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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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DVD Details
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: KaBoom
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston & Hugh Jackman | |
Performer: | will.i.am, Dominic Monaghan, Lynn Collins, Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Durand, Daniel Henney & Taylor Kitsch | |
Directed by | Gavin Hood | |
Screenwriting by | Skip Woods & David Benioff | |
Composition by | Harry Gregson-Williams | |
Produced by | Lauren Shuler Donner, John Palermo, Ralph Winter & Hugh Jackman | |
Director of Photography: | Donald McAlpine |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
So much for a clean slate.
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Quickflix
Rating: 2/5 --
Revenge soon grips Logan when his love is taken away, but Tsotsi director Gavin Hood seems bored by the sibling rivalry; even the Frankensteinian weaponizing of a human body feels rushed.
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Time Out
3 stars out of 4 -- Jackman invests his fierce character with a cheeky attitude, clear-eyed intelligence and inherent decency, compelling viewers to care about his metamorphosis.
USA Today
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Adequate
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Tribune News Service
No matter how well-staged, the action doesn't make much sense, and the story is a tedious muddle.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 2/4 --
There's plenty of brawn and brute force to go around of course, but it lacks the heart and soul that distinguished the franchise.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Mr. Schreiber, sporting fangs as well as mutton chops, gives the movie a surly kick...
New York Times
Product Description:
When choosing which mutant hero they would use to launch the X-MEN feature-film prequel series ORIGINS, the creators of the hugely successful franchise had a no-brainer of a decision in going with Wolverine. Not only is he the most well-known and popular X-Men character, but Wolverine--as brought expertly to life in true leading-man fashion by Hugh Jackman--was essentially the star of the three previous X-MEN movies.
As the title implies, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE is the back story of the fiery and conflicted Wolverine (né James Logan), whose mutant powers include killer claws that shoot from his knuckles and a regenerative ability that allows him to live seemingly forever. Taking a few mild liberties but staying relatively faithful to the comic-book source material, ORIGINS follows Logan from his first recognition of his mutant powers as a young child up through his infamous adamantium rebirth and the total memory loss that would subsequently fuel his angry quest. Wolverine’s story has enough intriguing details to allow for a grown-up psychodrama in the mold of THE DARK KNIGHT, and the actors on hand--including Danny Huston as Stryker and Liev Schreiber as Logan’s half-brother, Victor (aka Sabretooth)--have the chops to deliver. Director Gavin Hood, however, opts in favor of cinematic razzle-dazzle heavy on John Woo-style action-ballet and CGI glitz. From Deadpool’s eye-popping swordplay (the action-adventure equivalent of Riverdance) to the tightrope-walk of a fight scene in the film’s finale, WOLVERINE is a blockbuster action film in the most fundamental sense of the word. While some might complain that the film lacks the storytelling substance of the first two X-MEN films, if it’s bang you’re after, then this certainly isn’t a waste of your bucks.
As the title implies, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE is the back story of the fiery and conflicted Wolverine (né James Logan), whose mutant powers include killer claws that shoot from his knuckles and a regenerative ability that allows him to live seemingly forever. Taking a few mild liberties but staying relatively faithful to the comic-book source material, ORIGINS follows Logan from his first recognition of his mutant powers as a young child up through his infamous adamantium rebirth and the total memory loss that would subsequently fuel his angry quest. Wolverine’s story has enough intriguing details to allow for a grown-up psychodrama in the mold of THE DARK KNIGHT, and the actors on hand--including Danny Huston as Stryker and Liev Schreiber as Logan’s half-brother, Victor (aka Sabretooth)--have the chops to deliver. Director Gavin Hood, however, opts in favor of cinematic razzle-dazzle heavy on John Woo-style action-ballet and CGI glitz. From Deadpool’s eye-popping swordplay (the action-adventure equivalent of Riverdance) to the tightrope-walk of a fight scene in the film’s finale, WOLVERINE is a blockbuster action film in the most fundamental sense of the word. While some might complain that the film lacks the storytelling substance of the first two X-MEN films, if it’s bang you’re after, then this certainly isn’t a waste of your bucks.
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