X-Men Origins: Wolverine Review

Review
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins: Wolverine to my surprise was really good. But before I go into what I thought about the movie, let me explain the plot.

Plot: The movie starts out in 1845 Canada with a sickly boy by the name of James Howlett watching the murder of his father. With the trauma of his fathers death, James mutates and bone claws come out of his fists. James then thrusts his new claws into his fathers killer. Only to find out that the man whom James just killed was actually his real father. This leads into James and his older mutated brother Victor fighting in the Civil War, Both World Wars and the Vietnam War. Every war, the men become more and more blood thirsty to the point where Victor kills his superior officer. As they sit in their rat infested cell, Major William Stryker enters and offers them to join his mutant special ops. force. They readily join and James takes the name of his real father Logan. But because of their disregard for any human life Logan eventually leaves and settles down in Canada as a lumberjack. One thing leads to another where Victor kills Logan’s girlfriend which sends Logan on a mission of revenge.

That’s about all I can say without spoiling it. Now let’s break into the worldview of this film.

Worldview: The first thing you will notice by watching the trailer and the first 45 minutes of the film is that there is a lot of revenge. A lot of movies base their whole plot on revenge. I remember a poster for the movie “Oceans 13” which said, “Revenge is a funny thing”. To me, this is very disconcerting. The bible clearly say’s in Psalm 94:1 “O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs—O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!”
But X-Men Wolverine brings it with a twist. Yes, most of the movie is about Logan’s revenge for his wife. But, it takes a turn in the end where Logan decides not to take vengeance. He decides not to become the animal he’s treated like.

Conclusion: Wolverine was by far the best X-Men yet. The fighting sequences were awesome. Hugh Jackman pulled off his role as Logan. The Story was well written.