Skip it, bub

Rating: Null/10 (9 August 2013)

A couple decades out of date, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" is a dull superhero flick by director Gain Hood. The film stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, an adamantium clawed mutant with remarkable healing abilities.
Hugh Jackman is well cast, looks exactly like the Wolverine of Marvel Comics lore (a cross between Clint Eastwood and a werewolf), but the film he's stuck in is wholly generic. The film's action sequences are equally silly, and feel like they belong in a 1990s Steven Seagal flick, slow-motion fireballs and all.
Incidentally, Jackman's Wolverine was handled much better by director Bryan Singer in previous "X-Men" flicks. Singer understood how to use Wolverine: sparingly, his violence hinted at and not pushed past gratuitous lengths. Gavin Hood does the opposite, mistaking excess for excitement.
4/10 – Worth no viewings.