Customer Reviews
not quite up the X-Men standard - By: falcon, 17 Mar 2010 
for me,this is the worst movie i have seen connected with the X-Men franchise.it's certainly watchable,but it's not up to the X Men standard.i found it slow at times.also,there are some continuity issues regarding this Wolverine & the Wolverine we see in the later X-Men movies as well as with the events themselves & how they play out in the later movies.Hugh Jackman was Fine as Wolverine,as he always has been.Liev Schrieber is good as Victor Creed.and i reallly liked Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool.i just wish he had a bigger role.as for the movie as a whole,it is above average,but as i said,not up to the X-Men standard.for me, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 3/5
Wolverine finally shows his teeth - By: A. J. Dicken, 09 Mar 2010 
If you like the X-Men series you will love this. Plenty of action & shows the darkerside of Wolverine.
It does leave the door open for a second film & I was left wondering what happens to his brother.
Promised more than it delivered - By: Random Hero, 16 Feb 2010 
I was ecstatic when I heard they were finallly bringing out an X-Men movie with Gambit & Deadpool in it, these two are perhaps my favourite characters in the X-Men franchise. When I heard this film was a prequel, I was concerned but still had high hopes but when I saw it at the cinema, I was beyond disappointment.
Wolverine's past had been allluded to in the brilliant X-Men 2, giving hints that Wolverine was a man who had done sinister things with Stryker before losing his memories & to be honest, I think that's the way it should have stayed. Instead, they decided to bring out a film which was pointless from the beginning because you already know how it's going to end, & despite the fact that it's an origin story for Wolverine, they put as many famous mutants from the X-Men comics into this film & leaves them alll underdeveloped & uninspired. This film never needed to be made, especiallly when they could have made a film set after X-Men 3: The Last Stand, which I thought was a poor effort as well, but Origins is far worse.
Gambit & Deadpool aren't given anywhere near enough screen time, Gambit is played well by Taylor Kitsch, & could have been a great character if given more screen time though there are differences from the original comic character. Deadpool however was the worst affected by the writers of this film, when I heard Ryan Reynolds was playing him, I couldn't think of anyone better to play a psychopathic, sadistic, wise cracking mercenary, & Reynolds was brilliant... for the FIVE MINUTES that he's in the film. When he becomes Deadpool however, there is NOTHING in common with the comic version of Deadpool other than the name. They turned Deadpool, the fourth walll breaking merc-with-a-mouth, into a mute plot device that had more powers than Superman & it's no wonder the Deadpool spinoff is being rebooted with a completely different origin.
There are good things about this film however, mainly Hugh Jackman's acting but it's not enough to make this film worth your time. Most kids who are just into popcorn movies will probably like it, but if you like the X-Men comics or Brian Singer's work with the first two X-Men films & hated The Last Stand, this probably won't be for you, because it is worse than The Last Stand.
Not the worst X-men movie.. - By: Bobby, 14 Feb 2010 While it's not as good as the first two X-men movies (cheers Singer for ditching the franchise to bring us that boring movie about Lois Lane!) it's not quite as disappointing as the third movie.
If you like these movies then my advice is ignore the slating it got on original release by the critics because I sometimes wonder why they bother reviewing films like this when they're clearly the kind of people that agree that Dances With Wolves deserved it's best picture Oscar over Goodfellas & likewise Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction - in otherwords grumpy old farts who don't realise the purpose of a film like this.
Wolverine is a decent comic book action film that introduces us to a load of favourite characters from the original comic & gives everybody it's own 5 mins of story. It got action, chases, explosions, fighting, guns & some cracking special effects & on Blu Ray it looks absolutely fantastic - so what more do you want?!
The colours & pictures are possibly the best looking of alll the recent action releases & picture-wise - along with Star Trek - it's one of the best of the year!
Overalll, decent enough movie, could've been slightly better, but the stunning picture, amazing colours & fantastic clarity make it well worth buying over the DVD (although that's included in this package anyway so...)
8/10
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - By: Milt Ingarfield, 12 Feb 2010 In this classy prequel Hugh Jackman reprises his role as Wolverine, the story begins in the 1840's when the character is but a child who along with his brother discover they are not like other little boys & through the use of a montage of time frames show the Wolverine & his older brother Sabre-tooth played by Liev Schreiber(previously seen in Defiance with Daniel Craig) fighting their way across the centuries until the 1970's where, the younger sibling stops the other committing a war crime in Vietnam, its while they are prison after being shot by a firing squad they are approached by the sinister Captain Stryker, this rip roaring fourth instalment is such an improvement of the previous outing that I hope that they make the proposed next instalment of X-Men Origins: Magneto I can hardly wait.
This DVD is presented in 1.78:1 aspect & has a deeply satisfying bass grumbling 5.1 surround sound track where the explosions boom out of the speakers, a true blockbuster.
