Wolverine: Review Thread

[Afrobean]

Wait. People have seen this movie before it has premiered?

If I may interject a counterpoint to the OP:

Sloppy storytelling that plays like a string of cameos, a mutant parade across a story that is supposed to be centered around Wolverine.

Unnecessary changes from the comic source that adversely affect the story (see above about string of cameos). If it were me, I'd have developed Team X a little more too. If any mutants deserve roles in Wolverine's origin story, its these guys and I don't think they gave them enough screen time.

And finally,

[Show spoiler]a cop-out ending. Wolverine seeks vengeance throughout the majority of the film, only to find out that he had been tricked all along. That "twist" is just fine, even if expected. The problem is that during the ending, they trot out a certain Weapon XI, i.e., Deadpool. Wolverine drops his vendetta against Sabertooth and actually teams up with him for some stupid ass reason. It's just a weak bait and switch, Logan chases Sabertooth the whole time, only to learn that the puppetmaster was actually Stryker, then after having a brief angry battle with Sabertooth, decides it's more important for him to team up with Sabertooth to fight Deadpool. This cop-out honestly hurts me almost as much as the terribleness they did to Deadpool in taking away his mouth and giving him cyclops eyes. Makes even less sense when you consider that Sabertooth was working with Stryker to bring down Wolverine and should have known that Stryker had Wade Wilson "modified" and was prepared to "remote control" him against Wolverine should he show up.

But all things said, action seems to be top shelf, so depending on your personality, it's likely worth seeing if only for that. Wolverine is an interesting character who can play well with good storytelling, so it's disappointing that it misses the mark there, but it could actually be a lot worse. At least the acting and action aren't terrible.

I just wish they had focused a little better. It felt like they had a mishmash of characters from the X-men world they never got around to using, so they decided they needed to use them here for no good reason. If they had stuck to the Wolverine + Sabertooth vendetta and didn't bring in a crew of mutants to help Wolverine along the way there, I think the film would've been stronger for it.