I think its funny Reality calls me out for the review to Wolverine. Instead of . . . y'know. . . Wolverine!! Hey Caleb, where the heck are you at!!!! Actually I'm going to deduce (having not talking to him in a couple weeks, mind you) that he's madder than a hatter at a tea party. I bet Caleb wants to take Hugh Jackman and Gavin Hood and commit some 1st degree evisceration; which brings me to the review . . .
Before I go any further, I'm going to get this out of the way. They screwed the storyline 9 ways from sunday and back . . . ALL NINE WAYS!!! That is why Caleb is probably in a murderous furor at this point. But I will actually give them somewhat of a pass because the story of Wolverine is a 35 year old saga, man-SOAP with multiple takes, multiple authors, multiple ideas and threads (most of which have never gone anywhere), multiple timelines, and multiple migraines for anyone that thinks they can make a contiguous 100 minute feature getting all the strands correct.
For what the movie was: an action flick starring everyone's favorite, flesh-tearing Canadian with various characters (minor and major) that have come to be associated with said character; it did the job. I quite enjoyed myself while watching the movie. Every 12 minutes, I had to remind myself, "Keep calm, don't get mad, this is about all they could hope to do". I like Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed, Liev is a good actor and while the how's and why's of the character were skewed, Schreiber pulled off the seething psychopathy of Creed. Stryker had too important of a role . . . AGAIN, while Dr. Cornelius wasn't even mentioned by name. Gambit wasn't in the movie enough. The casting wasn't horrible, but he voice work went from forced to bad to non-existent. If you're going to cast Gambit, pay for some voice coaching and get the cajun accent down. As it was the character went from cajun, to southern, to not even trying anymore. The action sequences were cool with Gambit, I wish they used the character more; but I'm biased. Archangel and Gambit are my two favorite Marvel characters by a long margin.
I'll admit the end part with Deadpool made me angry. You did a fantastic job casting Ryan Reynolds for the part, and Ryan Reynolds played Deadpool to a T in the beginning of the film. You then turn Deadpool into a ghoulish, mute, jigsaw mutant, with retractable katana's!! I think you could have filmed Gavin Hood urinating on a Deadpool comic and then lighting it on fire and achieved about the same effect. Why people? Why??
Anywho, if you're a hardcore Marvel afficianado wanting to see a comic translation onto the screen? This is not the film for you! If you don't and never will care about the source material; then check it out, its got some pretty cool action sequences . . . . and, oh yeah, lots of violence.
C+
