X-Men Origins: Wolverine is quite the uneven fare. The first third of the movie plays out fairly well, sticking to latter-day Wolverine mythos better than expected whilst appending some new details into canon. It also does a very good job of not stepping on the toes of previous established fact from earlier films. Characters are introduced dutifully and with barely more than the necessary number of lines but it gets the job done and provides for entertaining action. I was ready to call this movie better than X-Men 3 until slightly beyond midway when they introduced Gambit. He seems to have been shoehorned into the movie rather clumsily and scenes including him feel unnecessary. And most everything after that felt to me like I stepped into another film. I suppose if I were walking into the theatre to see Fantastic Four part 3 I'd expect lots of camp but not in this series.
My beef isn't so much with the liberties they took with regards to accuracy; I notice but easily forgive it. It's the sheer lack of forethought in the placement of events and people, and the film lacks the feeling or meaning behind the first two X-films (a problem which plagued X3). If the first outing of the Origins sub-franchise is this mediocre then I fear it won't get any better.
Pluses: Airwolf
Minuses: No cajun accents :(
Potent Notables: I was too impatient to sit through the credits so if you could tell me how that went...
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