Wolverine
Wolverine: The ultimate revenge against people who key your car.Okay, this movie was all over the place. They had so many interesting characters, but they spent no amount of time on any one person besides Wolverine. You would be like, "Hey! That person's power is so awesome! I wonder where they came..." And before you finish that sentence, the character has either died or left the scene. Even the people without powers would only be in the film for a short time. I feel like the movie should have come with a pop up video feature so that as the scene is going on, little bubbles come up explaining where the character came from and why they are important. If they were a mutant, I'd also like a detailed description as to what their power is. Like Ryan Reynolds (Wade). Is his power super fast reflexes, or just kick-ass sword wielding? Same with Agent Zero. Is he all about the reflexes or gun control? I think at one point he moved his guns without touching them, so then I considered he might be telekinetic. It was so fast I couldn't really keep track.
Anyway, back to the movie. The plot starts out with Logan's dad being murdered by his biological father who was (surprise, surprise) a mutant. This is the same day Logan realizes he is a mutant, too, because he was born with bone claws (not metal). He and his brother, the consistently creepy Liev Schreiber, set off and join the army, but are soon discovered as mutants when Schreiber turns against his own men.
They heal too quickly, so neither dies at the hands of a firing squad, and are instead recruited by Stryker, an army general putting together a team of high powered mutants for special missions. This is when all the action sequences start to go down with the hard to keep track of mutant powers. I was happy to see Dominic Monaghan as one of the mutant squad, but he wasn't in the film too much. Logan quickly decides the missions he and his brother are on are not for the greater good and leaves the team for a simple life in Canada. He shacks up with the fiance from 13 Going on 30, but you know something bad has to happen to her for him to become the Wolverine from the X-Men movies.
After the incident, Wolverine agrees to be injected with the alien metal to make himself strong enough to kill the enemy, but quickly discovers that he might not know who the real enemy is. He goes on the run, meeting up with whom I assumed were Uncle Ben and Aunt May from the Spiderman franchise, and gets the whole "Be the better person" speech. Then he tracks down the old members of the mutant squad to figure out what happened after he left, and to find out who is responsible for everything that has happened to him.
Even MORE mutants are introduced, including Gambit, who I still am not sure exactly what he does, and Emma Frost, a rather....shiny.....person. I think she is a descendant of the Cullen family because of the way she can *sparkle*.
The end is pretty good. There is a big twist and a battle between Wolverine and the hardest opponent ever (I feel like video game fans everywhere about peed their pants imagining how they would beat this guy). They also wrap up how Wolverine lost his memory to create the bridge to the X-Men series. I was pleased with the last 30 minutes or so, but it would have been cool to throw in him meeting Rogue to come full circle, but I guess the end came to that point close enough. They include Scott Summers/Cyclops in the movie as a teenager and show how he met Professor X, but since Patrick Stewart is CGI'd for the film, it's kind of ridiculous. I think they should have just hired a stand in and shown him from the back. The audience is smart enough to make the connection.
Another 3 star movie. I liked the plot because it was sensible and made me want to re-watch X2 to see all the different movie connections. It could have been better by using fewer mutants and developing their back stories more instead of being showy with all the different types of powers. Although, I have to admit I was amused by playing the "Guess what I can do?" game when a new mutant was introduced. It reminded me of how I felt when I watched the Final Destination movies and tried to think out how a death sequence would play out as it was being set up.
If you like the X-Men movies, go see Wolverine. If not, maybe pass for now and catch it later on DVD or television.
Anyway, back to the movie. The plot starts out with Logan's dad being murdered by his biological father who was (surprise, surprise) a mutant. This is the same day Logan realizes he is a mutant, too, because he was born with bone claws (not metal). He and his brother, the consistently creepy Liev Schreiber, set off and join the army, but are soon discovered as mutants when Schreiber turns against his own men.
They heal too quickly, so neither dies at the hands of a firing squad, and are instead recruited by Stryker, an army general putting together a team of high powered mutants for special missions. This is when all the action sequences start to go down with the hard to keep track of mutant powers. I was happy to see Dominic Monaghan as one of the mutant squad, but he wasn't in the film too much. Logan quickly decides the missions he and his brother are on are not for the greater good and leaves the team for a simple life in Canada. He shacks up with the fiance from 13 Going on 30, but you know something bad has to happen to her for him to become the Wolverine from the X-Men movies.
After the incident, Wolverine agrees to be injected with the alien metal to make himself strong enough to kill the enemy, but quickly discovers that he might not know who the real enemy is. He goes on the run, meeting up with whom I assumed were Uncle Ben and Aunt May from the Spiderman franchise, and gets the whole "Be the better person" speech. Then he tracks down the old members of the mutant squad to figure out what happened after he left, and to find out who is responsible for everything that has happened to him.
Even MORE mutants are introduced, including Gambit, who I still am not sure exactly what he does, and Emma Frost, a rather....shiny.....person. I think she is a descendant of the Cullen family because of the way she can *sparkle*.
The end is pretty good. There is a big twist and a battle between Wolverine and the hardest opponent ever (I feel like video game fans everywhere about peed their pants imagining how they would beat this guy). They also wrap up how Wolverine lost his memory to create the bridge to the X-Men series. I was pleased with the last 30 minutes or so, but it would have been cool to throw in him meeting Rogue to come full circle, but I guess the end came to that point close enough. They include Scott Summers/Cyclops in the movie as a teenager and show how he met Professor X, but since Patrick Stewart is CGI'd for the film, it's kind of ridiculous. I think they should have just hired a stand in and shown him from the back. The audience is smart enough to make the connection.
Another 3 star movie. I liked the plot because it was sensible and made me want to re-watch X2 to see all the different movie connections. It could have been better by using fewer mutants and developing their back stories more instead of being showy with all the different types of powers. Although, I have to admit I was amused by playing the "Guess what I can do?" game when a new mutant was introduced. It reminded me of how I felt when I watched the Final Destination movies and tried to think out how a death sequence would play out as it was being set up.
If you like the X-Men movies, go see Wolverine. If not, maybe pass for now and catch it later on DVD or television.
LOL! I like the caption for this picture as well! XD
ReplyDeleteAlso, the "sparkle" comment caused me to LOL awkwardly in the Campus Computer Lab :P Thanks, Kelly :P
I really like your reviews btw! So legit, haha. :)
I'm glad you like the captions Erin! I literally sit there and think of the first thing that comes to mind with the picture and type it. So far, it's been amusing.
ReplyDeleteI figured Twilight readers would enjoy the sparkle reference ;)
And thanks for the support on the blog! After talking over the idea with you, I just went for it.