Marvel has always been a giant in the comic book industry, now with the release of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" they are set to become just as big a giant on the silver screen. Last year saw the resurgence of several Marvel characters, Iron Man and The Hulk were part of the opening round in what the struggling studio hopes is a huge all out money collecting machine. The origins of several of the Marvel characters could be a windfall for Marvel, if this one is a success, and there is no better character to start with the Wolverine.
James Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is a young child as the movie opens, we see that he is friends with Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), the son a family caretaker. When the man James believes is his father is murdered, Logan's mutant ability is released. He has the uncanny ability to extend bone claws from between his fingers. Logan kills the man he thinks murdered his father, but when the truth is revealed, Logan and Victor run into the woods. The boys make a pact to always be by the others side. We next see the boys as they are fighting in the Civil War, World War I, World War II and Vietnam. Logan stops Victor from killing a fellow soldier, still the two are court marshaled and are going to be shot by a firing squad. Victor tells Logan to wake him when it's over. The next morning William Stryker (Danny Houston) comes into the guys cell and tells them they are going to have their heads cut off the following day, unless they are willing to join his group. The two agree and we meet the rag tag group that makes up Weapon X, Wade WIlson/Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), Barnell Bohusk/Beak (Dominic Monaghan), David North/Agent Zero (Daniel Henney) John Wraith (Will I Am) and Frederick J. Dukes/The Blob (Kevin Durand).
The group travels to Nigeria and we see in a special effects laden scene the group kill a war lords army. They are looking for a fragment of a meteor that contains a new metal. When Stryker orders Victor to kill the villagers that had found the fragment, Logan tries to stop him, telling Victor this isn't what they signed up for, and that if Victor did what Stryker wanted Logan was through, Victor tells Logan that he can't just walk away from the group. Logan throws his dog tags down on the ground and walks away, the movie then jumps ahead six years and we see Logan is now living with The Silver Fox (Lynn Collins) in the Canadian Wilderness. Logan is working for a logging company when Stryker and Agent Zero visit him, Stryker tells Logan that someone is hunting down the members of their team, Logan isn't interested at all, we next see the Silver Fox driving down the road, Sabretooth is blocking the road, when she stops Sabretooth claws her car, Logan smells blood and walks over to where a wolf's head has been left, he notices claw marks on a tree, running down the hill Logan comes across the body of the woman he loves, swearing vengeance on Creed, Logan goes into town, the two meet in a small bar and fight it out, neither one can claim victory, Logan is thrown against a semi truck, but his ability to heal helps him recover quickly.
Stryker approaches Logan and tells him he has the means to help Logan get his revenge against Creed, that if Logan joins his new project, Stryker will help Logan kill Creed. Logan agrees and we next see him in a tank of water, the process of having adamantium injected into his bones. The process is painful and stops Logan's heart, of course any fan of wolverine knows that he recovers, Stryker fearing that Logan now known as Wolverine will be uncontrollable, orders his memory erased, fearing that he wont get his revenge Wolverine escapes from the facility. Running naked into the wilderness, hiding in the barn of an older couple, Agent Zero shots both of these people and Logan drives a motorcycle out into the wilderness where he is chased by a couple of Humvee's and a helicopter, using his new adamantium claws Wolverine is able to dispatch the Humvee's and the helicopter. Agent Zero is aboard the helicopter and Wolverine using Zero's headphones tells Stryker that he is going to get Creed, and that when he is done with that Stryker will be next. Then Wolverine kills Agent Zero who is trapped in the crashed helicopter. After reuniting with The Wraith and Frederick J. Dukes who is now The Blob, Logan finds out that Stryker and Creed are actually working together to kidnap mutants and keep them in confinement, Stryker is working on a new project, Weapon XI.
Of course their is one mutant who has escaped and he is the only person who knows where Stryker's new base of operations is. Remy LeBeau/Gambit (Taylor Kitsch) is in hiding in Louisiana. Logan along with John Wraith go searching for him in New Orleans. They find him in a card game where Logan tries to question him, but with less than desirable results. After being blasted through a wall by Gambit, Logan sees Creed standing over the dead body of Wraith and the fight is on. Right when Logan is about to get his revenge and kill Creed, Gambit comes flying in with his staff and blows everything apart. Creed uses this distraction to escape while Logan and Gambit go at it. After showing Gambit that he does intend to kill Creed and Stryker, Gambit agrees to take Logan to the Island where the facility is hidden. Arriving at the Island by plane, Logan finds that many mutant children are kept prisoner by Stryker and Creed with the support of the U.S. Government. One such mutant is Scott Summers/Cyclops (Tim Pocock). Logan confronts Stryker while he is at the finishing point of his Weapon XI (Scott Adkins) project and learns the truth about Silver Fox, that Stryker was using her to keep an eye on Logan during those six years Logan wasn't with the Weapon X team. She was manipulating him with her mutant power of persuasion. After leaving, Fox confronts Stryker demanding the release of her sister only to be placated and told to wait. Creed comes in and Fox tries to persuade him that Stryker is only using them. Only this doesn't work and she is almost killed by Creed. Logan hears her screams and comes to her rescue almost killing Creed, but being convinced by Fox that if he does that then they will be no better then Stryker. She also convinces him that she truly loves him.
Fox tells Logan her sister Emma Froast (Tahyna Tozzi) is being held prisoner on the island, Logan agrees to free the children, while Stryker activates Weapon XI, sending him to fight Wolverine. While the children try to escape, they are fired upon by guards, Fox is hit and Cyclops uses his mutant ability to help them escape. Fox sends the kids on and goes back to help Wolverine who is now in battle with Weapon XI. Weapon XI and Logan's fight ranges from inside a hanger to the outer top of a nuclear reactor, it appears Logan is outmatched until Creed shows up to help save him. "No one is allowed to kill you except me" Back to back they take on Weapon XI together the fight goes on, Weapon XI uses The Wraith power to appear and disappear, until Creed grabs him by the neck, stabs him in the chest and Logan decapitates him with his powerful adamantium claws. Weapon XI's head and body go falling into the reactor, his swords cut chunks out of it the whole way down. Logan tells Creed that this changes nothing and they go their separate ways.
After just getting to the ground, Logan is saved from the reactor's falling debris by Gambit. They then go their separate ways in search for Stryker, but Logan comes upon the wounded body of Fox and starts carrying her toward the plane. Stryker intercepts them and shoots Logan in the head with adamantium bullets, which he believes are the only thing that can really "kill" him. This knocks Wolverine out long enough for Stryker to go after Silver Fox, but she turns the tables by touching his ankle and telling him to "walk until you bleed, Then keep walking." Gambit comes back finding Logan regaining consciousness but without any memories. Finding the body of Silver Fox, Gambit asks if Logan knows her but he doesn't. After the two leave, there is an appearance of an "original" X-man, one who helps Cyclops save the children, if you think, it will be easy to know just which X-Man it is. The movie ends here, but stick around through the credits.
I give X-Men Origins: Wolverine a 3 and on my avoidance scale a 0, all you comic book fanboys run out and get in line now, this movie will blow your socks off. Marvel has a way of adding a little something. And here once again we aren't disappointed. Stryker is picked up by the MP's with bloody feet for the murder of a general, and Logan is last seen in an Asian bar drinking shots and trying to remember who he is. And after a website leak of an unfinished movie Marvel added a few extra scenes with another ending, the second ending showing at AMC chains has Deadpool reaching for his decapitated head and whispering shush.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is rated PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Action and Violence and some Partial Nudity
Running time is 1 hr. 47 mins.
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