Jimmy!......Jimmy!......

Rating: 6/10 (15 June 2013)

Two brothers, Logan and Victor, suffer a childhood trauma and have only each other to depend on.
They're fighters and killers, living from war to war through U.S. history. In modern times, a U.S. colonel, Stryker, recruits them and other mutants as commandos.
Logan quits and becomes a logger, falling in love with a local teacher. When Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker's crew, the colonel sends the murderous Victor, who attacks Logans beau.
Logan seeks revenge.
It must have been an exciting premise, starting an origin franchise for the most famous characters, but while this movie has flashes of genius, its just too patchy and too flimsy to be a genuine entertaining movie.
The cast are great, Jackman has never been better as the titular character, and if they spent more time with Logan and his new crew, it would have been more fun, but this is just another major flaw of the film, it lacks humour.
There are funny parts, but they feel forced, and just land randomly in the film while we wait for the next explosion.
Schreiber is good, but his character is way too dark to be in this, and when he starts his killing spree, the film loses its touch.
Come the final third, the film really goes bonkers, and instead of it being entertaining and fun, its just frustrating, looking at poor effect after effect, and taking away the best thing about Ryan Reynolds in this, his mouth.
If you are a completest, it will suffice, but its the weakest X-Men film, although some parts are huge fun.
And I never fail to laugh when Victor keeps shouting Jimmy, at the end of the first act.