Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter, John Palermo, Louis G. Friedman, Richard Donner, and Stan Lee.
Directed by: Gavin Hood.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine continues the X-Men film franchise as its fourth installment although in the form of a prequel to X-Men, X2: X-Men United, and X-Men: The Last Stand, set approximately between ten to twenty years before the very first film. Unlike the X-Men trilogy, this film revolves around
Wolverine entirely and his conflicting relationship with Victor Creed, his half-brother.
What a cheap way to cash in on the overall X-Men franchise. X-Men Origins: Wolverine feels tacked on and completely uninspired, everything from the script right down to the action sequences. The positive thing I can this about this film is the excellent chemistry between Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Liev Schreiber’s Sabretooth aka Victor Creed, if only the film could have lived up to their great performances here.
The film also chronicles Wolverine’s first few encounters with Colonel William Stryker and Team X, and provides an explanation for the indestructible metal that is bonded to Wolverine’s skeleton. There’s plenty of mutant cameos here as well, ranging from Deadpool, Gambit, to Blob to name a few. Another hint that this is an uninspired cash in vehicle is the fact that they chose a ...
