Rating: 10 out of 10
I saw the premier of Wolverine at Ashton Lane. The first time i have paid for a film in 3 years but it was well worth!
OUTLINE:
Wolverine is the first of the origin films that come before the X-Men trilogy. It follows the story of how Wolverine (and some other storylines) came about to be X-Men.
The movie starts with Logan (Wolverine) as a young boy discovering that he is different from normal children and able to grow claws in his hands when he is angry. Logan and his brother Victor Creed (who later becomes Sabertooth) run away together. They end up serving in many wars together until they are captured and found by William Stryker who runs a special unit for mutants. During an exercise where Stryker wants the unit to kill villagers who will not tell him where a special metal that he wants is, Logan turns his back on them and quits the unit refusing to kill innocent people. Logan runs off to live a peaceful life as a lumberjack in Canada with his girlfriend but is still disturbed by the nightmares of his life.
6 years go by and Logan has almost forgotten what he used to be until Stryker turns up and offers him a chance to be in the Weapon X Project. Logan refuses until Creed turns up and kills his girlfriend. Logan is so mad he wants revenge on Creed he agrees to go through with the transformation. Stryker uses the special metal adamantium to infuse to Logans' exoskeleton to make him indestructable and eventually Wolverine with his metal claws! However Stryker had an alterior motive and is trying to create the ultimate mutant with DNA from kidnapped mutants joined together to make mutant Weapon XI. He wants Logan's DNA however before he gets the chance Logan escapes.
Logan goes out to seek revenge on both Creed and Stryker. He finds the mutant Gambit (the first time he has been in an X-Men film!) and asks for his help to get to Three Mile Island, where Stryker is keeping the kidnapped mutants, as Gambit is the only mutant to have escaped. Logan finds all the captured mutants and confronts Stryker only to be set apon by Weapen XI. Not to give away too much the film ends with Logan having to defend himself against the ultimate mutant, save the captured mutants, kill Stryker and get revenge on Creed.
REVIEW:
I am a big fan of films about superheros and Marvel etc so i was expecting Wolverine to be up there with the X-Men films and Spiderman as some of my fave films and it exceeded my expectations!
I was sucked in from the very beginning and not just because Hugh Jackman is very hot and naked at one point ;) The film goes back in time and follows all the things that Logan had to go through that make him the mutant that he is in X-Men. It has twists and many points in the film where things just click and start to make sense from storylines in the X-Men films. It has action from the very start that carry on to very end and the graphics in the film are amazing. The introduction of new mutants such as Gambit and the start of the story of how mutants such as cyclops become to be in the X-Men Project run by Charles Xavier in the trilogy of X-Men make this film even better. The film keeps you engaged, has everything you need in a film from action to romance, so something for everyone - a definate MUST SEE!
TRIVIA:
Whilst making this film Hugh Jackman was taking part in a fight scene with a stunt woman as Wolverine. The woman misjudged a move at one point and didnt move out the way in time and ended up being speared in the arm by the real metal claws in Jackman's hand!
MAIN ACTORS:
Logan/Wolverine - Hugh Jackman (X-Men, Van Helsing, The Prestige)
Creed/Sabertooth - Liev Schreiber (Defiance, The Omen)
Stryker - Danny Huston (Children of Men, The Kingdom, The Aviator)
Deadpool - Ryan Reynolds (Definately Maybe, Just Friends)
Bolt - Dominic Monaghan (Lost, Lord of the Rings)
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