So I waited a while before writing this one up. Mostly because I needed to digest what it was I had just seen. For starters, I went in hoping for awesome and expecting another X-Men 3 fiasco.
The movie itself was all right. It wasn’t terrible and it certainly avoided the levels of fail X-Men 3 had. It just wasn’t particularly good. It was sort of average overall. Maybe because I’m a comic book fan and grew up with the cartoon, which of course makes me a little picky. I was still defending it to a friend who I went with who was much more upset by the lack of accuracy than I was.
The movie starts out great. They cut down a six issue comic down to two minutes and, while I would have liked a little more, they did a pretty good job of making it a pretty interesting cinematic opening. They changed continuity, but I can accept it so long as I don’t recall X-men 1, where Sabertooth doesn’t seem to have any sort of memory of how they were brothers. They fight in the wars, get shot in the head and brought to the team.
And then the team is bad ass. Loved watching them infiltrate the building, have Wade as the smart ass he was when he was in Killbrew’s lab and being annoying as hell and in character.
I loved the movie until Wolverine left the squad. He goes to Canada, falls in love with Kayla (who I learned after the movie was Silverfox) and leads a life of poorly written scenes that really needed a chop.
That’s what I had problem with in the movie. Any scene that wasn’t an action sequence was kind of dull. I didn’t care, I just wanted them to stop talking and get to the next plot point. Later in the movie, I came to my senses and realized I just wanted another action sequence because those were the times I enjoyed the movie. That’s essentially what it comes down to, so time for the nitpicking!
The casting was really well done. Even Will I Am was good, which shocked me. He did downright respectable. And I have to admit that Meriadoc Brandybuck was playing a guy named Brandy. Dominic M-name I can’t remember. Everyone, really, was a good fit for their roles. A shame the script and direction didn’t work out.
Maybe I’m looking for nostalgia in the wrong places, but what was with Gambit’s accent? It wasn’t there half the time and wasn’t thick enough the rest. My poor childhood memories are not being upheld! My friend pointed out that they pronounced his last name wrong. Now, I don’t care because Cajun in this case is an insultingly poor bastardization of a French accent if I remember right, so I have no problem with that part, but apparently it was really upsetting to her.
As for Deadpool? He didn’t show up. We got Wade, dear sweet Wade at the start of the movie and Reynolds did a great job. And then, at the end, we got Weapon XI. He had katana claws and laser eyes. Possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen, but I was laughing my ass off through the fight sequence, so he still made me laugh.
There has been a Deadpool spin off movie confirmed too, so I’m not crushed by Wolverine overall. Some good has come of it. And it wasn’t a bad movie, just dull in the points where they weren’t fighting or being horribly emotionally and physically scarred.
Tags: comic, movie, wolverine, xmen
