If it ain't broke don't fix it

Rating: 6/10 (14 May 2009)

There have been many posts on this movie, mostly from fans of the comic who are either angry or disappointed or both. After being a Wolverine fan for nearly 20+ years, I went into this movie with an attitude of "well, how bad can it be?" Though this movie's far from being terrible, it does fall WAY SHORT of what it could have, should have been.
Wolverine has a dark, tortured and horrific past, yet he still manages to keep his faith in humanity and fight for the side of good. This is what makes him such an endearing hero. This movie waters everything down so much for the sake of a younger Hollywood audience it completely misses the essence of Wolverine the character. The berserker rage is all but gone, and the back story is so piece-mealed from different story arcs that the final result is pretty damn lame. The coolest part of the movie are the war scenes in the beginning, and they last a total of about three minutes.
As much as they failed with delivering Wolverine's back story, to me the biggest travesty here is the utter demolition of one of the coolest characters in the Marvel universe: Deadpool. WHAT THE F***? How could they have ruined Deadpool any further than this? After starting out strong in the beginning, the guy has turned into a poor man's version of SuperSkrull with Cyclop's eye beams, teleportation and swords coming out of his arms?! how can he even bend at the elbow with those things? To add insult to injury there's a spin-off movie in the works... UGH! Basically, all of the fan's gripes are warranted and I simply added to the list. All in all I was entertained, but very mixed in my feelings - this movie could have been WAY better if the writers weren't afraid to take chances in the RIGHT way, not recreating and rewriting something that was great to begin with.
In summary: "If it ain't broke don't fix it."