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May 15, 2009 - By Mike Gray
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As a child in 1845, Logan becomes able to heal quickly and sprout bone-claws when he becomes angry. His brother Victor, played by Liev Schreiber, can do the same.
They go on to fight in all the wars that come but by Vietnam Logan is done, causing him to desert his brother and the rest of the mutant unit led by Col. Stryker, played by Danny Huston. His brother becomes angry, so he tricks Logan into participating in an experiment where “Adamantium†alloy is adhered to his skeleton.
Jackson's charisma carries this movie. The plot is not terribly interesting or even new - it is a conflict between two brothers. A conflict which is barely fleshed out and not terribly exciting. None of the other mutants introduced in the movie are particularly well-done and all appear to be the same, even those played by Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Kitsch.
These mutants are thrown in seemingly randomly and distract from Logan, the supposed point of the movie. Many parts of this movie contradict what occurred in X-Men 1-3, which leaves you coming out of this movie confused if you remember the others.
The movie is filled with not particularly exciting action scenes, which are all that the movie has to make it interesting.
For a few brief moments Logan's sadness and other pre-anger emotions come out but always as a prelude to anger, leaving you not knowing much more about him than you did walking in -" which seems strange for an “origins†movie.
It seems as though the filmmakers did not put a lot of actual thought into this movie and were trying to rely on America's excitement and pleasure-seeking nature to make this a hit.
Rating: 3/5 stars
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