X-Men Origins: Wolverine
May 1, 2009 8:16:44 GMT -5
Post by Stu on May 1, 2009 8:16:44 GMT -5
Just saw it. It's fun, but a bit lacking, I'd say. They put an emphasis on Quantity over Quality, and as a result a lot of the elements of it aren't as developed or extended as I would have thought, so the film isn't really more than the sum of its parts.
The Good
-Jackman was good as Logan, though I do feel he wasn't as wild/angry as he should have been (more on that later)
-Schreiber was a lot better than I expected as Sabretooth, and I sorta wish now he'd been in X-Men 1 (and that Sabretooth hadn't disappeared after that)
-Most of the supporting characters were well done. Gambit and Wade Wilson particularly. Agent Zero was a cool baddie and Monaghan's little bit as Bolt was enjoyable. The Blob's brief appearance later was funny too.
-I did find it rather funny when it was intended to be, with the dialogue and stuff like Wolverine being afraid of flying and his interactions with Gambit
-Surprise (albeit creepy) cameo!
Bad
-The supporting cast being spread a bit thin and not being used as much
-Weapon XI felt pretty tacked on
-Wolverine felt really restrained in what he did. I actually think he has a bigger bodycount in X2 than here. The climax should have seen him having to tear through dozens of soldiers BEFORE getting to Stryker. Also, every time he and Sabretooth have a fight, it ends just as they're getting warmed up
-a few "Who thought changing that was a good idea?" moments, like with
-The coda they put early into the credits is pretty pointless if you've seen X2, isn't it?
The Good
-Jackman was good as Logan, though I do feel he wasn't as wild/angry as he should have been (more on that later)
-Schreiber was a lot better than I expected as Sabretooth, and I sorta wish now he'd been in X-Men 1 (and that Sabretooth hadn't disappeared after that)
-Most of the supporting characters were well done. Gambit and Wade Wilson particularly. Agent Zero was a cool baddie and Monaghan's little bit as Bolt was enjoyable. The Blob's brief appearance later was funny too.
-I did find it rather funny when it was intended to be, with the dialogue and stuff like Wolverine being afraid of flying and his interactions with Gambit
-Surprise (albeit creepy) cameo!
Bad
-The supporting cast being spread a bit thin and not being used as much
-Weapon XI felt pretty tacked on
-Wolverine felt really restrained in what he did. I actually think he has a bigger bodycount in X2 than here. The climax should have seen him having to tear through dozens of soldiers BEFORE getting to Stryker. Also, every time he and Sabretooth have a fight, it ends just as they're getting warmed up
-a few "Who thought changing that was a good idea?" moments, like with
Deadpool's transformation, though if he gets a spinoff, being decapitated could be used to explain him going nuts and forgetting how to use all his powers except the healing, while he could always cut himself a new mouth hole, and Emma Frost not being a telepath, though I can certainly understand them focussing on the secondary mutation with the other telepaths in the movie, and if she got used again, she could suddenly develop the mental powers anyway
-The coda they put early into the credits is pretty pointless if you've seen X2, isn't it?