Overwhelmingly underwhelming

Rating: 6/10 (18 November 2009)

It always amazes me when a director with little to no experience within the genre of big Hollywood blockbuster is given the keys to the city and told go and continue the evolution of a valuable franchise. Im not saying Gavin Hood isn't a good film maker, Tsotsi was a very impressive drama film but just as we saw with McG (not a talented film maker) and the Terminator franchise, we hit a rarther big wall in that we have an overblown, loud and pretty uninteresting fireworks display.I like Hugh Jackman and his performance as Wolverine is fine,the problem with the film is that its very shallow in comparison to to Bryan Singers brace of X-Men pictures.Liev Scriber is great playing Jackmans unhinged brother but there isn't much else positive to report. There are a lot of fan favourite characters fleetingly introduces but never fleshed out. The film ends leaving no lasting impression and overwhelmingly underwhelms.