#1 Review: X-men Origins: Wolverine
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:35 pm
yes, I realize this movie isn't officiall out yet, however, having seen it a few weeks ago I figured I might as well post up a short review.
Spoilers of course...
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First off, I felt the paceing of the movie wasn't right. Granted the version I saw wasn't technically complete, however the opening bits going through his childhood felt very rushed to me and didn't explain very much or give any sort of real feeling towards the characters or the events that lead up to the father's death or the events immediately following.
The movie also completely seems to ignore any history he had in Japan during his life and doesn't mention it at all...
It also rewrites bits of the Weapon program, Weapon X, Weapon XI, etc...
That being said, I loved Deadpool, though I loathed Weapon XI Deadpool, who now apparenatly had Cyclops' eye beams, Wraith's teleportation, etc. Don't remember Cyclops, Quick Silver or some of the others getting kidnapped by Stryker & Sabertooth and their genes used for XI. But then again I openly admit I didn't intensely read all of Marvel Comics so I could have missed this plotline somewhere...
But Deadpool I liked. Agent Zero/Maverick I could take or leave, his powers seemed to have been rewritten for the movie a bit. Which leads us to Gambit.
Gambit, in this movie, I liked. He was a badass and was played how Gambit should be played. I enjoyed his preformance.
The relationship with Wolverine and Sabertooth I think wasn't done right, but that may just be me. The ending, likewise, I felt was lacking. But oh well...
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Spoilers of course...
[spoilers]
First off, I felt the paceing of the movie wasn't right. Granted the version I saw wasn't technically complete, however the opening bits going through his childhood felt very rushed to me and didn't explain very much or give any sort of real feeling towards the characters or the events that lead up to the father's death or the events immediately following.
The movie also completely seems to ignore any history he had in Japan during his life and doesn't mention it at all...
It also rewrites bits of the Weapon program, Weapon X, Weapon XI, etc...
That being said, I loved Deadpool, though I loathed Weapon XI Deadpool, who now apparenatly had Cyclops' eye beams, Wraith's teleportation, etc. Don't remember Cyclops, Quick Silver or some of the others getting kidnapped by Stryker & Sabertooth and their genes used for XI. But then again I openly admit I didn't intensely read all of Marvel Comics so I could have missed this plotline somewhere...
But Deadpool I liked. Agent Zero/Maverick I could take or leave, his powers seemed to have been rewritten for the movie a bit. Which leads us to Gambit.
Gambit, in this movie, I liked. He was a badass and was played how Gambit should be played. I enjoyed his preformance.
The relationship with Wolverine and Sabertooth I think wasn't done right, but that may just be me. The ending, likewise, I felt was lacking. But oh well...
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