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X-Men Origins: Wolverine is everything one would expect from an X-Men movie, but sadly it cannot entirely escape its …origins. In the Marvel Comics stories, the Wolverine character was originally a trained killer who wasn't sure exactly who he is or where he came from. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" does try to shine a little light on the character's background. But ironically, it seems to be having an identity crisis, much like the title character.
If X-Men Origins: Wolverine suggests anything, it's that living, breathing people in big-budget blockbusters are rapidly becoming obsolete. Hugh Jackman (also credited as producer) may be the contractual star of this Marvel Comics-inspired production, which explores the history of one of Marvel's most popular and conflicted heroes, but technology is what makes this movie what it is, a film with the personality of a $150 million video game.
The filmmakers—among them Tsotsi director Gavin Hood and 25th Hour writer David Benioff relegate the most interesting parts of Logan’s early story to an thrilling title sequence that dashes in 1845 in darkest Canada (actually shot in Jackman's native Australia), where our hero wants only the simple life of a lumberjack and an occasional bad dream. The young Logan (Wolverine) kills the man whom he believes to be the murderer of his father. It turns out that Logan is a mutant who has sharp bony claws protruding from his knuckles at will. The sequence establishes the origins of half-brothers Wolverine (Jackman) and Sabertooth (Liev Schreiber) and we follow them through tours in every major U.S. war through Vietnam, we have a clear understanding of their back story. Wolverine is more man than beast, a fearsome fighting machine but one that knows the meaning of mercy.
Six years later, Logan has seemingly found peace, working as a lumberjack and living with beautiful schoolteacher Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). However, when tragedy strikes (again), Logan's grief and hunger for revenge leads him to Stryker, who promises to make him indestructible by fusing his skeleton with metal alloy adamantium.
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