X-men Origins: Wolverine Review

I agree, I think most people that really didnt understand this movie was those who never read much on his origin story and because of that really didnt get a lot of the little hints the movie dropped that linked it to the comics.

Bottom line, it was a great origins movie but I honestly think we need a sequel, this really just kinda felt like X-men Origins: Wolverine Part 1.

As for Roger Ebert saying that Wolverine is a bad superhero, thats his opinion. Although in my opinion the man doesnt know squat of what he talks about. If he wants to critque the movie thats fine, but Mr. Ebert dont make comments about a character you know nothing about. Read the comics...or atleast go out and buy Wolverine Essential vol 1 and read it. Then you can have an opinion upon Wolverine as a character. Going to see 4 X-men movies does not give him free reign to assume he knows even half of what Wolverine is about. Till then stick to the movies Mr. Ebert.

Just like with deadpool I find it very unlikely that gambit will get a spinoff

well i paid 9 dollars to see it and my review is

*face palm*

but some people clapped at the end, some guy took like his 11 yo daughter and was sitting next to me and she seemed to enjoy it, the theater was full. so some people enjoyed it I honestly do not like there adapaation of the origins and probaly wont go see another origins movie and defintly wont go see first class if it ever happens. screw em :)

i have more wood to throw into the lame fire though.. the editing was poorly done also literaly characters appeared out of no where, gambit from the the nawlings roof, gambit from the nuclear reactor scene, wolverine when he comes back to save kayla, it looks like a completly different room from where they started.:/

and in columbus ohio we got the dead pool ending, i would have rather have seen the japan ending. anyway 2.5 out of 5 1 star for hugh 1 star for leiv? the guy that played sabretooth and .5 for the sweet scene of wolverine escaping the weapon x facility, the waterfall scene was decent also

as a beginning to a new X-Men movie franchise the film was brilliant, even my wife like it as she hates super-hero films.
Roll on first class (forget Magneto please)so we can get the X-men franchise back to where it belongs. back to the silver screen.

Pinehas i think it was the thieves guild.

Heres my 2 cents

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Hulk vs Wolverine had a better origin for Wolverine and that wasn't even the thing's main focus. I mean honestly, adamantium bullets? So does he go walking around through the rest of the X-men movies with two adamantium-less spots in his skull?

I mean, there were so many better ways they could've handled his memory loss.

Zenanon, I agree. Personally I would have loved to see more of Team Weapon X in action, and see the Adamantium Wolverine pushed back until the very end, with the procedure causing memory loss as I always assumed was the cause.

Well im glad you lot finally watched it!!! THE FILM WAS RUSHED!!! An extra 20 mins or so is what it needed, An it should've been called WOLVERINE: WEAPON X, not much Origin in it! I just hope we get a better dvd/br version, come on, if bones come outta your fists there would be a lil blood lmao!!! : D Oh yeah i have a bad feeling about X-MEN FIRST CLASS just watch the end, an you'll understand! ; )

UatU @ Like i said the movie was rushed!!! More of WEAPON X Team hell yeah!!! Adum bullets OMG a 5 year old must've wrote some of the Wolverine script lol! P.s. We can alway hope FOX cut out a good chunck of the movie, so we get a better WOLVERINE on BR/DVD!!! Then again i wasn't expecting WATCHMEN when i went to see it heh!

It was absolute trash. Worse than Elektra.

There were just way way too many dumb things in this movie to cover it all so lets just do some obvious ones. (spoilers)

Adamantium is supposed to be unbreakable, and totally inert on a molecular level and yet Cyclops optic blasts made it get red hot.

Cyclops' optic blasts are supposed to be pure force, not heat. Singer got it right, Gavin Hood did not.

Wolverine actually blocked the beam with his claws, which is damn stupid when anything else gets hit with that beam it's blown away.
Somehow his claws just cancelled out physics and everything I guess.

So they faked Silver Fox's death huh? Ummm how did Wolverine not know that? You can't "cheat" Wolverine's senses. He would detect the deception instantly. Weak plot device.

When did Gambit get the power of being able to make small earth quakes with his stick? Neat o

The movie version of the Blob was super lame. In the comics he is actually pretty bad ass.

Wouldn't Wolverine's healing power fix his brain, and restore his memories? In the comics whenever Wolverine puts his claws thru Sabertooth's brain (two or three times), it takes him a while but he recovers everything, memories included.

How did injecting hot metal into Wolverine's body make it stick strictly to the bones? Wouldn't it burn though to other areas? Of course it would.. And how did knotty unsharp bone claws become keenly honed swordlike blades? When did that happen?

Couldn't they have found some way to explain that stuff? Maybe they knew it was a dumb movie so why bother.

It's really interesting that between the events of Wolverine and those of X men 1 Sabertooth's hair turned blonde, his eyes turned colors and his claws and teeth got longer. Amazing.

Soooooo.. Deadpool had bone - swords in his forearms all his life and didn't know it? And how did DP's severed head say shhhhhh with out any lungs to expel the air?

What exactly was it that made Wolverine quit the mutant merc squad that particular night? Your telling me that was the FIRST time that bunch killed innocent people? Not likely. Or did Logan just suddenly realize that he gave a damn? The didn't elaboratE but all that was way too rushed and didn't make much sense.

Call me a fanboy if you want, I don't care. I did grow up reading Marvel which is why it bothers me when they make crap movies with stuff I used to like.
So what i am getting at is that it's not simply different from the comic. It's also not as good. It makes less sense, it's not a s good a story, and it's a shame because the real story is a really good one.

I don't mind them making changes if they are good ones or necessary somehow. But over and beyond that it was just bad. Bad story, bad dialogue, mountains of cliche's. Does that make me a hater? It actually makes me a LOVER of GOOD movies.

@Juggernaut- thaaaaank you! The complete lack of wolverines senses is what really killed it for me. How did sabertooth get so close to drop a hyena's head just 20 yards from Logan? I just watched the Incredible Hulk again last night and that is how you change a character visually and still get it right(abomination). That movie rocked , they nailed the hulks look and power. There is a glaring difference with Fox and mARVEL movies. The Incredible hulk was a far better movie. Every point Jugg's made was true and can not be over looked and once again if you are going to destroy these characters and there abilities then why the hell would you go and make sure Emma Frost does not even have her physical attributes as well? why?

And how did DP's severed head say shhhhhh with out any lungs to expel the air?

I'm like 99% sure that in the Wolverine: Origins Comic book when Deadpool's head is cut off he and Wolverine talk.

I could sit down and look up what issue but I dont think its really important enough for that. You are right about a few points, but some you are not. There are actually at some points in the comics yes Cyclops' blasts are explained to be force and other times they do indeed produce heat. It really depends on what era and dev team your talking about.

All to often people have this skewed idea that marvel made a perfect world full of logic and free of inconsistancies and they really didnt. I can point out various flaws and incosistancies in the world. For example look at Wolverines claws from the 70s and then look at his claws in the 90s COMPLETELY differnt.

To be honest dude if you want a realistic movie full of logic I think you need to throw comic books and their movies to the trash. For me Ijust enjoy the movie for what it is and dont nit pick because its not done 100% the way I remember Wolverine to be because different people have different spins on the content. (ex: Ultimates Wolverine is completely different from Uncanny X-men Wolverine) Nuff said.

I believe that the X men franchise is dying and the Avengers one is just beginging, marvel should buy back all the rights they sold to Fox, or maybe Fox should hire script writers/directors that know how to make a good film.

TDK and Ironman have set the boundaries and Wolverine did not live up to the hype!

ok, this movie is not brilliant at all, it is a complete burlesque of wolverine's back story, everyone(at least us comic book readers) should know that. they completely ruined deadpool apart from his one cool scene pre-ix... its like the writers reaction after finish was "what? theres already a character named dead pool? last time i forget to look up a name before making a new character..."
and gambit has a crap role, played by a crap actor. he kind of fights wolverine in one scene, flies him in another, and the kind of saves him from falling rubble (which, since wolverine can heal, is the equivalent of picking up a pen off the floor). i hope that they end x-men before they ruin anything further, which would be difficult, but i'm sure they could find a way. they only spin off i could see being decent is deadpool, and it would have to be a prequel...
R.I.P.
X-Men
X-Men: Origins
Deadpool
Gambit
Dark Pheonix
Wolverine's Claws (shamefully rendered in n64 graphics)
and any other comic/character ruined by the movie franchise.

Godl1ng @ Exactly what i said, it is a good action movie, but a lame X-men movie!!!

I love the comics, but I also understand that this movie isnt going to follow the comics to a T. That being said, I enjoyed it very much.

You guys need to stop comparing every little thing to the comics and enjoy it for what it is.

Somebody asked how Deadpool was able to grow blades from his knuckles; if you payed attention to the movie (you obviously didn't), you would have heard about how he was modified with the different genes from different mutants. I'm guessing he gets those swords from the genes of Wolverine...just a guess.

IMO the best X-men movie so far. I can't wait for a sequel; maybe we'll see Silver Samurai and Omega Red.

KINGCOLD @ I think anyone here could've done a better WOLVERINE MOVIE!!! But yes you are right, we should be happy these films are actually being made but since ive seen THE WATCHMEN and how good an close to the original stuff does make it soooo much better, it does spoil it a lil bit when you see WOLVERINE so messed up from start to finish! I sorta groaned near the start when mini WOLVIE lol, got his bone claws an we saw not a speck of blood??? Come on,,,, if bone claws came outta your fists there would be blood! ; D p.s. yeah SILVER SAMURAI in 2!!! An no more stupid X-men cameos lol!

this was not better then X2 Macksimus shame on you

my guess to how the deadpool character got his arm weapons is they attached them surgically some how lol

I think that the movie was great considering some of the choices that the writers made.

As with most film adaptations... The book is usually better. I think that a lot of you are being a little unfair with your reviews.

-Jackman was awesome as expected.

-Liev did a great job as Victor Creed.

-Reynolds did a great job as Wade Wilson considering what they did to the character (what were they thinking? A single tear rolls down my cheek.)

-Will.I.Am. (whoever the hell that is) was a good John Wraith.

-Everybody wanted to see Gambit in the X-Films and you all finally got him on screen and yet you bitch about him... but really, Taylor Kitsch (whoever the hell that is) was a decent Gambit.

-Silverfox could've been done differently but her character in the movie worked just fine.

-Even Cyclops being in the movie made a little sense.

-And somehow they even made the Blob (horrible character) somewhat important.

As far as the other characters such as Emma Frost (I like boobs... but who cares how big her breasts were) just be glad she was in the movie. You all always want "Easter Eggs" and more characters to appear in these films (even going so far as to find them even if they don't exist... i.e. Captain America in the ice in the Hulk movie) Then once they do put these characters in you just pick them apart.

Lighten up... If you want to know Wolverine's origin read a f*cking comic book. If you want the cliff notes of his origin and some other cool sh*t go see the movie.

If any of you are on the fence about seeing this movie... GO SEE IT! If nothing else you'll be entertained. Don't listen to all of the people on here who are trying to "out-fanboy" each other.

I especially love the people who post who have obviously never read a Wolverine comic.

@frankiepoo5 - Got it right. Wolverine has a ton of origin stories. I've been collecting comics for over 25 years now... and until about 7 years ago James Howlett wasn't even Wolverine's name. So if you think about it... A lot of you are disregarding about 27 years of Wolverine's history and back story and basing the majority of your complaints on the film NOT limiting itself to the WOLVERINE ORIGIN comic.

Just be glad that they didn't make Hugh Jackman wear Wolverine's original costume. (It had whiskers... YIKES!)

As for those of you who saw the movie and wrote honest reviews... kudos.