The start of the new X-Men has arrived!

Rating: 8/10 (19 November 2009)

In the Northwest Territories of Canada in 1845, Victor is watching over his friend James. His father is heard being shot and James runs down to find him dead. He then attacks the man who shot him with bones that come out from his hands putting them into the man's chest killing him as he tells him that he is his son. After doing so James flees the house Victor close behind him finally catches him. Victor tells James do you realize we are brothers now; we need to stick together no matter what and take care of anyone who gets in our way.
There are flashes of the brothers Victor and James going through every major war and never stopping to look to the past. It gets to be too much and Victor ends up killing a Sr. officer and they both end up undergoing a firing squad. Striker opens their cell and tells them if they want to join a special team with special privileges they can join or either stay here and rot. They join the team and their mission is to get a rock that is from outer space which they yet don't know that. After they have gotten the rock from a heavily guarded building with diamonds they head to an African village to try and get answers where the rock came from. The villager said it came from the sky and not believing them, the villagers begin to run and people almost get killed including Victor almost killing the guy.
James tells Victor to stop because he did not sign up for this and does not want to be a part of this team anymore and leaves with Victor yelling his name. Six years later Striker finds Logan working at a logging mill telling him that someone has killed Wade and Bradley not to long after that from the old team. Not wanting anything to do with it, he just says he wants nothing to do with it anymore. Logan tells his girlfriend about Striker showing up. The next day he smells a scent of Victor and finds his girlfriend dead close by her abandoned car. Tracking down Victor at a bar they battle it out and he tells Logan how else was I supposed to get your attention. Leaving Logan telling him he is more like him than he knows, he just doesn't know it yet.
Waking up at a hospital and finding Striker there who tells Logan that Victor went AWOL and is coming after everyone from the old team. Wanting revenge for what his brother has done, Striker injects Logan with Adamantium which is what he was looking for in Africa that day six years ago, which is a metal so strong that he will be able to withstand virtually anything.
Unlike the other X-men this one has a story although Last Stand did have somewhat of a story with Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto. Wolverine has some of the students from the other movies just starting to go to the school for the gifted for their powers, so I wonder if they will play off that a little more. This movie shows, how Logan/Wolverine has become what he is and how he lost his memory. The special effects in this movie are really amazing and also you get to see some characters which you probably have not seen in the other X-men movies. Even if you haven't seen the other X-men movies you don't have to because this one is about Logan/Wolverine which intrigues you more I think. I mean would you rather see the good guys fighting the bad guys with powers or have a story behind how each character grew and where they started out at? Even if you have never seen the other X-men movies I would highly recommend checking this one out before the others.