2/10 (barely)

Rating: 1/10 (1 September 2012)

Near the end of Gavin Hood's blockbuster debut, Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins), Wolverine's non- mutant girlfriend who has a "gift" for persuading people upon contact, grabs the leg of William Stryker (Danny Huston) and tells him to "walk until your feet bleed...and then walk some more." And in one of the most humorous misjudgments in recent action-movie history (aside from all of the movie's prior scenes), Mr. Hood shows Stryker in a mid-credits shot with (literally) holey boots and a sweat-stained doctor's shirt -- as if to give us a visual depiction of what a man looks like after he's walked until his feet bleed. This is the kind of director Hood has always appeared to be -- one so uncertain of either his actors, his own work, or the effect of the hyperbole in his picture's screenplay that he ends up disemboweling them altogether.