[shoots cigar to pieces] "Still smoking cheap cigars?"
James Logan (Jackman) and his brother Victor Creed (Schreiber) have extraordinary talents: they don't age and have incredible healing powers. They serve in every war that comes their way and try to keep a low profile. Eventually they are discovered by Colonel William Stryker (Huston), and are recruited to join a special team. Stryker's team of mutants includes Agent Zero (Henney) who is a marksman, Wraith (will.i.am)
who can teleport, Fred / Blob (Durand) who has super strength and invulnerable, Wade (Reynolds) who talks a mile a minute and wields swords, and Chris / Bolt (Monaghan) who controls electricity. James is unimpressed with their missions and walks away.
Years later he is living a normal life, living in the middle of nowhere with his girlfriend Kayla (Collins) and working at the local lumberyard. He is content with life and wants nothing to do with his past, even as his former friends start disappearing. When Stryker comes to visit, James' world collapses and he volunteers for an experimental new procedure to exact vengeance...
This film is another example of the powers that be taking something / someone that worked in one place and then ruin it... Wolverine is a character that worked well in the X-Men film franchise, and is a favorite in the comics. It seems like a good idea to take a beloved character and flesh out the backstory / character... but this film crashes and burns.
They try to fit too much information into one film. The character backstory is disappointing... really, that's the best you can do? They try to pack too many characters into the film. Yes, it is a nice nod to the fans of the comics, but they don't fully develop any of the characters. Wolverine is an interesting character, but he just washes out here... and you are left wanting more of the other characters, specifically Wade.
A major disappointment.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) 107 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some partial nudity
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Hugh Jackman as James Logan / Wolverine
Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed / Sabertooth
Danny Huston as Colonel William Stryker
Will i Am as John Wraith
Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox
Kevin Durand as Fred Dukes / Blob
Dominic Monaghan as Chris Bradley / Bolt
Taylor Kitsch as Remmy LeBeau / Gambit
Daniel Henney as David North / Agent Zero
Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson / Deadpool
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