X-Men Origins – Wolverine (2009) 7/10

Starring : Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Liev Schreiber, Dominic Monaghan
Director : Gavin Hood
Running Time : 107 mins

James Logan (Jackman) is a mutant, with a healing factor and bony claw that come out of the back of his hands. After he accidentally kills his father, he and his step-brother Victor Creed (Schreiber) run away from home and ultimately join a government group comprised of mutants. However, Victor’s murderous tendencies soon come to the fore when he murders Logan’s girlfriend, but the two soon have to fight side by side when they are faced with a new enemy – Weapon XI (Reynolds)!

This wasn’t that bad – I’m sure action fans will love it if that’s all they watch this for – but it really messed around with comic book continuity. Destroying the character of Deadpool by turning him into a one-dimensional killing machine might have been bad enough, but the relationship between Wolverine and Sabretooth made no sense as they clearly didn’t know each other very well in the X-Men movies, yet grew up together here.

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