fan of Superhero films, Xmen or Hugh Jackman.