A great film but suffers from the dreaded Third Act Fumble

Rating: 6/10 (24 April 2009)

This movie starts off wonderful and takes us through a beautiful credit montage that solidifies the foundations of Wolverine and Sabertooth's relationship (need each other but don't really want to accept it).
We're thrust into action practically right away with Wolverine and Sabertooth joining up with a "special team" a sequence that is much too short but gets in a decent amount of "comradery" between the team. Now after having differences with the team, Wolverine walks away to start a new life, which he very well starts to do. At this point the movie is still a fine piece of action a little light on characters (aside from Wolverine and Sabertooth). Now I'm not going to get too far into this but I felt by the end of the movie it back away from a potentially great character driven movie into a laid back action movie.
I DID see the work-print, but I can tell you the CGI and such isn't the problem it's the slight let down around the third act. Still a solid film and a for sure see.
PS. Gambit was decent, not enough Deadpool and what's the deal with Weapon XI being who he was?