X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

PG-13

2009

1h 48m

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Seeking solace from his dark past, Logan (Hugh Jackman), better known as Wolverine, seems to have found love and contentment with Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). Logan's peaceful existence is shattered when Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), his vicious brother, brutally murders Kayla. Logan's thirst for revenge propels him into the Weapon X program, where he undergoes a painful procedure to bond his bones with adamantium, making him virtually indestructible and more than a match for Victor.

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Critics Consensus

Though Hugh Jackman gives his all, he can't help X-Men Origins: Wolverine overcome a cliche-ridden script and familiar narrative.

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Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out

11/06/2018

2/5

Revenge soon grips Logan when his love is taken away, but Tsotsi director Gavin Hood seems bored by the sibling rivalry; even the Frankensteinian weaponizing of a human body feels rushed.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

11/06/2018

Wolverine starts with a roar before sliding into a chaotic, preachy mess.

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Laremy Legel

Film.com

07/07/2010

B-

You won't be upset you saw it, you'll have some fun, you'll see Wolvie beat the living hell out of a helicopter.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

04/06/2024

It’s violent and cruel and shrouded in darkness, filled with the complicated backstories and the weirdly incestuous origin details from the comic books that [are] confusing and confounding and no substitute for a story.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

09/19/2023

2/4

Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

11/29/2020

6/10

Even when the hand-to-hand combat looks impressive, the stunts get far-fetched, pushing the special effects to the limit.

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Gononan B.

@biggononanotthelilone 2d

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) dives into Wolverine’s backstory with cool action and his rivalry with Sabretooth, but the story feels uneven and some character choices don’t land, making it entertaining but flawed.

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Braxton D.

@RT08980358 Apr 15

It was really weird

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Christian K

@ckacar Apr 9

Remember enjoying this originally but this is pretty trash, 17 year old brain.

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Kevin P

@RT55971421 Mar 13

The infamous attempt at a Wolverine origin story that's entertainingly bad and unintentionally hilarious. Hugh Jackman is trying, but even he seems confused and doesn't really know what's going on. The movie is most infamous among fans for its horrible butchering of Deadpool that sowed his mouth shut and looks nothing like him. Will.I.Am plays a mutant cowboy and it's just as goofy as you'd expect. Ryan Reynolds is decently entertaining as Deadpool before they sow his mouth shut and ruin him. I have very mixed feelings about Wolverine's bone claws. They make sense for his mutant powers. But they just look weird and kind of gross. Not very intimidating. The movie has lots of slow-mo and explosions during the over-the-top action scenes that border on cartoon physics. The CGI adamantium claws look bizarrely cartoonish and fake, and it's really jarring. It's a bad origin movie. But it's an unintentionally hilarious bad origin movie.

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Qua'Mik C

@RT72232395 Mar 10

I'ma just say what everyone is thinking. THIS MOVIE IS FUCKING ASS

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John C

@JayDizzle209 Feb 6

Just awful. Don't waste your time with this one. You'll get more pleasure watching the animated series than this junk. And the animated series has better writing too! A Jubilee movie would've been way, way, better than this!@

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Synopsis

Seeking solace from his dark past, Logan (Hugh Jackman), better known as Wolverine, seems to have found love and contentment with Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). Logan's peaceful existence is shattered when Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), his vicious brother, brutally murders Kayla. Logan's thirst for revenge propels him into the Weapon X program, where he undergoes a painful procedure to bond his bones with adamantium, making him virtually indestructible and more than a match for Victor.

Director: Gavin Hood
Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter, John Palermo, Hugh Jackman
Screenwriter: David Benioff, Skip Woods
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Donners' Company, Seed
Rating: PG-13 (Some Partial Nudity|Intense Sequences of Action|Violence)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 1, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $179.9M
Runtime: 1h 48m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)