Throwback Thursday Review: 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'

This week I decided to go back and review X-Men Origins: Wolverine this week to correlate with 

Deadpool's release. This is in large part because it's the only X-Men film to feature the character of Deadpool and this is just one of those comic book films where I felt the need to express my viewpoint.

'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' Review

Have you ever wanted to know Wolverine's origin story? Well, X-Men Origins: Wolverine attempts to answer that question. Keyword, attempts. Unfortunately the film doesn't deliver on the mystery and intrigue but rather muddles it with poor writing, a lousy premise and some awful CGI. The film has plotholes galore and completely disregards the continuity of Fox's X-Men film universe. There are about a total of one and a quarter good performances in the film. Hugh Jackman makes for a phenomenal Wolverine and will always be great in the role despite how awful the movie can be. As I stated earlier, the CGI is poorly rendered as Wolverine's claws looked very fake and I can't begin to comprehend why that is, given that all three of the X-Men films released prior to this made Wolverine's claws look cool and somewhat believable. When I said "one and a quarter", the "quarter" referred to Ryan Reynolds, who gets to portray Wade Wilson or as many people will soon know him, Deadpool, but only about a quarter of his screen time is enjoyable and does the character some justice. This film takes the character of Deadpool and literally shows no respect to him. Deadpool is commonly referred to as the Merc with a Mouth, yet for some reason the filmmakers decided to sew his mouth shut? This sloppy portrayal is not by any means Reynolds fault but rather the fault of the screenwriters, the director, and anyone else involved behind the camera. Reynolds is actually quite good at the beginning of the film where he actually gets to be charismatic and crack some jokes, but unfortunately the remainder of the film doesn't give Reynolds the opportunity to do much else then be the equivalent of a silent video game boss. Liev Schreiber is decent as Sabertooth but his motivations are so cluttered that it makes the plot that much more incoherent. Every other performance is pretty awful and a waste of screen time. Will.I.Am was even in this film as a teleporting mutant cowboy? Yeah, that was the point of no return for this film, but for some reason the filmmakers decided to keep pushing forward. As I said there are a few redeemable qualities the film offers, emphasis on the word "few". The film begins with a very well edited montage that showed Wolverine and Sabertooth fighting through all the major American wars leading to the Vietnam War which is followed later by a cool action sequence showcasing all of the mutant strike team, most notably Wade Wilson and his awesome katanas. Alas, the remaining action is laughably ridiculous and the film's plot doesn't really amount to much. In the end, I think it would have been best for everyone if this movie had never been made, hence why Fox rebooted their continuity with X-Men Days of Future Past.

Film Assessment: F