I’m the type of movie watcher that give a movie a couple of days to stew in the endless realm known as my mind. I saw Wolverine on Saturday, which means its time to give you my ever important opinion.
In interest of full disclosure I am not a comic book reader so I am taking the movie and the story at face value. I don’t know if in the book adamantium clad Wolverine is really stainless steel Wolfboy, so please forgive my Marvel naivete.
Here are some of my more trivial observations:
- Mysterious Army generals are always bald
- Hugh Jackman can run around my house naked ANYTIME
- Will.i.am’s performance wasn’t exactly Oscar worthy but was good nonetheless
All in all it was an entertaining movie and worth the matinee price. Here’s something you need to keep in mind during the first half…it’s not a normal X-Men movie. Since it is a prequel it needs to give you a lot of background and story which means fewer “building-go-booms.” About 35 minutes in my eyes glazed over slightly. Mind you about 8 of those minutes were taken up by the excessive intro, so you can see why I got bored. Anyway, once you get past that there won’t be a ten minute fight scene every 12 minutes, you find yourself enjoying it.
As always, the special effects are amazing…overall. There is one scene in the end where it is so painfully obvious that it is fake and green-screened that it taints the amazing FX of the entire movie.
One thing that is silly, but leftout, is they never really say why he changed his name to Logan. They explain the whole Wolverine thing, but not Logan. Not that it is at ALL important, but it was noticebly gone.
Overall, I think the ending meshes well with the beginning of X-Men 1. If I were to score it, I think B/B+ is fair. While at first I thought it was a must see at the theatre…if you have a good surround sound system and a good sized TV, you could probably wait to order it on Netflix. And if the time comes when you do order it, I’ll bring the popcorn because I don’t pass up a chance to see Hugh Jackman in his skivvies. 
