X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Rating: 4/10 (30 June 2011)

The original Marvel X-Men trilogy was pretty good, there were rumours about a few prequels, including Magneto and Professor X, who were seen in First Class, the character focused in this prequel was probably the most popular of the films, so I had to see it. Basically 200 year in the past, mutant brothers were born and suffered childhood trauma, and grew up never ageing over the years to become James (Hugh Jackman) with the power of healing and large claws and Victor Creed aka Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) with wolf-life qualities and also claws. Young William Stryker (Danny Huston) meets them and offers them a place in Team X, the small elite of mutants including David North aka Agent Zero (Daniel Henney) with the power to absorb kinetic energy, sword specialist Wade Wilson aka Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), teleporter John Wraith (The Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am), extremely obese and strong Fred Dukes aka The Blob (Kevin Durand) and electrically talented Chris Bradley aka Bolt (The Lord of the Rings' Dominic Monaghan), and they do accept for a while. Six year on though James leaves, calling himself Logan or Wolverine and goes to live with girlfriend Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins) in Canada, but she gets killed by Victor who has gone the opposite direction. Therefore Stryker offers Logan an operation which will increase his claw abilities and strength, he will injected with the virtually indestructible metal Adamantium, turning his entire internal skeleton and claws metal, and this operation succeeds. He also gets dog tags saying "Wolverine" on them, but he quickly makes his escape when he overhears orders to have his memory erased, and so begins a number of chases to get him back, and at the same time defeat the villains. In the end Logan and Victor have a big fight, which obviously has the good winning, many young mutants, including young Scott Summers aka Cyclops (Tim Pocock), who were captured by Stryker are released and rescued by Professor Charles Xavier (Sir Patrick Stewart), and mutant Remy LeBeau aka Gambit (Taylor Kitsch) shoots Logan in the back of the head, causing amnesia, and he walks away to be alone somewhere. Jackman as with the other films is cool with a good amount of aggression and attitude, the supporting actors do their parts pretty well too, as with the predecessors the special effects are fantastic and the action moments are well executed, but the story could have done with a little tweaking to make it a bit more gripping, but it's not a bad fantasy action adventure. Okay!