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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
So the summer blockbusters or lacklusters, as some might refer to this as, are here. While I'm not entirely crazy about the title choice they decided to go with, Wolverine does a great job at condensing this origin story, but falters on any other character that's in the film.
Hugh Jackman, reprising his role as the adamantium-clawed X-Man Wolverine, doesn't look any different here than he did in any of the three other X-Men films. He's captured the essence of Wolverine and made it his own, which makes for good translation into his first solo film.
There are new faces throughout, for instance, Sabretooth is played by Liev Schreiber vice Taylor Mane from the first film, X-Men. Also, Colonel William Stryker is played by Danny Huston instead of Brian Cox from X-2. These "subtle" changes don't take away anything from this experience, in my opinion, Schreiber does better at portraying Victor Creed than does Mane. Not to mention, he speaks more.
Other than casting changes, other things one might notice is the cheap looking CGI throughout the film. This is something that you will really only notice if you're looking for it. Some scenes, it's more noticeable than others, but it doesn't kill the film, either.
My biggest complaint with the film is their take on Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds). He's got a couple of scenes in the beginning of the film and that's pretty much it. After that, what is referred to as Deadpool might upset you.
For Gavin Hood, he did a mediocre job of bringing the origin of one of the more popular Marvel characters to the screen, his blending of scenes to somewhat match up with flashback scenes in X-2 worked quite well, but sadly a lot of other scenes and characters bring the film down from a joygasm to the levels of say Ghost Rider.
All in all, Hood did a commendable job taking on an X-Men character after Brett Ratner butchered the series with X-3. If you're one of those individuals who hasn't seen the leaked version, take it for what it is as a superhero film. After all, it's worthy of at least a matinee ticket to see.
So the summer blockbusters or lacklusters, as some might refer to this as, are here. While I'm not entirely crazy about the title choice they decided to go with, Wolverine does a great job at condensing this origin story, but falters on any other character that's in the film.
Hugh Jackman, reprising his role as the adamantium-clawed X-Man Wolverine, doesn't look any different here than he did in any of the three other X-Men films. He's captured the essence of Wolverine and made it his own, which makes for good translation into his first solo film.
There are new faces throughout, for instance, Sabretooth is played by Liev Schreiber vice Taylor Mane from the first film, X-Men. Also, Colonel William Stryker is played by Danny Huston instead of Brian Cox from X-2. These "subtle" changes don't take away anything from this experience, in my opinion, Schreiber does better at portraying Victor Creed than does Mane. Not to mention, he speaks more.
Other than casting changes, other things one might notice is the cheap looking CGI throughout the film. This is something that you will really only notice if you're looking for it. Some scenes, it's more noticeable than others, but it doesn't kill the film, either.
My biggest complaint with the film is their take on Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds). He's got a couple of scenes in the beginning of the film and that's pretty much it. After that, what is referred to as Deadpool might upset you.
For Gavin Hood, he did a mediocre job of bringing the origin of one of the more popular Marvel characters to the screen, his blending of scenes to somewhat match up with flashback scenes in X-2 worked quite well, but sadly a lot of other scenes and characters bring the film down from a joygasm to the levels of say Ghost Rider.
All in all, Hood did a commendable job taking on an X-Men character after Brett Ratner butchered the series with X-3. If you're one of those individuals who hasn't seen the leaked version, take it for what it is as a superhero film. After all, it's worthy of at least a matinee ticket to see.