Movie Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
When I read comic books in my youth, I always loved the “origin of” issues, which told me about he beginnings of my favorite super heroes. I was a big reader and collector of X-Men comics, of course, and have enjoyed the previous three movies to greater and lesser degrees. This movie is a prequel, the story of how the most popular of the X-Men, the character Wolverine came to be, as well as the X-Men themselves.
Hugh Jackman, hot off hosting the Academy Awards shows that he’s not just a pretty face who can sing and dance. In this movie he’s as buff as he’s ever been, on a high-protein diet, with hour and a half daily workouts.
Filmed in New South Wales, Australia, the scenery is gorgeous. The special effects are rather different than many action films you’ve seen and the fight sequences are quite acrobatic.
Sure this is a summer popcorn movie. There is little plot to get in the way of the action.
Grade: B
You’ll like it if: you like non-stop action, fight sequences, vehicle chases, exploding things, with little time to breathe.
You won’t like it if: you prefer character development or have an aversion to violence.
