Mistress Napalm (Wolverine)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Directed by Gavin Hood
Written by David Benioff and Skip Woods
Let me start off by saying Hugh Jackman is aging pretty darn well! That being said, I have to admit I’m still confused as to why its called X-Men Origins: Wolverine because it leads me to assume that there’ll be other origin stories, which I severely doubt. I’d prefer they didn’t tease me at all and just called it “The Origin of Wolverine”. But I digress. And yes I’ll be saying “I digress” an awful lot.
Even though this movie was leaked before its release I didn’t bother to join in those who watched it, I’d rather watch a finished movie—not bits and pieces. So many people wrote me saying “Oh my God its AWFUL!”, so I didn’t bother going to see the movie with high expectations… especially not after X-Men 3. The only thing that pushed me to sit through this movie was Gambit and Emma Frost. Oh, and my boyfriend.
Sometimes I think I’m a horrible person to see a movie with because I’ll find parts of movies funny that aren’t meant to be. I was nearly hissed out of Star Wars Episode 3 after all, but I’m sure many of you can understand where I’m coming from. I did laugh about ten minutes into the movie, and when you see it I’m sure you’ll know why. That’s the only time I laughed when I shouldn’t have though.
Moving on, Hugh Jackman (Wolvie) and Liev Schreiber (Sabertooth) have an amazing on screen chemistry. The unique love and loathing they have for each other as brothers is evident throughout the film. I was hoping for a grislier, more rugged Sabretooth, but as it was an origins movie I didn’t bother worrying about it too much. Honestly though in every scene they had together you felt this conflict within them, it amazed me how they could keep it going.
Let’s not leave out our starting mutants either. Kevin Durand (Frederick J. Dukes a.k.a. The Blob), adorable Dominic Monaghan (Chris Bradley/Bolt), drool worthy Daniel Henny (David North/ Zero), loveable Will.i.Am (John Wraith), and amazing at playing the most annoying character ever, Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson/Deadpool). They definitely seem like a group of guys on a mission to tear some stuff up! Oh and I can’t forget Danny Huston, he made a great William Stryker. I’m not even sure what else to say about him but wow, he did an amazing job!
The scenes between Hugh and Lynn Collins (Kayla Silverfox) were really touching. I just found it odd how she was always wearing some sort of lingerie or pajama type thing. I mean c’mon ladies, if we live with a man we don’t prance around like that. But I digress (see I told you I’d say it again). Whenever they were in a scene together being all mushy I couldn’t help but smile.
Taylor Kitsch (Remy LeBeau) is as smooth as his New Orleans accent. He made an amazing Gambit and I’m so thankful for that! If they make another X-Men movie I really truly hope they put him in it again.
I will have to nitpick on Emma Frost now. The geek girl in me was so happy they actually picked a hot blonde chick to play Emma, her name is Tahyna Tozzi. She’s hot and no she didn’t do anything wrong. It’s just that I wasn’t convinced she was Emma Frost. If they didn’t mention diamond hard skin in the movie I would’ve been like “Hey its Dazzler!” Okay, actually during the trailer I did think it was Dazzler and I only had the faintest memory of her X-Men card in my head when I saw the trailer. Yes she’s a real character go look her up. Anyway, while I didn’t like the be-jeweled Emma Frost I guess it was more visually entertaining than “POOF see through statue girl!” But I was expecting more of her psychic powers of doom than just glitter.
Now don’t worry about Scott Summers (Cyclops) being in the movie. It’s a young Cyclops played by Tim Pocock and they didn’t make him depressed and emo like in X-Men 3. I still feel awful that they did that to James Marsden.
Do me a favor though, no matter how hard they try to get you to leave your seat stay through ALL of the credits because like in the previous X-Men movies there is something at the very end. Oh and to my fellow ladies, if your man really wants you to see this movie and you don’t want to let me leave you with this last motivational snippet… naked Hugh Jackman.
Review by Mistress Napalm