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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

2009
Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller
1h 47m
Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed (who will later become Sabertooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program. (imdb)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

2009
Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller
1h 47m
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Rated 12 May 2009
20
4th
Bad. Bad, bad, bad. So awful, in fact, that Ratner's third film seems almost accomplished. This manages to do absolutely nothing interesting with an incredibly cool character. And worse: it's no fun, with mostly bland performances and its ridiculously over-the-top action. Avoid.
Rated 15 May 2009
0
4th
Rated 15 Oct 2009
40
14th
The action wasn't that great, the effects weren't that great. They threw in a bunch of mutants just to have them in there. A bunch of it was repetitive. Just Wolverine and Sabretooth stabbing each other a bunch, yelling, and healing. It's amazing that they took three of the most popular comic characters today (Wolverine, Deadpool and Gambit) and made the audience not care about them at all. An easily forgettable movie.
Rated 09 Apr 2009
0
4th
Incredibly disappointing. How do you fuck up Deadpool so bad? That guy was so great in the comics and Ryan Reynolds plays him and ruins his streak of decent movies. Pathetic. The stunts are pretty decent but that final fight was so bad. Sooooooo bad. Fox blows.
Rated 03 May 2009
56
5th
Wolverine is a bloated film with too many characters and dosen't spend enough time on Wolverine himself. With its forgettable and brainless plot, it's not a movie that leaves you satisfied which is quite a shame when you consider its potential. Nothing in Wolverine stands out as memorable. In terms of tone and content, Wolverine is a close match to Daredevil and Ghost Rider. Wolverine was made by people more interested in money than telling a coherent story so the movie suffers for it.
Rated 03 May 2009
32
19th
A really, really disappointing prequel to the X-Men trilogy. The reason X-Men was so good was because it delt with mutants in a realistic fashion. As in "if people had these powers how would they interact with the real world?" X-Men Origins: Wolverine is simply a over-the-top action film. Full of cliches and obviously cut down dialog sequences and conflicts that are flatly absurd. Hugh Jackman is good as Wolverine, and Ryan Reynolds was a great choice for Deadpool but man did they ruin that.
Rated 04 May 2009
45
28th
Will.I.Am's mutant power should have been RnB.
Rated 30 Apr 2009
10
0th
How can you mess up great characters like Deadpool, Gambit and dare I say even Wolverine? The sinister anti-hero with the cloudy past is reduced to a poster boy for steriod consumption and comic (or what non-comic readers think of as comic) clichés. Liev Schreiber pleasantly surprises as a finally solid sabretooth, but this movie should have received a mercy kill after the first 20 minutes. Thanks a lot marvel for selling out yet again.
Rated 30 Apr 2009
25
5th
They lost me early on when "Deadpool" was deflecting bullets from multiple machine guns just by twirling his swords around. I'm all for suspending disbelief--it's a movie about mutants after all--but there are a number of silly moments and it's just a generally stupid movie. I like Jackman as Wolverine, but the rest of the cast are unappealing, the fights suck, the special effects are often terrible (a driving scene that looks like rear-projection), the dialogue is goofy, oops, out of room...
Rated 24 Jun 2017
4
13th
A friend of mine agreed to watch The Happening if I would finally sit through this mirthless piece of dreck. Best. Deal. Ever.
Rated 29 Jul 2014
20
6th
So, confession time you guys, I watched an illegal copy of this. It turned out to be a sort of pre-release version, where the CGI effects weren't finished in the last scene. So you'd have Wolverine dart around in a wireframe landscape, sort of like the Star Trek holodeck, when it's not running a program. One would think that this would teach me a lesson, but ironically it is the only thing I remember from it. Danny Huston was in this?!
Rated 29 Jul 2011
16
5th
How can you fuck up Wolverine this much? Amazing.
Rated 09 Nov 2009
30
21st
There are one or two entertaining moments here, but they're few and far between. Mostly this film bores and disappoints in equal measure. The bland story & script that excludes or needlessly amends the best sections of the comic book history of Wolverine means you spend most of this film lamenting what a missed oppitunity it clearly is. On top of that the casting is frankly awful, the performances poor, & much of the CGI woeful, which is amazing considering the budget. A mess.
Rated 26 May 2009
86
63rd
There are some good moments and the final battle was very cool too.After all those bad reviews I expected a great disaster but It wasn't that bad in my opinion.It wasn't the big shot I thought this prequel would be, but it was much better than x-men 3.
Rated 02 May 2009
29
17th
Rated 03 May 2014
20
6th
Why did they even bother making their own origin for wolverine when there are plenty of versions out there that are far superior then this crappy one.
Rated 13 Dec 2012
50
3rd
This movie is so bad, i considered (and immediately deleted evidence of the idea caming to my mind, yet still considered) to burning my comic books, throwing them from window to street then go out and burn them again, on the street, just to be sure.
Rated 31 May 2012
30
5th
Even though I haven't read the comics, I can tell that the makers of this have crammed together as many strands from the original comic's histories as possible and strung them together on the vaguest and thinnest of plot strands, the results of which was going to be a failure, and with its serious tone never having a sense of messy silliness to it. No one would get a lot from this, X-Men comic fans or not.
Rated 11 Jan 2012
66
8th
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is poorly written, even for a comicbook-based-character. Jackman is the high-light but this lacked a lot of good characters. Not just that, but there are some crappy visual effects for the most part. Gambit was good (with the screen time he actually got), and Schreiber is an awesome Sabertooth. Most of the other characters (like Wade Wilson) don't get their screen time they deserved either.
Rated 19 Aug 2011
5
2nd
I've seen Jean Claude Van Damme movies that made more sense, had more emotion, and were less cheesy
Rated 29 Mar 2011
30
12th
Someone please kill me. Then maybe my head can fall off and spin in a circle in a cooling tower of a nuclear power plant so my laser eyes can cut it down with out managing to kill hundreds of civilians in the Three Mile Island area.
Rated 10 Mar 2010
10
1st
Infantile dialogues, cheesy moon lovestory, lame superpowers. Bad acting (except for Hugh Jackman). Dumbass storyline inversions. A basically invincible Wolverine. What a waste of time
Rated 02 Jan 2010
33
12th
They knew which characters to use, but not how to use them. Gambit's role was terribly underplayed, and Deadpool was just... The less said about the rape of Deadpool, the better. Character misuse aside, the plot is rehashed from better films, and the action scenes are mildly creative at best, terrible at worst. Thre was a lot of squandered potential here, and it was hard to watch.
Rated 03 Oct 2009
30
6th
A boring, plodding mess of a film, somewhat redeemed by the idea that I hope the actors making the movie had a worse time than I did watching it. Avoid.
Rated 24 May 2009
25
9th
A few action scenes look great and Schreiber does a good job. Most action scenes look like shit and almost everyone else does a horrible job, especially the writers.
Rated 04 May 2009
55
22nd
Starts pretty well actually, but totally loses it in the middle. And there was always this "yeah, seen this before" feeling. Too bad. So much potential given away.
Rated 25 Apr 2009
25
9th
It would be difficult to make a film that handles this character more poorly than this attempt does. Absolute garbage.
Rated 27 Oct 2018
50
13th
I’m not quite sure what I watched, but it was that mind-numbingly stupid that I thought a team of monkeys must have written it. The blurst of times.
Rated 30 Nov 2016
30
12th
About 45 minutes in i realised i had actually seen X-Men Borigins before, it's that forgettable. For the most part it's a bog-standard action movie with awful dialogue. It mostly stands out because of some of its hilariously bad CGI, ridiculous plot and idiotic characters. It's not a complete loss because some of its positive points; The acting is fairly solid (except Taylor Kitch sucks), i had a few laughs due to its badness and it's mercifully short. Yes, its shortness is a positive trait...
Rated 31 Jul 2015
18
4th
Starts out as an origin story for Wolverine based on the rather underwhelming comic but at some point it shifts to being a prequel for the trilogy. Basically it knows where it begins and it knows where it has to end, but the result is much as if someone attempted to seriously write out what comes after stealing everybody's underpants but before profit. Far too many clichés, to little humour, uninspired casting and Reynolds is not Deadpool and never will be.
Rated 09 Sep 2014
3
11th
As a kid I was never the one in the group who liked Wolverine. Yet somehow, without fail, I find myself seeing every Wolverine movie in theatres. I always tell myself "never again" but, like some sort of sadist, I find myself planted firmly within that theatre chair again. This one is probably the worst of the X-Men movies I've seen and it disappoints me that I'm not disappointed by this movie. I enjoyed Liev Schreiber's interpretation of Sabertooth, but that's about it. Avoid this one.
Rated 12 Jun 2014
23
11th
Wether its continuity, the bad dialogue, the forced in amnesia and romance, or just the fact they ruined so many well established characters. This films just fails in so many regards.
Rated 01 Mar 2014
0
7th
Why do I do this to myself?
Rated 05 Jan 2014
5
0th
Terrible Origins film for Wolverine; The comics(and some of the other X-men films) did it better. Not worth it.
Rated 04 Nov 2013
3
14th
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is just about as disastrous as X3. With the exception of the reliable Hugh Jackman, this unnecessary spin-off is poorly written and forgettable. There's absolutely no sense of continuity and with backstory and certain characters this prequel undoes so much that X-Men & X2 fleshed out. There's so many horrible interpretations of characters. But they make a complete mess of Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool in particular and the character is given an unforgivable disservice.
Rated 29 Oct 2013
40
15th
What could have been a really interesting study of one of the most deep and fascinating characters in comics turned out to be a cheap looking CGI knock-about with laughably ham fisted attempts at emotional tension where there was none physical. Plus someone thought casting Will.I.Fuck was a good idea.
Rated 22 Oct 2013
10
11th
no.
Rated 30 Aug 2013
40
11th
Straying so far from the canon inevitably reduces this flick to popcorn, and leaves it entertaining to the eye, but soulless as a film.
Rated 30 Jun 2013
49
19th
Too kiddy-oriented
Rated 11 Aug 2012
35
17th
Pointless and dumb, this movie can only appeal to fans of the comics - specifically, fans who go to the movies to see their favorite characters, yet don't mind the fact that the characters in the movie bear little to no resemblance to the character they're familiar with.
Rated 07 Jun 2012
43
6th
Full of cliches. Does not reach its potential at all..
Rated 06 May 2012
36
23rd
An interesting addition to the movie version of the X-Men history, but it doesn't stand well on it's own. There's quite a bit of variance from the comics, which I suppose is to be expected, but there are also some continuity issues with the other movies as like a standing Xavier and a teen age Snow Queen in the 70s (she was an adult in the 60s in First Class). Worth watching, so long as you know it doesn't make any sense even within the X-Men universe.
Rated 18 Mar 2012
20
3rd
Should be forgotten
Rated 08 Jan 2012
0
6th
Hugh Jackman needs to stop playing Wolverine. He has made the character into a caricature.
Rated 19 Dec 2011
30
7th
All aboard, comic book nerds! Join us on this painfully generic tour of b-grade characters in 100% live action! We were too lazy to make an adequate story that may have made anything happening remotely interesting, but what do you care? You're just a dumb 20-year-old with the attention span of a LOOK THERE'S THE BLOB!! AW, COOL!
Rated 11 Dec 2011
65
4th
About on par with X3, Wolverine is a story we nerds wanted to see told. Problem is we wanted it told right. The life and times of James 'Wolverine' Howlett has been mashed together with other Marvel characters in such a way that makes us nerds cringe. The action comes off more cheesy than ever before, and somehow the CG feels like a step down from previous films. It's ultimately senseless action, nothing really substantial.
Rated 25 Nov 2011
29
9th
Action. Whatever.
Rated 21 Jul 2011
34
34th
The action is terrible and the CGI is completely over the top. Nowhere near as fun as the previous 3 X-men movies.
Rated 01 Jun 2011
40
10th
Bit of a mess. Jackman and Schreiber are fine, and there are some decent moments, but the clumsy plotting and dodgy effects let it down.
Rated 27 Feb 2011
65
5th
This movie was lame.
Rated 17 Jan 2011
68
6th
Crappy
Rated 16 Aug 2010
25
3rd
inhumanly violent and pointless
Rated 03 Jul 2010
10
1st
God help future Marvel films.
Rated 05 Jun 2010
17
4th
Dour and self-serious, giving the title tough an inner anguish generated by a particularly pronounced case of sibling rivalry that marinated for decades. It's a movie delivered through tightly gritted teeth, so relentlessly tense and angry that it's a wonder that any of the people in the film can even breathe.
Rated 11 May 2010
20
7th
Just as you thought the X-men-films were utterly ruined after watching The Last Stand, then this comes along. I almost cried. I love Hugh Jackman, but not even him running naked through a field could save this. The action scenes were badly (!) made; I'm pretty sure I spotted a shot which hadn't been colorgraded in the last fighting scene (red sky - green-ish sky - then back to red in next clip). And what have you done to Deadpool?! The merc with a mouth - now without mouth! Well done.
Rated 10 May 2010
50
6th
There is nothing more dangerous to bad guys than wolverine right after a close-up. It's so effective, he spams the move like shooting ice blasts with sub zero in mortal kombat.
Rated 19 Apr 2010
2
16th
Stupid, stupid, everywhere you look is stupid. A modicum of camp value saves it, but the comic fan inside me was crying.
Rated 20 Mar 2010
65
15th
I'll watch anything with Wolverine but Jesus Christ.
Rated 16 Mar 2010
32
4th
laughably lame
Rated 07 Mar 2010
40
9th
Terrible piece of dreck that completely lacks the character development and interest of the previous X-Men movies.
Rated 24 Feb 2010
15
4th
Waste.
Rated 15 Jan 2010
55
19th
Hugh Jackman is wasted in this attempt to bring a standalone Wolverine movie. It's difficult to explain why the producers just didn't ask the director to adapt the original source material which would have been fine. There are lots of ridiculous CGI effects (Blob) here and Liev Schreiber just doesn't work as sabertooth. Ryan Reynolds is a good Deadpool but once again it seems like the director was confused as to what to do with him. Waste of effort for everyone involved.
Rated 04 Jan 2010
58
23rd
This movie is more of prequel for the X-Men movies. I saw this movie with literally no expectation which is why it probably got a higher score than what I should have given. The biggest flaw of this movie is that it truly doesnt focus on the life of Wolverine but ends up as a melting pot for many characters. The one actor who really stood out was Liev Schreiber who plays the role of Sabertooth.
Rated 16 Dec 2009
55
13th
Worse than X-Men 3...sad.
Rated 28 Oct 2009
45
5th
The worst X-Men movie by a healthy stretch. The bad things are obvious, so I'll just mention what really bothered me: When the hell is this film taking place? We go straight from Vietnam to. . .the modern age? But that can't possibly be right. How did NO ONE think of this? Only saving graces are Dominic Monaghan and Taylor Kitsch.
Rated 20 Aug 2009
25
3rd
This has to be one of the worst films of 2009. CGI and story are horrible. Fox does not care at all about the Wolverine character at all. All they care about is money and they do not care about the X-Men fan community. Fox created a crap film, and I will not watch the sequel to this film.
Rated 20 Aug 2009
35
5th
Yeah, it's the X-men, and that's kinda cool. Otherwise, not much by way of plot, lame characterization, and a movie that tried to pack way too much into its two hours. Go read a graphic novel instead.
Rated 20 Jul 2009
1
11th
Terrible in every way, Jackman has no real screen presence in this unnecessary prequel. What are we supposed to take away from this, when we already know how it's going to turn out based on three movies that came before it?
Rated 16 Jul 2009
80
80th
I found it very entertaining, I didn't expect it to be that good. But it's a shame that some things we already knew about Wolverine appear so affected and are brought so affected in this film. The story is good, but they could have given some details some more thought..
Rated 10 Jun 2009
60
16th
It was ok to watch it, but nothing more. Don't expect any great plot developments - and: just forget about any plot that you might have heard before, let's say from X-Men 1-3, because they just didn't care in this one! Apart from that, Jackman plays his role well, all the other actors are fine, too, as are the fight scenes. Just don't watch it for the story...
Rated 06 Jun 2009
40
21st
If this had been R-rated, it would have been much better. The exciting thing about Wolverine is his ability to slice and dice anything and anyone, and this film doesn't even show the blood from his claws coming out. Schreiber makes a fun and convincingly bloodthirsty bad guy, and the film would be much weaker without him and Jackman--both good actors there, but the story is weak, and the film doesn't take the time to establish things before it tries to be dramatic about them.
Rated 23 May 2009
49
19th
Stupid
Rated 13 May 2009
50
16th
no story, bad action, shitty film
Rated 12 May 2009
0
3rd
Horrible, horrible, horrible. As KasperL noted: Actually worse than "X-Men III". And that's no mean feat. Every single one of the characters (perhaps minus Schreiber's character) is underused and/or misused. Just terrible. Oh yeah. And worst final fight I can remember off the top of my head.
Rated 08 May 2009
30
25th
Extremely formulaic and predictable. Also, the ending was horrible! I'm old school reading X-Men and Wolverine comics and I don't remember Professor Xavier showing up on 3-Mile Island and rescuing a bunch of mutants. One last thing: Why was Ryan Reynolds in this movie? He is the poor man's Dane Cook, which would be okay if Dane Cook wasn't already the poor man's Dane Cook! Bottom line: take the $10 you'd spend on this and buy yourself a couple of hits of LSD. You'll have a way better time.
Rated 07 May 2009
40
11th
An absurd attempt of conciling contradictory stories of 'Origin' and 'Weapon X' as well as Singer's X-Men and some individual producers ideas results in a boring and slightly pathetic sequence of explosions, fights striving to be impressive and failing and characters pulling faces and growling at each other. It's quite annoying to think how much better it could be if only producers chose to adapt 'Weapon X' instead of aiming at PG-13 rating with it's laughable violence and romance.
Rated 06 May 2009
75
34th
Not as bad as it's made out to be. Much more comic-booky than a lot of its contemporaries. It's over the top, without irony, which doesn't seem to fly as much with viewers or critics these days. I enjoyed it, but my only real gripes are some bad CGI and the fudging of Deadpool's continuity. Otherwise, not the shabbiest.
Rated 06 May 2009
77
51st
I've come to the realization that critics can't be trusted anymore because for some reason over-the-top without irony is no longer acceptable. Definitely better than Last Stand and possibly better than X-Men 1. This is a serious X-Men road movie, there are badass mutants popping up each scene being badass with a surprising amount of character, depth, and mythology thrown in for good measure. The experience of watching this movie is not unlike reading a 6 issue comic series.
Rated 04 May 2009
78
48th
beyond average but among my expectations
Rated 04 May 2009
50
15th
Wolverine is known for being a badass. Gambit is known for throwing playing cards. Deadpool is known for his nonstop mouth. So what do they do? Wolverine is a giant pussy. Gambit throws cards once. And they sewed Deadpool's mouth shut. The stuff in between that wasn't that interesting either.
Rated 04 May 2009
28
9th
It's lazy, irresponsible, and wrong. What a waste.
Rated 03 May 2009
42
22nd
Rated 03 May 2009
30
4th
To be honest, all I wanted was a cool Deadpool/Wade and at first it seemed like they were doing alright but then it went bad. Almost everything about this movie is crap, except for a couple good performances (among some bad ones). The first 20 mins or so were genuinely interesting.
Rated 03 May 2009
79
55th
Wolverine has always been a 1-dimensional character (that dimension? Badass!) that works best when given different personality types to bounce off of. Not so here, where almost every character comes from the "Let God sort 'em out" School of KickAssery. Testosterone levels r high enough that pregnant women should sit a minimum of 15 rows back, but it could be worse. The action sequences (thankfully there's a lot of em) are mostly well done& the story keeps things moving at a generally brisk pace
Rated 02 May 2009
35
16th
I wanted to say something positive about this, but all the good parts of the movie were apparently seen as detrimental by the producers because they were done away with in the first 15 minutes (I'm talking mainly about purposeful mutant-power action sequences, Dominic Monaghan and an audible and recognizable Ryan Reynolds). The rest is a messy jumble of Wolverine's greatest hits, dead lovers, homoerotic wrestling matches with Schreiber, and "times he yelled at the sky with his arms splayed."
Rated 02 May 2009
2
14th
Crap. The biggest problem isn't the action or the effects but the fact that there are only two real CHARACTERS in the movie - Wolverine and Victor Creed - and then lots and lots of cameos with a few minutes of screentime apiece. It's not the worst brainless popcorn spectacle I've seen but it's impossible to become invested.
Rated 20 Apr 2009
1
8th
Ryan Reynolds managed to be a good Deadpool and they still fucked it up. Even worse than the third, hard to believe that it exists.
Rated 11 Apr 2009
50
36th
Middle entertaining. But is not good enough to be relevant. The story was not well prepared, and unnecessarily change the true story of the comics. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine is good, but the others characters does not are much convince.
Rated 01 Apr 2009
6
26th
Everything is handled okay, but it's not very fun or engaging. Hugh Jackman is good as Wolverine, then again it's the fourth time we've seen him in the role. I want to say I liked this movie more, but the bad aspects of it canceled out the good ones. However it was still better than X-Men The Last Stand
Rated 04 Sep 2024
62
12th
Pretty formulaic movie. A couple interesting twists but pretty forgettable.
Rated 18 Aug 2024
4
12th
The opening scene and credits montage do well to establish the unique brother dynamic that comes to a head with Jimmy’s departure from the squad, but it disappears afterwards as they go their separate ways. The last act has a good twist but it makes the stakes for the final battle unclear, and the confusing team-up with Gambit and Victor (we’ve hated him the whole movie; it “doesn’t change things between us”) make the whole thing almost laughable. Bad VFX throughout doesn’t help matters.
Rated 15 Aug 2024
40
6th
the less said, the better.
Rated 13 Aug 2024
30
7th
everytime i'm about to watch this, i expect something terrible and i'm surprised everytime, it's worse.. why do i keep watching it
Rated 02 Jul 2024
2
12th
After saying "target two, coming to you" they shoulda said "a ramma damma doo, a zigga zagga boo"
Rated 17 Sep 2023
62
26th
audiovisual 62 acting 58 overall feeling 65 avg 62
Rated 16 Jul 2023
30
16th
don't remember it
Rated 24 Jun 2023
30
2nd
Why couldn't the montage through time have been the whole movie?
Rated 17 Apr 2023
60
17th
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is mediocre at best. The only thing that it has going for it are some cool actions scenes and cameos by a bunch of minor X-Men/Marvel characters. I am not the biggest Marvel fanboy but there seemed to be some points that didn't make sense to me. Did Deadpool actually have sword hands? I don't know but since that movie came out a few years after this and he didn't in that movie it just seems like a plot hole. It's fun at times but I don't think I'd watch it again.
Rated 22 Feb 2023
55
45th
I mean…I enjoyed it in the theatre and that feels like regrettable sex. But here we are, all cigarette butts, wine stains and broken bra straps.
Rated 08 May 2021
3
10th
This is not a good film, and it retcons a lot from the original trilogy for very strange reasons, but it's not nearly as bad as I remembered. The romance plot works, and some of the action is well done. Still forgettable.

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