X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: May 1, 2009

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LaGuertaMar 8, 2013

The script is dominated by a thorough lack of imagination as well as pointless and cringe-worthy winks at the audience. This film relies so heavily on special effects that it is, ironically, not particularly entertaining.

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DulothOct 12, 2015

This is the only movie I've ever watched that I could do a better job of directing than the man who actually did it. With excellent actors playing the key roles of Wolverine, Sabretooth, and Deadpool; good actors for the rest of the roles; aThis is the only movie I've ever watched that I could do a better job of directing than the man who actually did it. With excellent actors playing the key roles of Wolverine, Sabretooth, and Deadpool; good actors for the rest of the roles; a decent special effects budget; and a script that could've been a good movie with some minor adjustments.

The movie isn't absolutely terrible. It would be hard to make something absolutely bad with everything it had going for it. But what it has is inexplicable off-camera deaths, poorly arranged cookie-cutter action scenes that seem to be simply a matter of showcasing people's abilities, and completely insane themes and adjustments.

A character is implied to have died off-screen, killed by a character who it is difficult to imagine actually hurting them. A seasoned combat professional shown using assault rifles during his military career is shown attempting to defeat someone in unarmed melee combat who he literally cannot cause an injury to in that way. A character is shown climbing a wall at the beginning of a scene before others enter an elevator, and simply vanishes for the rest of it.

This film's director made numerous terrible, unforgivable mistakes, all of which could have been resolved without substantially altering the budget or storyline, some of them while actually decreasing it, such as a ridiculous scene near the end involving fighting in a power plant with mouth-covering makeup on a character(and actor) known for his witty dialogue.… Expand

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Cinemassacre94Mar 20, 2016

The trouble with X-Men Origins: Wolverine starts, but hardly ends, with its title. Origin stories are a necessary burden for superhero movies, but after starring in three X-Men movies, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine didn’t really need anThe trouble with X-Men Origins: Wolverine starts, but hardly ends, with its title. Origin stories are a necessary burden for superhero movies, but after starring in three X-Men movies, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine didn’t really need an introduction. What’s more, Wolverine has always worked best in comics as a high plains drifter of a character whose origins remain shrouded in mystery, even from himself. Still, someone decided the story needed telling, although presumably no one set out to tell it this badly.

We first meet Wolverine as a sickly child on a 19th century Canadian plantation. In a fit of anger, he pops claws of bone from his fist and kills the man he believes to have killed his father who, with his dying breath, confesses that he’s actually the kid’s father. Confused? Don’t worry about it. The film never really bothers returning to the whys and wherefores of his parentage, instead aging the young mutant and his similarly superpowered half-brother into Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber through a montage sequence that shows them fighting their way through American conflicts from the Civil War up through Vietnam. (Only the most famous ones, but maybe the DVD will have images of the beclawed duo charging up San Juan hill or laying the smackdown in Mexico.) After Schreiber, the more mean-tempered of the two, kills a superior in ‘Nam, they’re recruited by Danny Huston’s shifty, vaguely Nixonian Col. Stryker to perform covert ops with a bunch of other mutants.

Biting commentary on the abuses of military power fails to follow. Instead, director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) offers a lot of slickly uninvolving action scenes and a dramatic vocabulary on loan from playground recreations of Wrath Of Khan; the film’s so in love with the image of its hero shouting, “Noooooo!!!” to the sky with arms outstretched, it repeats it seemingly every other scene. It’s remarkable, too, how Jackman could be so loose and charming in the other X-Men movies but so hamstrung playing the same character in a script by David Benioff and Skip Woods that requires more emo mopery than anti-hero wit.

It doesn’t help that he’s stuck in bad company. The usually cerebral Schreiber proves unexpectedly menacing as Jackman’s blood-nemesis, but the film otherwise surrounds him with second-string mutant scrubs who aren’t given much to do and then don’t do generate a lot of interest doing it. Friday Night Lights’ Taylor Kitsch seems unsure where to run with the Cajun playboy Gambit and ends up taking him nowhere while Will.I.Am, in his big-screen debut, treats every line as a fearful surprise. A couple of halfway decent action scenes do little to distract from the story’s mounting ludicrousness—two words: adamantium bullets—or a conclusion that’s only a little more satisfying than a projector breakdown. Maybe.… Expand

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SrPepeNov 13, 2017

5.3? En serio? Esta película es pura basura, es tan mala que dan ganas de aplastar al director con un camión. Totalmente llena de errores temporales...

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imthenoobMay 4, 2020

The only thing that genuinely carried this movie was Liev Schreiber's performance as Sabertooth. He was fantastic and I really wished they had brought his character back as he played the role to perfection. Aside from that, This movie sucked.The only thing that genuinely carried this movie was Liev Schreiber's performance as Sabertooth. He was fantastic and I really wished they had brought his character back as he played the role to perfection. Aside from that, This movie sucked. The CG was pretty bad at times, The plot was utter nonsense and the ending was beyond stupid.

I really didn't even want to rate this movie a 1, I preferred a 0, but I'll give credit to Schreiber and Jackman's performances.… Expand

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SimpleMethodJul 8, 2013

Jesus Christ was this terrible. The CG on the claws was laughable and Deadpool, one of my favorite marvel characters, was utterly ruined in foul swoop with this trainwreck. Hopefully The Wolverine can redeem it.

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nahtan1244Feb 27, 2016

An insult to the character of wolverine and the x men universe on many levels. Not only is the story incredibly mediocre but it almost seems as if the director wanted to make a joke x men movie for audiences to laugh at or he just down rightAn insult to the character of wolverine and the x men universe on many levels. Not only is the story incredibly mediocre but it almost seems as if the director wanted to make a joke x men movie for audiences to laugh at or he just down right hated the x men franchise altogether. This movie is a coherent mess and joke from start to finish ignore at all costs… Expand

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CTHReviewsSep 11, 2018

The only thing X-Men: Origins has going for it is Hugh Jackman. He's still amazing as Wolverine. But with horrible CGI, a confusing plot, and of course, the dreaded treatment of Deadpool, this film just sucks.

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DarkwingSchmuckMar 13, 2022

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is one of the messiest, silliest superhero movies to ever take itself seriously. The result is a superhero film filled with some of the most bizarre moments and unintentional laughs since Batman & Robin or Catwoman.

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sg1fan75Jun 12, 2011

The worst travesty possible against the most bad ass x-man. Wolverine was portrayed as a candy ass in this so called movie, he is the best there is at what he does even though what he does is not very nice. Did the jackass that made thisThe worst travesty possible against the most bad ass x-man. Wolverine was portrayed as a candy ass in this so called movie, he is the best there is at what he does even though what he does is not very nice. Did the jackass that made this "Movie" ever read a wolverine comic book or for that matter a Dead Pool comic book what a tool find a new career to suck at you bloated hack.… Expand

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andrebarrosoDec 19, 2014

Why? Just why.
Hugh Jackman forever will be the best Wolverine ever, but something is completely wrong with this picture. Extremely unfaithful to the comics, by creating atrocities as the "Deadpool". Yes, Deadpool in quotes, because that'sWhy? Just why.
Hugh Jackman forever will be the best Wolverine ever, but something is completely wrong with this picture. Extremely unfaithful to the comics, by creating atrocities as the "Deadpool". Yes, Deadpool in quotes, because that's not a Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds was not even a convincing Wade Wilson.
It has awful cinematography, overrated screenplay and exaggeration on CGI. This could never have happened. Worst super-hero thematic movie ever… Expand

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noob328Dec 8, 2020

Decent potential destroyed before the first day of filming. Baffling decisions by the writers

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