"I hate to say it, Jimmy, but frankly, I'm a little disappointed."
The story seems to work better on the small screen, whereas the spectacle works better on the big screen. This is the main reason why people found Wolverine a difficult film to like; it is a very small-scale story presented as an epic, and the two don't marry together well. Fitfully pleasing after an encouraging start, the first X-Men spin-off movie does not bode well for others: if Wolverine cannot sustain a whole movie as a central character, what hope is there for Magneto or even X-Men: First Class? Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber both put in effective work on screen, and the edgier tone and physical action work reasonably within their 12A constraints, but the somewhat workaday superhero-style origin backstory and a narrative that strays all over the place means that the viewer has little to really latch onto. At times, the CGI make The Mummy Returns look cutting-edge, which also takes the audience out of the movie. Deadpool and Gambit both serve the film very well, however, and as a companion piece to the X-Men movies, Wolverine fits appropriately. Its moderate box-office returns do not seem to have deterred Fox from prepping Wolverine 2, but, as Universal have found with The Hulk, developing a character-worthy foundation for a film may be a fundamental problem. DVD extras are meagre.
The story seems to work better on the small screen, whereas the spectacle works better on the big screen. This is the main reason why people found Wolverine a difficult film to like; it is a very small-scale story presented as an epic, and the two don't marry together well. Fitfully pleasing after an encouraging start, the first X-Men spin-off movie does not bode well for others: if Wolverine cannot sustain a whole movie as a central character, what hope is there for Magneto or even X-Men: First Class? Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber both put in effective work on screen, and the edgier tone and physical action work reasonably within their 12A constraints, but the somewhat workaday superhero-style origin backstory and a narrative that strays all over the place means that the viewer has little to really latch onto. At times, the CGI make The Mummy Returns look cutting-edge, which also takes the audience out of the movie. Deadpool and Gambit both serve the film very well, however, and as a companion piece to the X-Men movies, Wolverine fits appropriately. Its moderate box-office returns do not seem to have deterred Fox from prepping Wolverine 2, but, as Universal have found with The Hulk, developing a character-worthy foundation for a film may be a fundamental problem. DVD extras are meagre.
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A pretty spot on review there Mr P and must say that your are completely correct about the story line trying to be too "epic" for the film and i presonally feel that the beggining and a couple of fight scenes in the film were the only thing that it had going for it.
As for Ryan Reynolds... Well, have you seen this!
http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b122412_wolverines_ryan_reynolds_dives_in.html
Deadpool spin off... really..
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