X-men Origins: Wolverine-ish....

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2009)

So yet another comic-book-based film has arrived this time in the form of everyones favourite mutant, Wolverine! So once again, opinions for the film seem to differ somewhat from viewer to viewer as is normal with this type of film. The bottom line is quite simple. You can't please everyone. ESPECIALLY die-hard fans who all have their ideal version of the specific character or characters portrayed on film and of course all thoughs people that reckon if they had the huge budget supplied to them that they could in return make a better film!!! "X-men Origins: Wolverine" is by far no masterpiece but that being said it is still a very enjoyable action movie! i.e. low on plot and big on action and cheese....but in a tasteful way.
Hugh Jackman was fine in the role of Wolverine (the cinematic version) but didn't particularly bring anything new to the role. The film flowed pretty well too with enough dialogue (though substance lacking) between the much anticipated action scenes. One of my major problems which seems to be a reacurring one of late is that they show too much in the trailers for these films, as in all the coolest parts of the action scenes I had already seen and there was very little left to surprise me! The best thing to do I guess is to stop watching trailers all together....yeah right!!!
The cameos of new (to live-action film) characters were good but sadly some of the cameos were either too short or pretty irrelevant! More screen time needed to go to "Deadpool" (the funny one not the later on one)and definitely Gambit who only seemed added in the last minute due to high demand from fans wanting him in the original trilogy! Taylor Kitch was alright as Gambit though his Cajun accent seemed to come and go which was very inconsistent.
I don't want to harp on about plot details etc. so I'll just say that "X-men Origins: Wolverine" will NOT please everyone and will probably offend people who are perfectionists or are just that way inclined. It seems too many people go to movies to look for their flaws and of course end up not enjoying the movie because they never intended too!!!
This film is probably the closest resemblance to a live-action version of the character of "Wolverine" because at the end of the day we all know that if there was going to be a live-action film adaption of the comic book version of Wolverine...it would be rated - R, which means less people will see it and Hollywood won't make enough profit!
It's sad but true.
So ignore all the bad things you've heard about this film and just go and see it for yourself and make your own opinion on it as only you can decide whether you like it or not.
As for my opinion, it was definitely a lot better than the disappointing "X-men 3" but inferior to the first two films though I do think this film is a great lead-in or prologue to "X-men 2" and recommend watching "X-men 2" straight after "X-men origins: Wolverine" as it's almost a direct sequel: )