X-men Origins: Wolverine
Sam Barnett Ryan McDermott
For every exceptional movie made in Hollywood there are at least a thousand truly awful movies drowning the movie theatres and DVD rental establishments in excrement. Although enjoying sales success, topping the box office and making a huge profit to me Wolverine was a blatant waste of my time and money. There is no arguing the production values, marketability and the draw of rising screen star Hugh Jackman, (playing the central character Wolverine), at times drew myself in to the plot. However these positives were negligible compared to the plethora of faults I had to endure throughout the film.
The premise of the film is sound enough, exploring the origins of one of the main characters in the X-men franchise. Also from a businessman’s point of view the success of origins spells at least another three successful multi million dollar movies for your bank balance to look forward to. However having not been a financier of the film I can only contribute my opinion on the quality of the film.
X-men Origins starts off in a Nostalgic pre Civil War setting with two step brothers one from a so called respectable upbringing, (that being Wolverine) and one from a dirt poor family with an abusive alcoholic father. Wolverine is sick in bed tended to by his well to do father and mother, whilst ?, angrily broods. Suddenly ?’s violently alcoholic father is heard screaming downstairs. Upon answering the door the well to do father is shot dead, inciting Wolverines fury, subsequently morphing claws which are then rammed in to the alcoholic gunman. The plot thickens as it is then disclosed that the alcoholic he killed is in fact both the children’s fathers. Luchious then drags his now Brother in to the woods teaching him the ways of the world and how to look after yourself.
Both Brothers actively partake in every war in American history since the Civil War, (being invincible and all that). This is about when the plot lost all credibility and it soon became clear it was another one of those pro American war mongering films which are not worth the cost of the disc they were printed on. This pro American trend continued throughout the film sensationalizing violence at every point.
Wolverine then falls in with a rural farming community instigating a superfluity of PG 13 jokes designed to fry the intelligence whilst giving you a warm feeling inside. There is then a major conflict between Luscious and Wolverine, blah, blah, blah more of the same monotonous material that made Wolverine such a big box office hit.
To describe the rest of the plot would be a waste of everyone’s time and would require numbing my brain for longer than I feel comfortable with. I would recommend that you see this movie so you can get some insight in to the direction in which the Republican Party will get its future support.
For every exceptional movie made in Hollywood there are at least a thousand truly awful movies drowning the movie theatres and DVD rental establishments in excrement. Although enjoying sales success, topping the box office and making a huge profit to me Wolverine was a blatant waste of my time and money. There is no arguing the production values, marketability and the draw of rising screen star Hugh Jackman, (playing the central character Wolverine), at times drew myself in to the plot. However these positives were negligible compared to the plethora of faults I had to endure throughout the film.
The premise of the film is sound enough, exploring the origins of one of the main characters in the X-men franchise. Also from a businessman’s point of view the success of origins spells at least another three successful multi million dollar movies for your bank balance to look forward to. However having not been a financier of the film I can only contribute my opinion on the quality of the film.
X-men Origins starts off in a Nostalgic pre Civil War setting with two step brothers one from a so called respectable upbringing, (that being Wolverine) and one from a dirt poor family with an abusive alcoholic father. Wolverine is sick in bed tended to by his well to do father and mother, whilst ?, angrily broods. Suddenly ?’s violently alcoholic father is heard screaming downstairs. Upon answering the door the well to do father is shot dead, inciting Wolverines fury, subsequently morphing claws which are then rammed in to the alcoholic gunman. The plot thickens as it is then disclosed that the alcoholic he killed is in fact both the children’s fathers. Luchious then drags his now Brother in to the woods teaching him the ways of the world and how to look after yourself.
Both Brothers actively partake in every war in American history since the Civil War, (being invincible and all that). This is about when the plot lost all credibility and it soon became clear it was another one of those pro American war mongering films which are not worth the cost of the disc they were printed on. This pro American trend continued throughout the film sensationalizing violence at every point.
Wolverine then falls in with a rural farming community instigating a superfluity of PG 13 jokes designed to fry the intelligence whilst giving you a warm feeling inside. There is then a major conflict between Luscious and Wolverine, blah, blah, blah more of the same monotonous material that made Wolverine such a big box office hit.
To describe the rest of the plot would be a waste of everyone’s time and would require numbing my brain for longer than I feel comfortable with. I would recommend that you see this movie so you can get some insight in to the direction in which the Republican Party will get its future support.
2 out of 5
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