Okay, so I complained that Hollywood movies are always delayed here in Singapore, but apparently that’s not true. Some movies do get shown the same day as the rest of the world, like X-Men Origins: Wolverine which I got to watch today.
After the X-Men trio of movies, they’ve decided to make movies on the origins of the individual movies and started off with the unarguably the most popular mutant in the gang, Wolverine.
The back story they made was in line with the movies and not the comic series, and so James (Wolverine’s real name) is born in Canada and grows up with a brother, Victor. They both have the healing factor which makes them perfect as soldiers, and they fight many wars side by side till they get a special assignment with fellow mutants. In the middle of a mission, however, Logan (Wolverine’s other real name) walks off when he thinks a line of morality is crossed.
Years later we find him settled as a lumberjack and in a happy relationship with Kayla. Then Victor walks back into his life and kills her, and in his desire for vengeance, Logan agrees to his former boss Stryker’s plan to fuse adamantium alloy to his skeleton to make him virtually indestructible.
Later on, he finds out that it was Stryker’s plan all along to plant Kayla in his path and have Victor pretend to kill her to get him to agree to the adamantium experiment. Stryker sics his new weapon Eleven after Logan, and just when he thinks he is losing, Victor lends a helping hand, saying that they are brothers and only he should get to kill Logan. Together they defeat the enemy, but just before Logan escapes, Stryker plants adamantium bullets in his brain. It doesn’t kill him because his brain can still heal, but his memories cannot. So he wakes up with no recognition of who he is.
This is where Wolverine ends and where X-Men I begins… I suppose. Confession: I didn’t see that movie. I only saw X-Men III.
I was a fan of X-Men in my childhood days, but I must admit that I wasn’t really a huge fan of Wolverine then. But after watching this, lead me to the fan club! I am so signing up! Hugh Jackman is really the best man for this role. I loved his rippling muscles (he so deserves the title of People‘s sexiest man alive in 2008) and his facial expressions, even the way his eyebrows lift. Argh, will you listen to me, I sound like a lovesick idiot.
Aside from Wolverine, the actors who played Wade Wilson, Agent Zero and Gambit also made my pulse quicken. So I think this movie is a movie that both women and men will enjoy – women for the eye candy and men for the action scenes. So yes, I did enjoy the movie tremendously.
This trailer is an excellent preview:
Oh, and if you want a better review of the movie, maybe you ought to read this. And for more pictures, visit Marvel.com, where I also got my pics for this post.
On a related note, what a cute ad:
