It's all about seeing Logan

Rating: 6/10 (2 May 2009)

For me, the worst part of this movie are the adamantium bullets. Aside being obnoxiously "typical", they are profoundly WRONG. And in case you don't know, I'll tell you why. Bash two chunks of cheese into one another. They crumble. Do the same with two diamonds: it feels sure that adamantium bullets bounce off adamantium. This may be a fictional universe filled with extravagant rules of how "mutants" work, but that doesn't excuse an extravagant logic system.
In this case, one show of stupidity is enough to describe the tone for the way the entire movie is carried out. They really didn't think the scenes through. Or the entire story for that matter. The film is cheaply structured, but I found myself compelled to watch it all, rather to see Wolverine. That is what the film is all about.
Some people say his "brother" is played well, however the motivation for Victor's extreme murderous acts are thin.
They could have taken the story beyond a never ending series of betrayals and illogical "spare your life" scenes. Why would anyone spare someone when they know he was going to keep killing people no matter what? Or walk away for a second, third, n-th time? Wolverine is the anti-hero type, but not in this movie. The same goes for his girlfriend at the end.. merely to fit the story with X-Men 2. It could have been done a million better ways.
There is something very wrong in the way directors think: the hero kills dozens of henchmen, then out of the righteousness of his heart spares the boss. Again and again if he has to.
While the film was rolling with several choices for Logan to make at key points in the plot, some of the outcomes were guessable, possible, although one or two of them surprised me. Even with that, in the end, there is little to be labeled as smart, educational or inspirational about it, you just get to see another Wolverine film, this time just for the sake of it.
After having another look at the previous 3 X-men films, I take my vote down from 7 to 6. There are worse out there (they aren't called "Origins: Wolverine" or have cheesy fight sequences !). It is a relative score.