First summer film....

You can always count on them arriving every summer (well almost every). It seems the reactions to them vary between love and hate. If you can appreciate the value of the film in regard to important factors (coolness, explosions, gunfire, falls from incredible heights), you can learn to overlook an unbelievably large amount of perceived hokey-ness.


On May 1st I went to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. IMO, It is probably the best in the X-men series. It was certainly better than Spider-Man 3, but not quite as good as Iron Man or The Dark Knight. The movie could have been a little longer, I am sure they could have found enough good plot to fill up another half hour or so. That said the film does not feel cut short; it flows very well from scene to scene. The CGI is excellent, but is not relied on to carry the film. The writing is good as the movie acheives its goal in giving us some of Wolverine's story. As far as keeping true to the comic books, it does an OK job, not being much worse than the majority of hero films in the last couple of years. There are obvious areas where a great deal of license has been taken. The writing is better than you would expect, perhaps due to an obvious amount of care taken to avoid *duh* moments. Casting was overall excellent, with Hugh Jackman, Leiv Schreiber and Lynn Collins obviously putting a good deal of heart and effort into their roles.
Overall= 7/10