Better Than X-Men 3, But Not Great By Any Standard

Rating: 6/10 (25 August 2010)

You can tell that Hugh Jackman put his heart and soul into this film, but at the end of the day, it was never going to be the new Citizen Kane, nor was it going to be the Citizen Kane of superhero movies.
The film overall is chock full of action, and relatively good dialogue, but I couldn't help thinking that it was all a little bit flat. There was one moment that upset me slightly, when a couple who helped Logan were mercilessly killed in order to demonstrate the "evil" of the bad guys. I felt that this moment spoilt the rest of the film for me, because it was as though the writer was scraping the barrel for reasons to despise the antagonists.
One thing to its credit though, is the final fight, which I truly appreciated. It was exciting, the choreography was impressive and the special effects were pretty damn good too.
So, overall, it's not going to be remembered in forty years' time, like The Dark Knight certainly will, but it was much better on every front than the disastrous X-Men 3, which took the franchise, and urinated all over it.