Post by dvdjunkie on May 2, 2009 9:33:25 GMT -6
I know Larry is waiting to hear how this film is, and I will tell everyone that unless you like 'no-point, brainless mind-fodder, no story, just action' films, then avoid this one like the plague it is.
Someone in the hierarchy of Twentieth Century Fox motion pictures blew this one big time. Oh yes, the trailers make it look like a story behind the story of how Wolverine came about, but you will be sorely disappointed if you have that in mind when you go see this film. It is very disjointed, there are three or four sequences that have nothing to do with the other, and seem to be just put in the movie because the public wants to see Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) half-naked and flexing his biceps and six-pack abs (which he admittedly spent seven months in the gym working on and looks like it!).
The movie starts out very pleasingly with a short prologue about two step-brothers, one is very much of a young man, the other very sickly. The abusive step-father comes home in a drunken rage one night, and the sickly boy suddenly clinches his fists and these little knives come out of the top of his knuckles. There is no explanation as to how he developed these powers, or where he learned he could do this or anything, so we start the film in a partial state of confusion.
After the opening credits we are told it is several years later and Logan (Jackman) and his half-brother Creed (Liev Schreiber, who also went to the gym and bulked up and looks pretty menacing when he turns into Sabretooth) are in the US Army paratroops. We see them kill several enemy and escaping unhurt even though we also see bullets penetrating them and we don't know why they are impervious to these killing tools.
The boys split up, again not really explained clearly as to why, and Logan goes off to Canada to work high in the mountains as a tree-topper. Creed stays in the military working for Capt. William Stryker (Danny Huston).
Logan has a girlfriend and even their tender moments seem rushed because the action is so quick to develop and comes at you from all sides. The story never really develops, and unless you are totally a fan of the comic books, you don't really understand what the heck is going on.
The girl is supposedly killed, by Sabretooth, and this drives Logan to accept the offer from Stryker to become part of the mutant Weapon X program, and thusly he totally becomes Wolverine, dog tags and all.
Not going to spoil anymore of the movie for you, but I will give it a weak 2.5 out of 5 stars just because it is non-stop action and entertainment. I will take away the other two and a half points because it is nowhere near the caliber of the comic book movies "Iron Man", "The Dark Knight" and "Watchmen".
My advise would be to save your money, and wait for the DVD, and then using you rent one get one free coupon, make this your free movie, that way you won't be kicking yourself for wasting money on it.
;D
Someone in the hierarchy of Twentieth Century Fox motion pictures blew this one big time. Oh yes, the trailers make it look like a story behind the story of how Wolverine came about, but you will be sorely disappointed if you have that in mind when you go see this film. It is very disjointed, there are three or four sequences that have nothing to do with the other, and seem to be just put in the movie because the public wants to see Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) half-naked and flexing his biceps and six-pack abs (which he admittedly spent seven months in the gym working on and looks like it!).
The movie starts out very pleasingly with a short prologue about two step-brothers, one is very much of a young man, the other very sickly. The abusive step-father comes home in a drunken rage one night, and the sickly boy suddenly clinches his fists and these little knives come out of the top of his knuckles. There is no explanation as to how he developed these powers, or where he learned he could do this or anything, so we start the film in a partial state of confusion.
After the opening credits we are told it is several years later and Logan (Jackman) and his half-brother Creed (Liev Schreiber, who also went to the gym and bulked up and looks pretty menacing when he turns into Sabretooth) are in the US Army paratroops. We see them kill several enemy and escaping unhurt even though we also see bullets penetrating them and we don't know why they are impervious to these killing tools.
The boys split up, again not really explained clearly as to why, and Logan goes off to Canada to work high in the mountains as a tree-topper. Creed stays in the military working for Capt. William Stryker (Danny Huston).
Logan has a girlfriend and even their tender moments seem rushed because the action is so quick to develop and comes at you from all sides. The story never really develops, and unless you are totally a fan of the comic books, you don't really understand what the heck is going on.
The girl is supposedly killed, by Sabretooth, and this drives Logan to accept the offer from Stryker to become part of the mutant Weapon X program, and thusly he totally becomes Wolverine, dog tags and all.
Not going to spoil anymore of the movie for you, but I will give it a weak 2.5 out of 5 stars just because it is non-stop action and entertainment. I will take away the other two and a half points because it is nowhere near the caliber of the comic book movies "Iron Man", "The Dark Knight" and "Watchmen".
My advise would be to save your money, and wait for the DVD, and then using you rent one get one free coupon, make this your free movie, that way you won't be kicking yourself for wasting money on it.
;D