A good comic book adaptation film, and sits on par with The Last Stand

Rating: 6/10 (24 May 2009)

While I've heard many negative things about X-Men Origins: Wolverine, seriously I found it difficult to find one good comment of this film here on IMDb, coming from a die-hard X-Men fans but a not-so Wolverine fan, this movie rocks! Sure it does take some liberties, one that annoyed me, but that didn't ruin the film for me, is that they made Silver Fox and Emma Frost sisters. Now, I haven't read every single X-Men comic ever produced, but I find it hard to believe that those two ever interacted before, so why make them sister. I'll tell you why: it was nothing more than a cheap plot piece to throw Emma Frost into the movie, while at the same time giving her a slightly bigger cameo than other mutants thrown in just for fun. I've also read some comments about people complaining that Sabretooth and Wolverine aren't brothers, so why are they in the movie. Another cheap plot piece? No. You can't blame this movie for that element of the story because they didn't just pull it out of the sky. A Wolverine centric comic book mini-series released only a few years ago made them brothers. So if you don't like that, you can't blame this movie. They're only trying to be as current as possible. While this movie is chalk full of pointless plot devices only made to throw more cameos in, the aforementioned Emma/Silver relationship, as well as having Cyclops and Gambit involved with Weapon X, which I'm pretty sure never happened in the comics. So the bottom line boils down to: this movie is good. It's probably 3rd on my ranking of X-Men films, ahead of the first but still behind The Last Stand and X2, but it still is enjoyable. I was surprised I liked it so much, being as I don't really care for Wolverine. But the only problem with this movie is the writers deciding to rewrite X-Men history, as a way to throw in characters who should have bigger roles in the film series, but just don't fit in this film all that well.