Certainly Watchable... but... Frustrating

Rating: 6/10 (11 June 2009)

Numbered Sections Contain SPOILERS
Pros: - Entertaining - Some good Wolverine action - Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed
Cons: - Shotty/Rushed CG work - Over-hyped appearances of other mutants - Plot is all over the place at times
I may not be a crazy comic book fan... but I know more than the average Joe and because of that I find this movie a bit frustrating. If you have seen the other X-men movies, it should be obvious that FOX has stopped caring if they make a good quality movie; now, all they seem to care about is making the movie just barely good enough to pass and then market the hell out of it too make a quick buck - rinse and repeat. I'm not saying this is a absolutely horrible movie - I kinda liked it - but it annoys me when its obvious the movie could have been 10x better with a bit more effort.
Let me hit my main points:
1.) The Visuals (Spoilers): I had the ability to watch the leaked rip of this movie however when I learned that large parts of the rip had only early stages of CG rendering, I decided just to wait for the theater release. However, I couldn't help but notice some glaringly bad graphics in the theater:

When Wolvering is playing with his metal claws in the old couple's bathroom... it was very noticeable that Jackman's hands were out of sync with the CG claws.

The part where Logan rapidly chops up the ladder Gambit was on looked absolutely horrible.

These are only two examples, but there is no excuse that for a "big budget" movie and 4th in a series to have such basic technical problems.
2.) Usage of Mutants - First, let me say that an entire movie could have been made just using Logan and Creed and I would have been happy. For example, the opening of the movie showing the two going through time might have been my favorite part. Now, the thing that really bothers me is the level of advertisement that FOX aimed at Deadpool and Gambit. If you take the screen time of those two in Ads it nearly equals the screen time in the movie - this is unacceptable. If such popular characters are going to play such a small role why not use lesser known mutants; the die-hard fans will be happy and the rest of the viewers wont even notice the difference and also be happy. X-Men(1) had the perfect amount, a core group of big names and a few secondary ones. X2 (the best) kept the core group and simply added a few more big names. Then X3 started to go crazy with it, which has carried over to Wolverine.
3.) Ending Frustration: (Major Spoilers) - So from what I could tell... at the end "The Deadpool" was constructed to have all sorts of powers yet it seemed he used about 3 or so. Also... I don't like it when a villain is built up so much and then dies in 4 minutes (like Venom in Spiderman 3).
4.) Final thoughts: In the end I didn't hate the movie. I should not have to wait for the DVD to get the quality version. A movie can take more money and time to make and still net a ridiculous profit (ex: The Dark Knight). FOX needs to stop the X-Men series... take a step back... and reset their thinking (longshot I know).
-AX