X-Men Origins: Wolverine: I Wasn't Overwhelmed or Underwhelmed. I Was Just Whelmed

The new Wolverine movie. Oh, what to say about that. I love watching movies with a whole bunch of action and intensity in them, which was why I was excited about this movie when I first saw the trailer. I thought that the action packed scenes in the trailer were only just a taste of what was to come in the full length movie and that's I had been pumped up about. And those scenes were in there along with a few more. But for me, the movie didn't live up to the trailer.

While I enjoyed the plot for what it was worth, I paid ten bucks to see some revenge killing by Wolverine. I come to find out that he didn't even really have to kill anyone because *SPOILER ALERT* his lover wasn't even dead, and what's more, she was a mutant, too! And on top of that, she was working with the guy who was using him as a military experiment. Very Days Of Our Lives. Furthermore, I appreciate showing Gambit, *SPOILER ALERT* a mobile Professor X, and a young Cyclops, but I think that they were underdeveloped as characters in this one. For goodness sakes, Professor X was only there in the last ten minutes of the movie. I understand that the movie was about Wolverine, but for someone who has never seen any of the other X-Men movies would look at this Professor X and ask “Who’s this dude?” We can’t have that now, can we? And speaking of random dudes coming into the movie, the special ops team Viktor and Wolverine were part of in the beginning? Who was this bunch and where’d they come from?

Cinematically, I thought the movie was good. I like the use of the panoramic view when going through the Canadian Rockies and the beginning sequence when the two brothers were going through each war, From the Civil War to Korea, and then the stills they would use when they were on a killing spree throughout each one. And then at the end when the two brothers joined forces and fought back to back against “Weapon 11,” formerly known as the smart mouthed, sword slinging Wade, and Weapon 11 was using Wolverine’s power of claws and regeneration and Kestrel’s power to teleport against Viktor and Wolverine and a 360 degree shot was being used made for a more dramatic butt-kicking for both sides.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I thought that it entertained and was worth the money I paid. I loved seeing Gambit being introduced as he is one of my favorites. I loved the power struggle between brothers and the internal struggle within Wolverine between being an animal and being a human or in his case, a decent mutant. I would recommend this movie to my friends. I would just be sure to tell them that all though it is a good movie, they should be prepared to be a little disappointed on the level of “epicness” the movie actually reaches.