Directed by: Gavin Hood
Written by: David Benioff & Skip Woods
A look at Wolverine's early life, in particular his time with the government squad Team X and the impact it will have on his later years.
I thought I would only do one review per day but I'm super bored and depressed, so I went through two movies today. There's a chance I'll even watch First Class tonight, but we'll see.
Like The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is also disliked among the fans. I'm having hard time trying to review the story, see what's wrong with it, mostly because I've seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine so many times back when I was sixteen and just discovering X-Men and falling hard for Logan. It was my favourite, so it's hard for me to be completely objective. But I'm going to try.
The biggest problem with this movie is that we don't need it. Like as one movie it offers something new to us, Logan's past. But when we're considering the big picture, hardly anything happens in X-Men Origins: Wolverine that we don't figure out from some other movie, and most of it is already in conflict with what we learn from other movies.
Of course continuity went down the toilet with the reboot.
However, here are some of the thing I noticed that are completely useless because of other movies.
A) Sure, Wolverine's past is new to us, since we've only seen bits of the procedure that put adamantium on his bones, but the past is discovered in pieces through other movies, and we don't necessarily need to know what happened exactly. I mean after X2, didn't Logan kind of... give up on his past? From what Stryker said he probably gathered that he didn't want to know what kind of things he used to do, who he used to be. Sure, it's tragic and hurtful and it's just a big puddle of pain for our hero, but still slightly useless when it comes to other movies.
B) Scott Summers. Yeah it's great to see a familiar face, except oh wait, now that we have X-Men: Apocalypse, everything that happens to Scott here is absolutely useless, and it's in conflict. And let's be honest, Apocalypse did the thing way better.
C) Emma Frost. Again, great to see someone like her, but again, in conflict with X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
D) Yeah, we get a lot of new characters, like Gambit... But we've never seen them after this movie and they barely played an interesting part here.
E) What was the biggest crime of this movie? Oh yeah, what they did to Wade Wilson. That was awful and didn't make sense. But then oh, Deadpool got his own movie. None of the shit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine never happened. So was it worth it? I doubt it. Only good thing here is we do get to see how amazing Ryan Reynolds is, before... you know.
There's only one thing in the other movies that would need you to see this one, and it's Kayla's voice briefly in The Wolverine. Seriously, that's everything this movie can give to you, since it's in conflict with the other movies and all that shit.
The story here is alright apart from all that. It just doesn't give you much. You know what gave me more? The video game based on this movie. There were some alterations, but it also gave us Raven Darkholme - you know, Mystique - and there was some interesting stuff with Trask and Sentinels... And it was generally a fun video game, where the only annoyance was how much platforming there was.
The only thing this movie gives us is angst. In a way, it can be enough to certain audience, but mostly the continuity errors (which necessarily weren't errors before the reboot came and kind of wrecked this movie) ruin it. The film is alright, but honestly, The Wolverine is way better as a Wolverine solo movie, and when it comes to Logan, it fucking destroys this movie.
I thought I would only do one review per day but I'm super bored and depressed, so I went through two movies today. There's a chance I'll even watch First Class tonight, but we'll see.
Like The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is also disliked among the fans. I'm having hard time trying to review the story, see what's wrong with it, mostly because I've seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine so many times back when I was sixteen and just discovering X-Men and falling hard for Logan. It was my favourite, so it's hard for me to be completely objective. But I'm going to try.
The biggest problem with this movie is that we don't need it. Like as one movie it offers something new to us, Logan's past. But when we're considering the big picture, hardly anything happens in X-Men Origins: Wolverine that we don't figure out from some other movie, and most of it is already in conflict with what we learn from other movies.
Of course continuity went down the toilet with the reboot.
However, here are some of the thing I noticed that are completely useless because of other movies.
A) Sure, Wolverine's past is new to us, since we've only seen bits of the procedure that put adamantium on his bones, but the past is discovered in pieces through other movies, and we don't necessarily need to know what happened exactly. I mean after X2, didn't Logan kind of... give up on his past? From what Stryker said he probably gathered that he didn't want to know what kind of things he used to do, who he used to be. Sure, it's tragic and hurtful and it's just a big puddle of pain for our hero, but still slightly useless when it comes to other movies.
B) Scott Summers. Yeah it's great to see a familiar face, except oh wait, now that we have X-Men: Apocalypse, everything that happens to Scott here is absolutely useless, and it's in conflict. And let's be honest, Apocalypse did the thing way better.
C) Emma Frost. Again, great to see someone like her, but again, in conflict with X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
D) Yeah, we get a lot of new characters, like Gambit... But we've never seen them after this movie and they barely played an interesting part here.
E) What was the biggest crime of this movie? Oh yeah, what they did to Wade Wilson. That was awful and didn't make sense. But then oh, Deadpool got his own movie. None of the shit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine never happened. So was it worth it? I doubt it. Only good thing here is we do get to see how amazing Ryan Reynolds is, before... you know.
There's only one thing in the other movies that would need you to see this one, and it's Kayla's voice briefly in The Wolverine. Seriously, that's everything this movie can give to you, since it's in conflict with the other movies and all that shit.
The story here is alright apart from all that. It just doesn't give you much. You know what gave me more? The video game based on this movie. There were some alterations, but it also gave us Raven Darkholme - you know, Mystique - and there was some interesting stuff with Trask and Sentinels... And it was generally a fun video game, where the only annoyance was how much platforming there was.
The only thing this movie gives us is angst. In a way, it can be enough to certain audience, but mostly the continuity errors (which necessarily weren't errors before the reboot came and kind of wrecked this movie) ruin it. The film is alright, but honestly, The Wolverine is way better as a Wolverine solo movie, and when it comes to Logan, it fucking destroys this movie.
☆☆☆☆
4 / 10
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