Fun fact: Hugh Jackman and Christopher Reeve are the only two actors to play a comic book character in four consecutive movies.

Jackman= X-Men, X2:X-Men United, X3:The Last Stand, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Reeve= Superman The Movie, Superman II, Superman III, and Superman IV:The Quest For Peace

And failing to notice that she was still alive he left her “corpse” in the middle of the woods?

ooooooooooooooooooook.

This movie SUCKED. It was embarassing. Why in the hell can’t these people just FOLLOW THE DAMN COMIC BOOK! There is a reason millions of people read these books, it’s because THEY LIKE THEM. Why mess with that? Why? You have a built in fanbase that just wants to see these characters come to life and you take a foul, disgusting, slimy crap all over them! I just don’t get it…

It’s so depressing.

Is making a movie really that hard? I mean, really?

Firstly, it was too short. I can imagine with how long the comics have been around that Wolvie has a long and interesting history before he meets up with the X-men. I can’t fantom a movie being able to go into so much depth as a 200+ issue comic series in a just under 2 hour movie. And it was obvious that they chose the route of just watering down one story arc, keeping the main characters and conflicts but never go into too much detail. Then they realized the movie would be entirely too short for a summer blockbuster and decided to add cameos and use pointless fight scenes to make up for the rest instead of just revamping the script. Seriously, haven’t movie-goers proved with Watchmen, Titanic, The Dark Knight, and others that we don’t all have ADD and can sit through a movie for longer than 90 minutes?

Second, the writer was extremely lazy. The dialogue wasn’t horrible but some of the one-liners were wince-inducingly mediocre. The plot twists, made the weak story somewhat tastier but still couldn’t make up for the lack of real substance.I actually didn’t mind the whole brothers turned enemies premise (cliche as it was) but the script refused to delve any deeper than your average low-budget “final fight” film. The character is the goody two shoes, his brother is the raging bull. Big bro beats the tar out of him, he goes after him and has to get stronger and fight his way through enemies then at the end, Big bro has a little change of heart and soft spot for his little bro. Nothing extraordinary at all. All they did was give them superpowers.

And third, the characters. I’m actually a person who enjoys those cool little brief encounters with characters in the same ‘universe’. I love Gambit, was tickled at the Cyclops tie-in and thought SilverFox, Emma Frost and the others were cool to see but it contributed absolutely NOTHING to the plot. If you want to have them included in the movie then INCLUDE them. Make their characters seem like they’re actually supposed to be there. I swear I wanted to beat my head against the wall when Gambit suddenly decided to attack Wolverine when his real enemy, Sabretooth, is about to be done in by him. WTF? It made absolutely NO sense! ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, sounds like a code a guy like Gambit would go by… not THIS Gambit though.Then the whole mutant breakout sequence was just distraction from the anti-climatic final battle. This whole movie seemed like just another X-men movie with Wolverine as the fore-runner (which was all of them, actually).

But still, I saw it with my family and enjoyed it. For all the flaws, it had a lot of action and cool cameos (oh, the cameos) so it’s like another Transformers to me. Plenty of eye candy to sastify you at the theater but no real meat to stick to your system hours later.

I’d give it a 7/10: Only because it was better than all three of the X-men movies but considering how bland those were, that’s not saying much. And despite the flaws in character devolpment and writing, the cast did very well (especially loved Reynolds as Deadpool and Emma Frost was a total babe), and the actions sequences (though loud and dumb) were still impressive.

In my opinion, no x-men movie has fully captured Wolverine properly. Wolverine’s healing factor has been butchered each time as it’s been completely inconsistent throughout every movie. His healing factor is used to fit plot devices – example this wound will heal instantly onscreen while this same other wound will cause him to be unconscious for hours because we need him to pass out at this point in the moive. This isn’t diehard star trekkie fan nitpicking details, this is creating and grounding a character, so at least he has some sort of realism. His animal senses are almost ignored altogether or extremely inconsistant throughout all the movies. These powers are characteristics that defined Wolverine. If audience members had some sort of idea how quickly Wolverine could heal, as in some sort of set healing rate, this might actually create suspense it parts of the movie, where maybe he has to avoid taking too much damage at once. Yes, mutants have powers, but they’re not Indianna Jones invinceable.
Deadpool’s initial action scene IMHO was just retarded. Is his power super speed? or Amazing deflecto all bullets from all directions with swords? Like common… put some thought and realism into an action scene!! Otherwise you’re left with a character like Superman where kriptonite doesn’t exist Same thing happened with Zero dispatching all those guys earlier…
The movie tried to show scenes of vulnerability with Wolverine but failed miserably. His conflict with beserker rage was a joke. Imagine if he had killed an innocent while in beserker rage, or his rage lead to the death of a loved one, instantly, introduction of at least some form of conflict, but no…. nothing in the movie
Just too much wrong with the movie…

The script should have been completely rewritten so that wouldn’t be the problem. The entire film was an endless barrage of pointless cameos.

And how did Wolvie’s claws end up looking bad–worse than the X1? Can’t imagine how bad the workprint must have been…

I’ve already seen you do that a hundred times, so I’d rather not.

Why don’t you pull your lip over your head and SHWALLOWW???