X-men Origins: Wolverine

X-men Origins: Wolverine (2009) starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Will i Am, and Ryan Reynolds.

Before...excited would be an utter understatement. Reynolds as Deadpool was the most exciting prospect I had heard in a long time. He was the PERFECT casting. In interviews he himself had said how much he loved the character. A film with Jackman as Wolverine, Schreiber as Sabretooth and Reynolds as Deadpool surely means perfection...right?

James "Wolverine" Howlett sees Thomas Logan, Victor Creed's father, kill Thomas Howlett his father. In an act of vengeance James' bone claws come out, for the first time, and he drives them into Thomas Logan's chest. With his dying breathe he tells James that he is in fact his father. As they both grow up Creed and James Logan (he changed his name in honour of his dead father) and become part of an elite government team. The team is run by William Stryker (Huston) and as well as Logan(Jackman) and Creed(Screiber) the team contains Wraith (a transporter), The Blob (superhuman strength), Bolt (controls electricity), Agent Zero (expert marksman) and Deadpool (sword wielding merc) (Reynolds). After seeing far too much death, Logan leaves the team. He finds a gf and lives a happy life with her...until that is Sabretooth kills her to punish Logan for leaving him. Logan teams back up with Huston who covers his body in Adamantium, helping him to become indestructible and to take his vengeance on Sabretooth...

So plot...to put it mildly it is a confused and jumbled mess. Crammed with far too many characters the film tries to give the fans exactly what they wanted, and because of that they fail to concentrate on getting the best out of the characters. Wraith, Blob, Bolt, Agent Zero, Deadpool, Wolverine, Sabretooth and Gambit. If this was an ensemble like X-men was thenit would be ok, but the fact there are 8 characters trying to vie for top mutant means that the world Gavin Hood created collapses around them.

Another problem I have with the film is the killing off of superhero's, I won't say who for the sake of spoiling the movie, but I just hate when movies have to resort to killing off characters without much reason. There are comic books that succeed in not killing off characters, Daredevil springs to mind immediately. So why does this movie feel it necessary to do the same?

Focusing in on the wrong characters...another failure of this movie. Deadpool is a fantastic character and Reynolds is PERFECT in the role. I cannot think of a more perfect casting at the time of writing this. The wit and the charisma that he puts into his role is astounding. Particularly due to the fact that he is only in the film for 10-20 minutes at the most.

What more can I say about this film? Actioned filled? Yes. Fun? Yes. But worthy of using all of the mutants...no absolutely not. Hood in my view has almost destroyed the universe that Wolverine is in. Thankfully I know it will make enough money to produce sequels and spin-off. I know for a fact that there is a Deadpool spinoff and a Wolverine Origins sequel too in the pipe line. Lets just hope they choose another director, and scriptwriter for those films.

All in all I was highly disappointed in this film. It just didn't hold together well at all. Here's hoping for the future.

★★☆☆☆