Wolverine


Wolverine starts out showing his childhood in Canada in 1845. From there we  get a montage of him and his brother Sabertooth fighting in the Civil  War, WWI, storming Normandy in WWII (Shades of Saving Private Ryan) and  Vietnam.  I don’t think we know the time period the rest of the movie is in,  but I assume it’s the modern era.  Of course it’s before the first X-men  movie, but remember that was in the near future. Hmmmm

Anyway next is a team of Black Ops mutants, led by a younger Stryker  (Who was in X-men 2.)  The team includes Wolverine, Sabertooth,  Deadpool, the Blob (whose not fat yet) and a few others I didn’t know.   The team goes to Nigeria to recover a meteor, from which adamantium can  be made.  While there Wolverine walks off because Stryker threatened the  villagers lives.

6 years later Logan is living in Canada with Silverfox, when Stryker  tracks him down. Apparently Sabertooth has been killing off old team  members, and Wolverine is asked to stop him. He’s reluctant at first,  but you can guess what happens next, after which he volunteers to get  the admantium implants. The rest of the plot goes from here, with a few  twists and turns that you might be able to guess.

Along the way he meets up with some old comrades.  In one scene he  boxes (yes boxes) the now obese Blob.  That scene attempts comedy but  really took me out of the movie as it seemed inconsistent with the tone  of the whole story. There’s a shot where the claws come out of the  boxing gloves that just looks bad.

In the final act we see some other mutants including a young Cyclops,  which I thought was cool. A walking Xavier shows up at the end in a  chopper taking the escapees away, apparently to the X-men first class  movie now being planned. Xaviers face look really weird, like it was CGI  so they wouldn’t have to pay Patrick Stewart to show up or something.  Oh, it also shows how Logan lost his memory, in a way different from the  comics, but I liked it.  

Come to think of it there’s lots of FX here that looked bad. Him  coming out of fire, walking towards the sunset with his girl, but the  worst is a shot of him jumping naked over a waterfall. That looked  really bad.

There’s things that hardcore fans won’t like about this movie, but I  thought some of the deviations from the comics were ineresting.  Storywise it was ok, but overall it was kind of boring. The action  scenes were ok, but the acting wasn’t great. I didn’t feel much suspense  watching it. For example the scene where he gets the admantium should  have been really hard to watch, but it wasn’t.  Plus there were too many  FX shots that looked weird, like it was a low rent sci-fi movie. Disapointing.

Three stars.

P.S. There’s a scene where he meets an elderly couple that’s  reminiscent of Ma and Pa Kent. Hahaha.