With great expectations... comes great disappointment. (i'm one of those "losers" who's a comic book fan)
I've been waiting for this movie since, the first X-men appeared, since it wasn't even announced, since i started reading comics, since i watched those cartoons in 90 something with the X-Men and now, well now i'm just disappointed.
I'll start by saying that i knew the movie will suck when i saw it comes from, 20th Century Fox, from the company that produced X-Men the Last Stand, had a shitload of mutants, will have an "average" run time, had re shoots ordered by the studio (mr. director Sir, next time don't sing a contract unless you have "final cut" on the movie), was rated PG-13 had... that feeling to it.
The story in relevance with the story in the comics, it's somewhat ok, till the end of the movie when the proverbially shit, hits the literary fan and all those comic-book g33ks around will feel like they were raped by [frick]ing Santa Clause. Apart from the "twist" in the end that it's border line retarded, there are some points in the story that are plain bad. The fact that in the beginning of the movie, you get solid information about the time and place of the action, and then everything gets all blurry, makes me wonder how come this script was written by the guy who wrote "25th Hour". Moving along, a bunch of mutants appear, and disappear faster then you can say "why is everybody yelling in this movie?". It's the same bad move they made with X-Men Last Stand. Little screen time, for many characters. Reynolds it's ok as the "merc with a mouth", but his appearance isn't memorable. Then, there comes that dude from Lost who can play with electricity. Apparently he was important in the Weapon X story ark. Apparently i'm not such a big fan. Then, in comes the Blak Guy with a Cowboy hat that looks like Nightcrawler from X2, knock-off. A cheap knock-off nevertheless. You see Fred Dukes, who you taught it's the Blob, and then, in the end, you see some butt ugly thing that doesn't look like it's suppose too. Fast forwarding a bit, we see the guy who made all the g33ks wet themselves and all the girls, wet themselves too. GAMBIT! Oh, my god, GAMBIT! GAMBIT! Where's the cajun accent? Why are his actions retarded? Wasn't Gambit supposed to be what Steve McQueen was in Bullit? No, he's not the King of Cool, he's just a guy who throws some cards and sits at the table with that famous poker guy, Negreanu or something. Oh, i forgot about Sabretooth. Sabertooth's nice, William Stryker it's ok, and when you see mother[frick]ing Cyclops thrown in this shitstorm you just have to ask yourself. WHAT DID IT HAPPEN?!
On we go with the special effects. I mean, we're talking about a Comic Book movie. We should have some special effects right? Well, the special effects are "[frick]ing A" if this were a B-Movie. I don't understand where all the budget money went. On the re shoots? On Jackman's hair? On Reynolds paycheck? In the producers pockets? God-damnit, seeing this movie i was thinking to myself that i would've preferred Michael Bay as the director. At least his movies, are visually charming, this, was just awful. From the bone claws, to those jumping bits, and the whole, "i'm falling" shit.
Now, let me be another brick in the wall that says something about the rating. No [frick]ing blood. We're talking about a character that has [frick]ing claws, flips out often into a berserk rage, and is the best there is at what he does, and what he does it's not nice. So, no blood, no limbs severed, no nothing. I do believe Wolverine has some special claws that don't get bloody, and all the guns and knives used in this movie have the same "power". I think this power could be used for good in real life, because things tend to get violently.
So we have a shitty rating, for a shitty movie, that doesn't suck too bad because of the directing (even if, let's face it, some scenes, are just border line retarded, and this movie, kinda takes itself seriously), the acting doesn't help either, but the special effects and the story make you wanna have an umbrella so you can open it when the shitstorm starts.
In the end, i want you guys to stay till the end of the credits so you can see one last scene, that will make you pray, that what happened to the punisher Franchise will happen to the Wolverine franchise too.
The opinion of a fanboy.