Monday, October 26, 2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine


You would think that Hollywood had learned how to adapt comic books into movies for audiences aged six and up after seeing the recent Batman and Iron Man movies. Sadly, after seeing this movie you realize how good those movies were and how big the margin of error can be.
We have almost everyone flying through the air, Kestrel's vanishing effect is comparable to a 70s B-movie compared to Nightcrawler in the earlier X-Men movies and some of the action scenes are just lame (e.g. Kestrel vs. Sabretooth).
To add the long list of follies we have Wolverine posing, posturing & shouting throughout the movie for what are presumably the emotional / character building scenes. However these over the top sequences stick out like rabbit teeth on an anteater.

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