Entertaining, but the plot got a bit complicated and hard to follow at the end.

Rating: 6/10 (2 May 2009)

Having no knowledge of X-men other than the movies, I can't comment on weather this accurately follows the comics or not. But I do enjoy this series of movies with the second being the best and the third a disaster. Both Jackman and Schrieber look amazingly built, one almost wonders whether Barry Bonds was sought for advise in achieving that look. Schreiber playing Wolverine's evil twin makes a slight attempt to put on a Canadian accent for the role as in this film we discover both were born in the Canadian far north over 150 years ago. However, after seeing Ice Road Truckers, I would expect the two brothers to have very thick Canadian accents based on their origins. In the movie we meet some early mutants led by a special forces commander on ruthless missions. When the goings become to merciless Wolverine quits to seemingly retire to a life as a lumberjack only to have his past come back to tear apart his seemingly blissful existence. We meet several new mutants and there are some great scenes shot in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Near the end there are several revelations which are hard to follow and the "plot" against Wolverine becomes somewhat overcomplicated. One problem I had was that in this film Stryker seemed to have access to science in the late 70's far more advanced than that of the X men in the movies set in the present. Also I seemed to anticipate some sort of entry of Magneto and how he founded his legion of evil mutants in this movie. Especially as I was sure for a moment that we were looking at Mystique in a scene near the end where Wolverine
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encountered his seemingly dead girlfriend at Strykers headquarters in 3 Mile Island. The film is good entertainment, however I wish they would follow this up with more X men film set in the present and forget about the idiotic decision by the writers to kill of Xavier and many of the key characters in the not very good third installment in the X men franchise.