A sheep in wolverine clothing.

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2009)

It's like duck season but with the valued and much appreciated paying public well and truly in the franchise players' sights, their souls and wallets are easy targets when it comes to mush such as this. Vulnerable minds, indifferent attitudes taking the bait; as long as the target audience lays itself across these impending railway lines, whom can we blame but ourselves, if this adaptable chameleonic gravy train rolls headfirst into success and prosperity? X-Men Origins: Wolverine sells itself off the back of the X-Men brand, this tiny, inferior drop-off is just dreadful; we have become adjusted to the cogs-in-the-machine that is unoriginality in motion, clichÃ©d in progress and dull to the very core of its roots. The cogs that are drip-fed easy money back into its veins to resurrect the perpetual monotony of this fugue state as we leave the cinema hallways.
Easily lead to the slaughter, we sit and hope that there shall be redemption in texture, salvation in style and creativity in content, but alas, the Well has run dry and only dust and decay reside in these hollowed halls of the Hollywood machine, but, on the up-front, padded-out with the adage of; another day, another dollar. This is what you get for your Yen, Pound and Dollar. This is no bad policy in itself but at the expense of what in particular? This then gives us a choice, an experience to know the difference and having the means to make that difference.
The distant chimes of future spin-off's, with this particular brand of X-Men and their comrades' that is, are always ringing in our ears. Heading toward the proper direction, the correct amount of spin and heaps of hype, all looks well and healthy in the Hollywood camp, but is it the same-old-same-old reprise? Only we, with out ticket stub in hand, or in future, not as the case may be, shall be our only weapon that will be the spanner thrown in the works of this monocultural industry.