Good movie, with very dark themes, explaining the origin of Wolverine.

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 2009)

With the success of the X-Men movies this one is a sort of prequel. It focuses on how Wolverine came about, since he is perhaps the most popular of the mutants in the X-Men series.
It starts in the 1800s, when Logan was a young boy a traumatic circumstance triggered his mutant abilities. It was manifest as bone-like protrusions that came out of his knuckles.
Then in a rather brief sequence we see Logan and his brother Victor as young adults fighting in various wars, getting wounded but always healing. It is curious, I must note, that they aged until they were adults, but then quit aging. So with this movie set in modern times they look about 40 but are in fact closer to 200 years old.
Hugh Jackman is of course Logan / Wolverine. Liev Schreiber is his brother Victor Creed. The other key character is Danny Huston as William Stryker, a role played by much older Brian Cox in X-2.
The story goes on to show how Logan was given an experimental treatment whereby an exotic metal went into his body to make him indestructible, and his bony protrusions were replaced by the metal blades.
The themes in the movie are very dark, both Logan and Victor go on killing sprees. But the movie ends in a way to set the stage for what became the X-Men movies already out.