Movie Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Much as I went into The Fellowship of the Ring caring more about Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen than I ever could about JRR Tolkien, my interest in X-Men Origins: Wolverine stems from the involvement of Gavin Hood and Hugh Jackman, and not from the legacy of X-Men comic books. Having said that, I rather liked Singer’s X-Men, loved X2 and probably thought more of The Last Stand than most people, so I do have a context in which I have invested in Wolverine-slash-Logan before.

Have Gavin Hood and his collaborators fashioned a film that can make me invest again, or dare I hope it, even make me invest more?

The opening scene kept me guessing as to how successful the film would ultimately be. It serves as a super-quick introduction to Logan’s rage and guilt, which are given as some kind of inner drive for him and visualised in the form of a howling motif we will see again and again.

Warning! This review has spoilers at the end!

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X-Men Origins Wolverine USA RF XBOX360-PROTOCOL

Scene group PROTOCOL have just released X-Men Origins Wolverine for the Xbox 360 which obviously is a game based on the movie that is coming out. The game is due out on May 1st, so you can enjoy it a few days early.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is an action-adventure featuring a true-to-character Wolverine gameplay experience that takes gamers through and beyond the movie’s storyline.

Awesome! That's today!

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'Wolverine': Producer discusses Internet leak at premiere

Just days away from opening in thousands of theaters across the country, X-Men Origins: Wolverine continues to contend with lingering curiosity over the scandal that erupted last month when a bootleg copy of the film appeared online. At Wolverine's L.A. premiere on Tuesday night, producer Lauren Shuler Donner told EW that the person or people responsible for the leak still haven't been caught. "We may never figure out who did it, and that pisses me off," she said. "It's hard enough in this economy to get these types of films made, and if enough people bootleg and don't go to the theater, we won't be able to make these movies anymore." In the meantime, industry sages are focusing their energies on preventing future leaks of this magnitude. "I don't know how we protect ourselves," Shuler Donner said. "Studios are working on it, and 3D keeps getting mentioned because you can't download 3D. But I don't want to make every movie in 3D. We gotta figure something out because it will kill the industry if what happened to us starts happening to everybody."

If it's any consolation, I know many fans will still watch the final, big-screen version.

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