X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 2009 film directed by Gavin Hood and stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Liev Schreiber as Sabertooth. It acts as a spin-off prequel to the main X-Men film series which focuses on the origins of Wolverine and his archnemesis Sabertooth.

Plot
Having a desire to escape his past, Logan seems to have found his love in Kayla Silverfox. However, after Logan's adopted brother Victor Creed brutally murders Kayla, Logan, seeking revenge, goes to the Weapon X program, where a painful surgery bonding his bones with adamantium makes him more powerful than Victor.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Absolutely no originality in the plot that botchers everything that made the X-Men movies special despite being made as a prequel.
 * 2) Executive Meddling: Originally, Gavin Hood, the director of that film, wanted to make the film darker and mature from the final project about James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine having PTSD. However, Tom Rothman, who was the executive of Fox at the time, did some rewrites behind the director's back. This leads to the following problems as shown above.
 * 3) *Tom Rothman himself is also the reason why he changed Wade Wilson/Deadpool unfaithful to the comics as his design is now a humanoid creature with black domino eyes and his mouth sewn shut.
 * 4) *Some of Fox's executives often argued that the audience would not be interested in these heavy themes and turned it into an inconsistent PG-13 rated "superhero" film with an even inconsistent tone that tries to be dark and pacing along with not fitting with Wolverine's status as a brooding 6-claw wielding mutant.
 * 5) *In addition to that, it can be said that this project was born without vision, since during the production of the film, because the origin of Wolverine was a mystery within the history of Marvel comics, Fox's executives had the first idea to invent its own origin of the character, something that Marvel did not like and resulted to have to launch their real Wolverine origin comic titled Origin. However, the executives of Fox overlooked the entire story that was shown in the comic and literally created their own vision of the origin of Wolverine.
 * 6) This project was born as a whim of Fox, due to the critical and financial disappointment caused by X-Men: The Last Stand, and the first Fantastic Four films (of its sequel), in turn, wanted to create a competition in the cinema, Seeing how the MCU began with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, Paramount began with the Transformers film series, the same with Sony with Spider-Man and Warner Bros won praise in the critics as at the box office with the Batman film, The Dark Knight.
 * 7) Production hell: Apparently this film had production problems since Gavin Hood did not combine with the ideas that Tom Rothman had at the same time by having the script to be reissued several times. Due to the fact, that Rothman did not like the first ideas that the film writers had, in fact, this film had the joint and improvised production of three studios to complete the visual effects, due to the constant advance of the film date, at the same time that they had to re-shoot several scenes from the trailer and others did not even make it to the final version due to this decision.
 * 8) *In fact, according to rumors, the film had several extended scenes that lasted more minutes than the theatrical version, but in the end they were withdrawn due to poor performances, compression of the visual effects and poor camera direction.
 * 9) *In addition to that, according to the words of the actors, the scriptwriters changed the story several times during the recording process, causing some stories that they had in mind to develop to be completely omitted, and that the film had a terrible edition.
 * 10) Poor computer-generated effects, for example, when Logan (James "Jimmy" Howlett) gets his claws (the bones, and the adamantium), they look like they been taken from the first film with no improvements. There is a lot of illogical scenes like the CGI ladder when Logan was clawing it to "climb".
 * 11) While the acting is pretty good, there is one error: Hugh Jackman sometimes forgets to use his Canadian accent at times.
 * 12) The performances of the actors Lynn Collins, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Henney, and Kevin Durand are pathetic as they overreact most of the time on screen.
 * 13) Speaking for Wade Wilson/Deadpool (as mentioned in BD#2.1), he is completely ruined and wasted in this film, as what was supposed to be the introduction of a badass wise-cracking superhero. Instead, he is now a humanoid version of himself called, "Weapon XI" with his mouth sewn shut along with unrelated powers aside from his healing factors, like optic blasts, invisibility, teleport, and katana-like claws.
 * 14) *Speaking of his "Weapon XI" design, Deadpool looks like a mouth-sewn Baraka from the Mortal Kombat games.
 * 15) Gambit in this film (aside from his mutant powers) is wasted and barely gets any screen-time. He also has his signature Cajun accent replaced by a Southern one. He does not join the X-Men in later films after it.
 * 16) William Stryker is a very weak main villain despite he was supposed to be the one who is responsible for Wolverine receiving the adamantium claws in X2: X-Men United.
 * 17) The movie can be considered one of the worst adaptations of the X-Men comics and of Marvel in general.
 * 18) *In fact according to fans and analysts of the Wolverine origin comics, FOX had a "pure gold" material, which had to be treated in at least one trilogy before touching on the story of Weapon X and obtaining the Adamantium claws, but this movie overlooks several of the tragic events that marked Logan's life, such as:
 * 19) **Muscular disease as a child, and his first love, Rose, who doesn't appear in the film.
 * 20) **His biological brother, Dog Logan replaced by Victor Creed/ Sabretooth.
 * 21) **His story in Canada.
 * 22) **His participation in the Spanish Civil War or World War I.
 * 23) **His participation in World War II with Captain America.
 * 24) **His relationship with Black Widow, or his fight mission with the Hulk.
 * 25) **His military history in Russia.
 * 26) In turn, it throws away several important aspects of the X-Men's dealings, such as Cyclops's past, Emma Frost's history (whom Emma was replaced as Kayla's sister), Silver's relationship with Logan, Professor Thornton (who doesn't appear in the film) and Striker's project, the hate relationship Sabretooth with Logan, Logan's relationship with Lady Deathstrike (never showned in the film), Professor Oyama (not appeared), the Circle of Fire's intentions (also not appeared), and the X-Men's actions to stop Magneto with Wolverine.
 * 27) Most of the characters are dull, uninteresting and you really don't care about them except Wolverine and Sabertooth.
 * 28) Lackluster action scenes due to overuse of slow-motion/fast motion and poor editing as well as shaky cam.
 * 29) The script is full of clichés that at times feel more like an action movie that was made in the 1990s.
 * 30) When Logan receives his adamantium powers from the Weapon X program, he simply escapes with no trouble; completely throwing out the plot element of his rampaging Weapon X mindset and the pain his Adamantium claws caused him as a teased in his flashbacks of the previous X-Men films.
 * 31) The dialogue between the characters are lousy and non-existent.
 * 32) It feels more than a generic Lethal Weapon-like movie with mutants as generic mercenaries.
 * 33) The Blob's weight doesn't come from his mutation, he just ate a lot. What a completely stupid change. Thus, he was never mentioned as being a member of Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy.
 * 34) The story presented by the film is completely necessary, so you can skip it and you don't miss anything important, since all its facts are omitted or contradicted in later films, the main ones being X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and Logan respectively.
 * 35) Will.i.am, a singer isn't an actor, and it shows. His lines have no life in them whatsoever.
 * 36) False advertising: in the main trailers that were made public of the film, several scenes from the trailer such as the Adamantium scene, the fight with Deadpool, the fight with Gambit, or the Helicopter scene, differ too much from the scenes seen in the movies.
 * 37) *At the same time in the main posters, Emma Frost, Cyclops, Deadpool, Silver Fox, and Kestrel, give the impression that they are main characters when in fact their very secondary characters.
 * 38) Similar to the case of the movies of Shrek the Third, Transformers: The Last Knight, Pacific Rim Uprising, The Last Airbender, The Lone Ranger, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Eragon, Godzilla (1998), The Mummy (2017), and Fantastic Four (2015), this film was destined to be the beginning of the series or a saga of X-Men Origins films (Magneto's being the second), however, due to bad reviews such as financial disappointment, this saga as the second movie was completely discarded, being X-Men: First Class, the one that was developed from the scrapped ideas for a Magneto film and used his origin story in it.
 * 1) Similar to the case of the movies of Shrek the Third, Transformers: The Last Knight, Pacific Rim Uprising, The Last Airbender, The Lone Ranger, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Eragon, Godzilla (1998), The Mummy (2017), and Fantastic Four (2015), this film was destined to be the beginning of the series or a saga of X-Men Origins films (Magneto's being the second), however, due to bad reviews such as financial disappointment, this saga as the second movie was completely discarded, being X-Men: First Class, the one that was developed from the scrapped ideas for a Magneto film and used his origin story in it.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The acting, especially Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber, is very good, and the cast does the best they can with the poor script.
 * 2) The "Logan Through Time" montage at the beginning is arguably the high point of the entire film.
 * 3) A few inspired moments, such as the fights between Logan and Victor.
 * 4) It does retell how Wolverine got his adamantium claws.
 * 5) Liev Schreiber is a very good replacement for Tyler Mane as Sabretooth.
 * 6) The fight between Wolverine, Sabertooth and Weapon XI is very epic despite being generic.
 * 7) Despite being generic, mh:greatestmovies: Ryan Reynolds was pretty good as Deadpool, and he'd return with his own movie in the 2016 film of the same name.
 * 8) It was later retconned out of existence from Wolverine's time-traveling along with X-Men: The Last Stand, after the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past. Thus, he never met Kayla or got into a fight with Victor, while his adamantium transformation had a different route in X-Men: Apocalypse.
 * 9) *Thus Wade Wilson/Deadpool no longer is injected from the Weapon X project and becomes a more faithful version of himself.
 * 10) The video game tie-in is actually very good.

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Reception
The movie was a box office hit but met with mixed to unfavorable reviews and fan reception. It currently has a 38% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the second lowest-rated X-Men film in the entire series. Hugh Jackman admitted that he was disappointed with how the film turned out, and mh:greatestmovies: Ryan Reynolds was angry that his character of Deadpool was completely butchered during production. The critics praised the cast's acting (particularly by Jackman and Schreiber), humor, and the musical score but criticism was due to the convoluted plot and inaccurate representation of characters, especially Deadpool. The movie was disliked by Hugh Jackman and mh:greatestmovies: Ryan Reynolds as well, leading to the development and release of better received proper movie adaptions of Wolverine and Deadpool, The Wolverine (2013), Deadpool (2016), and Logan (2017).

Currently, it has been the eye of harsh criticism for how FOX treated the rights of Marvel, after the purchase of Disney from FOX, at the same time it has been mocked by many comic fans considering it one of the worst adaptations of marvel (Sharing second place after Fantastic Four 2015), in turn, has been on the list of the movies of the worst Marvel movies, Superheroes, and as one of the movies that most disappointed and disappointed fans, “ Snatching first place from The Phantom Menace."

Trivia

 * Gambit was to get his own film (not related to the version in Origins) with Channing Tatum as the star replacing Taylor Kirsch and was to be released in 2019, but due to the Fox/Disney deal, it was cancelled.
 * The film's events, along with those of X-Men: The Last Stand, were retconned out of existence by Wolverine's time-traveling in 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. Most elements, however, such as Logan's real name being James Howlett, appear in the other Wolverine solo movies.
 * Speaking of time-traveling, in Deadpool 2, Deadpool goes back in time and shoots the X-Men Origins: Wolverine Deadpool, telling Logan in this movie that he's "cleaning up the timelines."
 * There were going to be further prequels, with the next one titled X-Men Origins: Magneto, but got cancelled due to the abysmal reception of this atrocity, causing 20th Century Fox and Marvel to scrap any plans for this failed franchise. However, audiences did get to see Magneto's origin being modernized in 2011's X-Men: First Class, which got the whole franchise recovered.
 * The film was intended to be the start of the X-Men Origins prequel film series, with the second film being about Magneto. But, the poor reviews resulted in the film being scrapped and its ideas were later integrated into X-Men First Class.