It's like this. The plot is a tad muddled. The comic book backstory of Wolverine is more than a bit muddled. And frankly, quite ridiculous. Be glad the movie has no Elsyee Dee, or Shiva, or any character related to Wolverine/ Weapon X protocol from the early '90's (Pre Weapon Plus...if you really care enough pick up the Grant Morisson run or google it). So, yeah to that end it works...I mean at it's core most of the Wolverine origin is really fucking silly in the comics. There's robots, clones, a 10 year old James Howlett in a night dress, contradictions galore, retreads and maddening retcons. So, given that I was willing to cut them some slack on the plot.
Commence the mild spoil/fanboy bitching
Zero's a goddamn teleporting android. Just had to say that that guy should have just been Garisson Kane before getting robot arms, just saying. Okay, As a whole the movies alright. I went in with very very low expectations, (as my one friend hated the shit out of it) and I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't total ass. Also, I...well...yeah...I engaged in my pre movie ritual to a great extent. It makes every movie better. With a movie like this you really have to do that to enjoy it. So, yeah, the ways they try to fit this movie into the rest of the X-men franchise is just silly. And they don't address how Sabretooth is a giant borderline retarded fellow in the first movie. Which is odd. I mean that's the troubling one really. So, that's a little inelegant. What else. Half of the visual effects work and half of them really, really don't: Cyclops eye beams yes, Emma Frost diamonding up no, John Wraith teleort yes, Wade Wilson's repeated butterfly move not so much. Which is another thing: I just don't agree with some of the choices that they made visually. Pretty much half of the effects work in the movie and half don't. It's like the trailers for the movie half of it looks awesome and half of it looks silly, and that's the movie.
Aside from that it could use some more Deadpool and some more Gambit and some more time spent with Team X (even if they're never referred to as that). And it could also use some Fantomex...I'm a big fan of Fantomex who is not in the movie. And Hugh Jackman brings the same Wolverine that you've probably enjoyed in the other X-men movies. Pretty much, there are a lot of quips, some ridiculous plot points (I feel that the ridiculous plot points speak to the nature of the character's comic origins, as mentioned), some action scenes that work, and some that really don't.
Look, it's the fucking Wolverine movie it's a summer popcorn flick it's not supposed to be Bergman. It's silly and bombastic and loud. Some people like that, I like that, if you like that you'll like the movie. It's not the Dark Knight, but it's not supposed to be. So my final review is s'okay. Watch a trailer and gauge your opinion based on that. Because it's one of those cases where the movie is pretty accurately represented by the trailers.
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