If there’s
one thing everyone knows about Wolverine it’s that he has a mysterious past. He
doesn’t remember it and ultimately it’s the key to his character development as
he finds out answers piece by piece. Unfortunately, they felt the need to give
us an origin story instead.
X-men
Origins Wolverine came out in 2009, again, 3 years after the last X-men movie
(the Spider-man movies were released in 2002, 2004 and 2007) and despite the
large gap, the writing was already underway in 2004. Man, they sure took their
time with this one. Gavin Hood was chosen as director despite not being a comic
book fan. *sighs* You know, with Brett Ratner he wasn’t a first choice because
the actual director had to leave. Here, they deliberately chose a non-comic fan
to helm a comic book adaptation. Be afraid
It made
money about $370million, but it was blasted by critics holding 38% on Rotten
tomatoes, a massive step down from even X-men 3, 6.7 on IMDb and 40% on
Metacritic. What do I think? Let’s take a look.
