X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray]
by Gavin Hood
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Actor: Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan ReynoldsDirector: Gavin Hood
Brand: Fox
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Cantonese (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Original Language); Portuguese (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-09-15
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Reviews of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: A decent PG-13 version of Wolverine
Summary: 4 Stars
Remember, this a PG-13 version of Wolverine!
For years comic book readers have familiarized themselves with Wolverine and his violent past. In the X-men film universe the mythos surrounding his violent and animalistic past gained huge interest with the arrival of X-men 2. In that film, we caught several glances of Wolverine undergoing the weapon X procedure and one scene that really leaped off the screen for me was when he was escaping the facility with his hands covered in blood, screaming in agonizing pain. When X-men 3 came out many fans were disappointed (you can't kill Cyclops, that's like killing one of the Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles!) so when the announcement came that they were making a Wolverine movie many people welcomed it with open arms. The film would cover the mythos created in X-men 2 and show us the "animal" and "violent past" we had heard and read about for so long.
One of the best scenes in the movie was the montage during the opening credits of Wolverine fighting in the Civil War, WW1,WW2, and Vietnam just because it did such a good job conveying what Wolverine was; a killer and mercenary! Some folks felt that this theme should have been carried on during the rest of the film; more violence and killing on wolverine's part, but we have to remember that this is a straight up sanitized version of Wolverine just because there is no way in hell Fox studios would make a rated R Wolverine film. So all you people expecting a bloody and violent film should just walk away right now because your blood lust will not be satisfied here, go back to reading X-Force.
One scene that I really dislike in the film was when Wolverine and Stryker's team go to Nigeria. All he did was stand there!!! I wish I was exaggerating but I'm not. The "violent animal" just stood there while all these other mutants that I could care less about did all the killing. He could have at least taken out some of the guards in the building! As the film goes along Wolverine catches morality because he doesn't condone killing innocents and leaves the "team" THAT HE WAS ONLY A PART OF FOR ONE MISSION. Stryker eventually catches up to Wolverine and tells him "someone is taking out our old team" and that living a life in Canada "isn't him." Team? What team? The team that he was only a part of for one mission? A mission that he just stood around for? How in the hell would Stryker know what Wolverine was like, if he only worked with him for one mission?! This is by far the worst act of the entire film but luckily the film gets better after this "hiccup," as Stryker would have put it.
I hear many complaints about "how they made Sabertooth Wolverine's brother" but that doesn't bother me because in the book "Origin" Wolverine kills his own father just like in the beginning and while in the comic they don't say it out loud that he's his father, the guy he kills looks just like the classic Wolverine, hinting that he is his father. And even though no comes out and says Dog (the other son) is Sabertooth, it is suggested, and not only that, Wolverine and Sabertooth are of a unique race of mutants (written by Jeph Loeb) and they are related! In the movie they just saved the confusion and made him his brother.
Another complaint I hear is about the love story but sorry people wolverine is soft for the ladies and was indeed with Kayla Silverfox. Wolverine has had plenty of ladies from Kayla to Mariko, From Yuriko to Jean Grey, the guy is a ladies man behind that feral rage. I swear all people want to see is this guy murder and that's not what makes a good film!
The great thing about this film are the leading actors, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Leiv Schriber as Sabertooth. These guys give and amazing performance and are really why you want to see this film. When these two fight that when you really get to see the "animal" that we've been hearing about for so long. When these two guys go head to head it's and epic stand off and the great part about it is that they go toe to toe three times in this film! No one else could have came out that Weapon x tank the way Hugh Jackman did. No one. He is to Wolverine what Christopher Reeves is to Superman. You can totally tell that this guy loves the role and it shows every time he goes into his berserker rage. One of my favorite parts of the film is when he finally defeats Victor Creed and he is contemplating killing him and Silverfox pleas with him not to because "he's not an animal." Just the look on Hugh Jackman's face; the rage and the way his veins are busting out of his forehead totally captures the essence of Wolverine! I know diehard fans want to see blood but for a PG-13 version Hugh Jackman did a wonderful job, cut the guy some slack! This is by far the most angry Wolverine has ever been portrayed on film, more than X-men 1 and 2.
Another thing that made my day when it comes to this film was the sub-plot involving Cyclops. His character got butchered so badly in X3 it's not even funny and to have a mini-origin in this film for him was such a pleasure for me that it's one of the main reasons I like the film so much. That scene when he saves the prisoners with his optic blast was so epic! I've been waiting for his character to blast the living daylights out of someone like that for so long that I cheered in the theater when he did! Thank you to the film makers for giving Cyclops a great cameo, he deserved it and I can die content and erase the horror that was X3 from my mind.
There are also some folks out there that didn't like Wolverines encounters with the "old couple." This "old couple" is supposed to be Heather and James Hudson. In the comics these two characters were young and from a Canadian secret ops team called Alpha Flight. Did you people really think Wolverine was going to join Alpha Flight in this film like he did in the comics? You bloggers ask for too much, so much so that it's impossible to please you! All they did here was make them old and it's not as blasphemous as these bloggers claim.
It seems some people wanted this film to adapt more from the Weapon X novel but c'mon you really think there going to focus that much time on his training and brainwashing when they have so much ground to cover in one hour and forty five minutes. No way. Yes, it would have been nice to see wolverine training to be a more effective killer but that wouldn't have served the plot for this film that much because the main theme for this film is revenge against Sabertooth and redemption for oneself. Having a five or ten minute scene with Wolverine slicing up wolves would have been pointless and like I stated above for a PG-13 version of Wolverine they did a decent job.
Gambits appearance was appreciated to say the least, I just wish they could have given him a better wardrobe. How hard is it to get this guy a trench coat with a popped collar?! Gambit's action scenes were great and one complaint I constantly hear is "how did he get on the roof?" HE RAN UP THERE OFF SCREEN YOU DUMB ASS! The film makers aren't going to cut to a scene of Gambit climbing a flight of stairs when they have to focus on the confrontation with Wolverine and Sabertooth! Some of you home made critics need to stop over analyzing things and remember this is a comic book movie!! Even the almighty "Dark Knight" had a few "continuity errors" (when the prisoner with the cell phone bomb finally explodes everyone gets wasted but the Joker yet he is in the same exact facility as everyone else!) and no one complains about those!
There are also a lot of complaints about Deadpool but I argue that Deadpool isn't even in this film, just Wade Wilson and weapon 11. In the comics Wade Wilson has cancer and becomes and experiment (Weapon 11) and turns horribly disfigured, here he is subjugated to Stryker's experiments and that's how he gets disfigured. So what if they gave him optic blast and blades, it wasn't a big deal to me because ultimately this is a Wolverine/X-men film and Deadpool isn't even and X-man to begin with so I could care less. Also this guys powers in the comics are that he can grow back limbs and all types of other ridiculous stuff so why should him having blades appear ludicrous at all? People should be happy a second string character like him is even in the film! Although I will admit sewing his mouth shut would be a big no no to a huge fan of the character but if you saw the theatrical version is mouth opens up at the end, hinting at a returning appearance in the future.
This film's version of William Stryker was very interesting. He's much more of a Dr. Mengle/ Mr. Sinister in this film than in X2 because of his morbid experimentation on mutants. I found his character to be very intriguing in this film and the scene when he murders the general was very well acted.
A lot of people didn't like the adamantium bullet idea but I thought it was excellent. I loved it because it was so comic bookish and people love to hate on that idea but I swear if that were to be the official reason in the comics as to why Logan has trouble with his memories no one would complain. It's almost as if bloggers love to look for the negative in everything.
The ending was decent too. I liked how Silverfox comes back leaving Wolverine to question whether their romance was even true or not because it's something that he deals with in the comics and in the 1990's X-men TV show in an episode called "Weapon X, Lies, and Videotape." There was a lot taken from that story line and injected into this film and the ending to that episode is very similar to the scene where Wolverine questions whether their love was real or not. The sad part is he won't even remember her...
The ending to Sabertooth and Wolverine's relationship was ambiguous and I believe the reason for this was because in X-Men 1 it is hinted that Sabertooth may remember Wolverine when he grabs his dog tag off Magneto's desk, otherwise why would he care who wolverine was if he was just another guy he had to take out. It was unexplored characterization touched on in X1 that went no where and I feel all they did was built off that little gesture. A lot of people feel that it's a huge continuity error but my theory is that he does remember wolverine, there's just no dialogue between them. Making prequels is a challenge especially if you were limited to characterization when making the older films and you have to build off that very same limited story line.
Despite the poor sequence in Nigeria I thought that the film makers did a good job cramming in all the history for wolverine in a one hour and forty five minute film. You really have to applaud them for achieving that and with a pg-13 rating. The main highlights of this film are the showdowns with Wolverine and sabertooth and the excellent Cyclops cameo. This film is not as Sc-fi orientated as the first X-men films but more of an action thriller. This isn't a good film to start with if you don't know anything about X-men simply because it doesn't explain the mutant phenomenon at all. I would watch this film after X-men 1 and before X2 just so I can know what mutants are. Overall this was a very entertaining film and it captures the spirit of Wolverine, not the violence of Wolverine, and to me the spirit is what counts more. This film was a huge improvement over X3 and at the end of the day that's all that matters to me!!
Description of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray]
Heroic Hugh Jackman ?breathes the fire into Wolverine? (Miami Herald) ? with a vengeance! This pulse-pounding action thriller sinks razor-sharp adamantium claws into the mysterious origins of Logan/Wolverine: his epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), and the ominous Weapon X program that unleashes his primal fury. Along the way, Wolverine also encounters legendary new mutants, including Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Gambit (Taylor Kitsch). You?ll go ?berserker? for this deeper, darker, more-spectacular-than-ever chapter of the X-Men saga!Bestsellers in DVD
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