It *is* a decent movie!

Rating: 7/10 (30 April 2009)

Seen it yesterday in the movies. And despite me not being without critic for the endprodukt I did enjoy the movie! Hugh Jackman did a great job. Not that I thought that it would be any different. But he definitely did. And the product what an enjoyable movie that at no time felt overly long. Rather to the contrary. (But more to that later).
I also enjoyed Liev Schreiber's balanced insanity. To a degree that you were never really sure whether to like of hate him. Yes Sabretooth is supposed to the *Bad* Guy. At least one of them. He is the animalistic Side that Wolverine always fought against. But that also makes him fun. He is more a Soldier of Fortune. He is willing to kill for the order and he doesn't care what or who. He is bad but he isn't evil. And the fighting scenes with Wolverine (with or against) are just great.
The story is OK and although I might have been able to say certain lines before they were spoken (without being a mutant myself ; ) ) I do credit that to the fact that this was not the first movies that I have seen like that.
The movie definitely gave you laughs and they were at the scenes they were supposed to be.
However where the movie didn't really pull though was the promise it makes from the Trailer and the movie posters.
The movie is a TWO man show.
And this is where the movie feels short. You want to see more of those other mutants. Especially those that where promised in the Trailer.
All other mutants are if they are lucky a bit more than a glimpse on the movie screen.
Where it unfortunately was most visible was with Deadpool and Gambit.
Scott Summers you didn't expect to be a big role since he was barley featured in the Trailer. But frankly he had as much role as Gambit and a bigger role than Deathpool.
Heck Bolt hat more screen time and he wasn't in neither trailer now Poster. (And he was unfortunately pretty much wasted with the early killing.)
Actually most of the killing where pretty stupid. The attack scene of "John Wraith" against Sabretooth was pretty much predictable as of it's conclusion.
Thing is what angers me is that we get a pretty nice glimpse of Gambit. And what I saw, I liked.
And that why I give 7 out of 10. It gave me what it promised a movie about the origin of Wolverine and that part I completely enjoyed. It didn't give me what the Trailer and the Poster promised.