The cow has been milked

Rating: 4/10 (22 June 2009)

This fourth film with (part of) the X-men is based around the past of Wolverine. There's no real need for further character introduction - the most important ones are defined already and the new ones are laid down quick enough to have a fitting place in the film. Action films like this are usually full of eye candy and this one isn't much different - there's more than enough to look at. There is also some sort of backing story, even though it does seem to detour from the X-Men stories as defined by the comic books. I say seems, I've never really read them, they may be spot on. They just don't match up all too well IMO.
As a pure action film this one doesn't work out too well. The most of the action sequences are just that - pure action. At the one side they try to create a background story, but on the other end they fail to connect it to the things that happen and that makes the film far more fragmented than it should be. Tone down a bit on the graphical effects, tone up a bit on explaining things and you've got a lot better film.
4 out of 10 bored action heroes