Wolverine is the greatest ever Marvel super-hero; and Hugh Jackman is the coolest actor in the X-Men. Tragically, however, the character has never been written for properly in the X-Men movies (in my view). And the stand-alone X-Men Origins: Wolverine is enlivened by the wonderful Liev Schreiber as Sabertooth, and is wonderfully shot by director Gavin Hood and his cinemetographer Donald McAlpine; but is still, in my view, a disappointment.
No matter; Wolverine is still the best there is at what he does. Here are some pics:
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The Wolverine Origins comic from which the opening sequence is taken actually has tremendous depth to it. Unfortunately they’ve taken the hatchet to it in the film, which is a shame because as you said, he is a brilliant character and there was so much potential to explore that character with the film, but they sacrificed that for exploding helicopters.
I do agree that Schreiber’s performance stood out amongst everything else though.
I was willing to love it till the final setpiece, which was so crap and corny I despaired.
Wolverine and Storm, in love and kicking ass…that’s the movie I want to see!
Hah, that would make for an interesting pair.
One another note there is another X-Men film in the works called ‘X-Men: First Class’ and apparently Bryan Singer is attached to direct.
http://www.movieweb.com/movie/FIgUTolhYjwIki