Not bad but certainly not great

Rating: 6/10 (24 May 2009)

Wolverine isn't a terrible movie, it just feels rushed and underdeveloped. The movie details Wolverines (Hugh Jackman) life from his first discovery of his claws to when he ends up at the start of X-men with no memory of who he is and how he ended up indestructible. The main problem i had with this is that i feel that the writers just sat around and brainstormed ideas, then put them all in and based the plot around the random scenes. To their credit, they were successful to a point. Early scenes featuring team X are great and feel perfect but after Wolverine leaves the team and becomes a lumberjack(!?) and his girlfriend gets killed, the movie just becomes random mutant scenes stitched together with a very loose motive from the badguy. (The villains do a lot to get Wolverine to undergo the metal bonding process then immediately try to kill him 2 seconds later). It's unfortunate that all of the fights in this movie are a let down except for Wade Wilsons (Ryan Reynolds) and the final fight which is stupid but also fun involves Wolverine and Sabertooth teaming up to then fight a remote controlled Wade who is now deformed and programed to kill Wolverine (And he has other powers and no mouth). It was a huge waste to turn Wade who was the best character in the film into a deformed drone and because you like him so much you don't exactly want him to die.
Overall, if you don't look too far into this then chances are you will enjoy yourself but don't expect the awesomeness of X2 to be re-created here.