Third chapter almost always a let-down...

Rating: 3/10 (10 April 2010)

It's a tad-bit better than Spider-Man 3's try at a third (and final chapter) in a comic-book franchise adaptation. But it's not very enjoyable to watch.
Firstly, a large number of comic book fans and TV fans of X-Men will realize that this film characters are wrong in many ways. Wolverine never had a thing for Jean Grey, as far as I'm aware. Iceman and Rogue weren't involved in the comic books nor TV show and for the most part this film is just laced with the idea of "let's kill off as many of the big names we can." Magneto has become some insipid idiotic character in this film. He walks around with the presence of being a class 3 mutant but during the climax of the film sits back and doesn't deal out an offense where he should. Jean Grey's role seems nearly pointless and once again, the movie revolves around Wolverine.
A great number of people have gone to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine but I must ask: what's the point? We've already seen the past three X-Men movies revolve around him. X-Men was supposed to be about a team battling the odds and battling the dangerous foe Magneto. These films turned all that potential into a romance trilogy with a bunch of lazy unfunny writing and cheesy one-liners that leave us baffled.
X-Men was a great adaptation but before long, it became all about Wolverine while trying to trick you with being about Rogue or perhaps Magneto. Not long after, X2 came along and showed us that the writers only care about Logan. With more than a dozen great mutants at their fingertips in X-Men: The Last Stand, they still failed and once again focused on the cheesy love story between Wolverine and Jean Grey.
Underneath the excess amounts of love, there's jealous brewing between Kitty/Rogue over the affections of Bobby (Iceman) and Mystique's roles has been reduced, while Pyro seemingly takes over as "second-in-command." Nothing against Pyro, but I don't find his character to be as outstanding as Mystique.
I also didn't agree with the omitting of Night Crawler. He was a staple character in X2 and the main reason I enjoyed the film as much as I shouldn't have. Beast's addition was overshadowed, as was Angel's, by the too many additions of other mutants. There's simply too many mutants to try to show in this film and with the overwhelming story of Wolverine, it's all crammed up too much.
Nonetheless, the special effects are still top-notch, and the make-up was the best of the year, I think. It just tried to do too much with too little time. Much like Spider-Man, not enough development, too many villains/mutants. A big, big let-down.