Movie: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Director: Gavin Hood
Staring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber
I’ve never been a fan of the X-Men series, I’m not sure why… maybe it was the lack of ever reading/caring about comic books. As a child I never had the desire to be a super hero, I never really cared about who they were or where they came from. So, when I heard the initial reviews of the movie I was intrigued. All of a sudden the concept of when an individual super hero came from seemed, well, semi-entertaining. Yea, I was semi-wrong.
When watching movies in general, I take the view that I’m going to suspend reality for roughly two hours as I visit the imagined world presented to me by the director. Obviously, this really helps when watching a movie based off of a comic book, but when the graphics, computer animation and special effects look – SO FAKE – it’s hard to keep the reality of the situation from sneaking back in. Countless times throughout X-Men Origins: Wolverine I was drawn to the poor CGI, the obviously fake backdrops, and the seemingly rushed camera work.
With any movie, don’t matter what I’m watching, needs to be able to pull me in. The movie has to make me care about the situation, about the characters, but for roughly half of this flick I simply didn’t care about anyone. The story didn’t pull me in. An event about half-way through changed that, but if was only momentary. I cared about two characters that had no major role in the story, once the two characters in question filled their role, I simply stopped caring about the people the director wanted the viewers to be emotionally invested in.
Aside from a super hero movie, this was an action movie. There was plenty of action, don’t get me wrong; however, the action fell victim to the poor production values that the special effects did. I kid you not when I say there was a chase scene that was so poorly filmed, on some back country road, that I thought I watching a deleted A-Team scene. It was that bad.
So, if you are looking for mindless action with no real point X-Men Origins: Wolverine will fill that need for you.
Overall Rating: 5.5 (due to some fulfilling action)
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