An Origins story that could have been perfect

Rating: 7/10 (23 January 2020)

Wolverine, with out a doubt, is a badass. He was also very popular. Popular enough to get his own solo film in 2009. There would be a further 2 more solo Wolverine films in 2013 and 2017. When X-Men Origins: Wolverine was released, it was not recieved well by critcs at all. Up until Dark Phoenix, it was considered to be the worst X-Men film. Is it as bad as the critics say? No, not at all. X-Men Origins: Wolverine manages to be a good film but fails at being the perfect origins story for an amazing character. The film follows Logan aka Wolverine's love is killed by his brother. Logan decides to seek revenge and then becomes a ,mutant. As far as to the origins of Wolverine, there is not a whole lot. What was described in the movie could easily have been used in the earlier films. Personally, the more I think about it, I don't think an origins film was really necessary for a character like Wolverine. Maybe I need some sort of knowledge of the comics to understand the things that occured in this film, but should I honestly have to? A comic-book film should strive to appeal to a bigger crowd than just the typical comic book readers. The action was good and all that stuff. The acting was not too bad. The dialogue was OK. This film just has terrible writing and it just ends up being forgettable. Not at all bad. Just not a fantastic film.