Brothers Protect Each Other

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2009)

In 1845, in the North West Territories in Canada, the sick boy James Logan is in the bed with fever and his father and his friend Victor are in the room with him. When Victor's father breaks in the Logan 's house, he shoots and kills James' father; the revengeful James sees claws in his hands and he kills Victor's father that tells him that he is his real father before he dies. The boys run away promising to protect each other. When they grow up, they fight in the American Civil War, World War I, World War II and Vietnam and they find that they are indestructible. However, Victor (Liev Schreiber) is thirsty of blood and Logan (Hugh Jackman) controls him until the day Victor decapitates his commander; Logan protects his brother and they are both sentenced to death by firing squad. However the execution fails and Logan and Victor are visited in the cell by Colonel William Stryker (Danny Huston) that invites them to join a special force with other men with abilities. They accept and later the group is assigned to attack a gang of drug dealers in Lagos , Nigeria . However, the objective of Stryker is to retrieve a meteor from the hands of the drug lord. Then they go to a village and ask where the locals had found the meteor and to force them to answer, Stryker orders them to kill the villagers. Logan rebels against the action and leaves the special force. Six years later, he lives in the Canadian Rockies with his beloved and seductive Kayla (Lynn Collins) and works as lumberjack. When Stryker arrives in the location, he tells that someone is hunting down the former members of the special force. In the night, Kayla tells him the love story in the spirit world of Kuekuatsheu a.k.a. Wolverine and the lonely moon; when the powerful Victor arrives in the spot and kills Kayla, Logan realizes that has not enough power to destroy his brother. Logan seeks Stryker that promises him to increase his powers if he accepts to be the subject of a painful experiment with the metal compound "adamantium". Logan accepts and is destroyed while Wolverine is born seeking revenge and finding the hidden truth.
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" is a great action movie, with a solid dramatic story; great screenplay with many plot points and good acting. The story begins in 1845, when Wolverine has the first contact with his power in a moment of rage when he was a kid, and shows the evolution of his power after the experiment leaded by the evil Stryker. Further, it explains the origin of the name Wolverine. I would like to advise the viewers to wait and watch the whole credits to see the fate of Colonel Stryker first (in the middle of the credits) and the Canadian Wolverine drinking to remember in the very end. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): Not Available (on 07 April 2009)