Wolverine
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny HustonDirector: Gavin Hood
Year of Release: 2009
This is a comic book movie for movie fans. There is less of a concern about sticking to the history of the comic book characters than there is for making a blow-em-up action movie. So characters from the books are kind of thrown around and stuck here and there without any regard to their literary history. And that’s all fine considering this movie will make more in one weekend than all the comic books combined for one year. But as a movie it’s pure popcorn entertainment. Forget story or logic, clearly this about fights and explosions. And it does deliver that. Hugh Jackman continues to do an amazing job as Wolverine. He has really fleshed out a real character that at this point no one else could play. Danny Huston is great as Stryker and Liev Schreiber, though not an obvious choice at all for Sabretooth, pulls it off in his own way by going for more of the sinister, evil angle than the brute force of the character in the first X-Men movie. Will.I.Am however totally sucks and should stick to whatever the hell he does these days in music.
Bottom Line: Good popcorn flick. Fans of the series should enjoy it.
