09-05-2009, 07:32 PM
I've just returned home from seeing this at the cinema and my feelings about it are pretty much 50/50.
On the plus side, it was a good movie to watch. There's some great action scenes through the movie and some wicked fights that live up to what modern action movies fans expect, with that extra mutant bonus. It was also gratifying to finally see Wolverine opening a few cans of butt-kick as the character should. In the previous 3 movies he was portrayed as little more than a bar room brawler with claws who was no match for other mutant/super powered fighters and was constantly being beaten up, by girls on several occasions. He wasn't given the title of the best at what he does for nothing. Unfortunately when you look past the action the movie plummets into a great deep hole.
I admit I expected the makers of the film to take a bit of artistic license, i've seen enough comic movies to realise the buggers can't help themselves. But I found myself wondering if they even bothered looking into the story before they made this one. Wolverine's history is certainly eventful, and definately has no shortage of good characters to use. Even with this mass of resources to draw on, they instead changed events completely with little of the movie following the events as depicted in the comics. Instead of drawing on the wealth of characters available to them they've introduced characters Wolverine won't meet for years to come, changing some in such major ways that they aren't the same characters at all.
I admit that as a fan of the character I was sorely dissappointed. People unfamiliar with his origin story will most likely enjoy the move a great deal. But to me it seems more like they've just stolen some characters from Marvel instead of coming up with their own and slapped them into a script of their own making. I give it 4/10, and only because i'm an action fan.
On the plus side, it was a good movie to watch. There's some great action scenes through the movie and some wicked fights that live up to what modern action movies fans expect, with that extra mutant bonus. It was also gratifying to finally see Wolverine opening a few cans of butt-kick as the character should. In the previous 3 movies he was portrayed as little more than a bar room brawler with claws who was no match for other mutant/super powered fighters and was constantly being beaten up, by girls on several occasions. He wasn't given the title of the best at what he does for nothing. Unfortunately when you look past the action the movie plummets into a great deep hole.
I admit I expected the makers of the film to take a bit of artistic license, i've seen enough comic movies to realise the buggers can't help themselves. But I found myself wondering if they even bothered looking into the story before they made this one. Wolverine's history is certainly eventful, and definately has no shortage of good characters to use. Even with this mass of resources to draw on, they instead changed events completely with little of the movie following the events as depicted in the comics. Instead of drawing on the wealth of characters available to them they've introduced characters Wolverine won't meet for years to come, changing some in such major ways that they aren't the same characters at all.
I admit that as a fan of the character I was sorely dissappointed. People unfamiliar with his origin story will most likely enjoy the move a great deal. But to me it seems more like they've just stolen some characters from Marvel instead of coming up with their own and slapped them into a script of their own making. I give it 4/10, and only because i'm an action fan.