An exercise in misunderstanding a character

Rating: 1/10 (23 August 2011)

First of all let me say that I have not read the comic books and have absolutely no idea of how a the comic book's version of Wolverine's past is written.
But when that is said I have watched the 3 other x-men films and even though I wasn't a fan of either 1 or 2, and hated 3, I have always seen a great potential in these stories of misfits trying to adapt to a world that hates them and the whole thing of either teaching the world that all can co-exist or ripping the worlds tongue out through its' intestinal system.
And I really feel that this movies did option no.2 on the whole potential of at least Wolverine. Because the main flaw with this movie is not the bad action, the underwritten characters or even the ridicules twists every 5 minutes. The Main flaw is that the character of Wolverine is completely misunderstood.
We are in all the other movies (and the comic books i presume) led to believe that wolverine has this horrible past that has turned him into a man driven by anger, revenge and hate. This is what makes him the most interesting person of the x-men because he needs to learn how to control himself and become more human than a savage beast (the opposite of sabertooth). So if you want to show his past this past needs to be strong and scary for us to understand what Wolverine is fighting in his mind.
But nothing has gotten into making his past scary or give reason for his deep mental scars. X-men 2 showed the room he got his claws in and made it creepy as hell and showed flashes of a Wolverine suffering, bleeding and screaming. That's the past Wolverine needs to have for him to have any dept but in this movie the room is brightly lite and then one, two and a little "auw" he has the claws and escapes to do a bit of prat falling humor with his new claws, and the audience goes "ahahaha oh look at that silly old fool he can't even control those claws!".
You just do not believe that this guy will ever become the Wolverine that he is in the x-men films and worst of all you just don't care about him because nothing is dangerous. It becomes just another boring action flick with bad action an even worse story and the most unbelievably bad attempt at a sad romantic subplot as a reason for his mental scars.
I really can't recommend this to anyone. Not even if you just want action and do not care about the characters. It's bad. And the only mutant power it truly shows is the power to make your eyes and ears hurt.