QUOTE(kobe8byrant @ May 1 2009, 02:51 AM)
I should have known better.
When Liev Schreiber comes out of the trailer and says something like 'Ooo, shiney!' *cheeky grin*,
you know you're watching a 2 hour wrestling show because this is what the spot-fest (It's not a film, it's a spot fest) is. It's a piss poor attempt of a story which serves one purpose - to testosterone it up a few notches. It isn't pretty at all. With some of the worst CGI effects in a summer movie since Race to Witch Mountain [Wolverine in the mirror scene] and the lamest reaction scene [Wolverine walking away from a blown up helicopter], I thought it was impossible to do worse than X3 but they did it. They actually managed to do it.
Whether its source material or not, I cannot judge but with classics like Watchmen, Iron Man and Dark Knight, you thought that they had finally perfected the recipe for superhero movies by making us care for them, Wolverine proves that that isn't the case.
I await reviews from Makakeke and Quickfire.
EDIT: fix some punctuation and paragraphing.
In perspective, I liked Fast and Furious a lot more than I liked this. Jackman while a better actor and more charismatic than Vin Diesel, I cared more for Dom than Logan.
I couldn't agree more.
If X3 was horrible, this movie is even more appalling.
The opening was still acceptable as it followed the official Wolverine:Origins comic, but it went totally downhill from there. Although it still hangs loosely to the Wolverine stories that we know and love, the execution was dreadful. The action scenes were predictable, yet the attempts to be cheeky failed miserably. The final battle was like a computer game - the villain had godmode + clipping mode on, and the CGI was of low quality.
Ironman actually had similar problems - strip away the comedy and fancy special effects, it's just another superhero movie with a mediocre and predictable storyline. But the success of Ironman was that it kept viewers entertained and connected to Tony Stark's character development. Wolverine, on the other hand, did not.
Oh yeah... FnF... haven't watched that yet. Tokyo Drift was actually pretty enjoyable for me but 2F2F was boring with a capital B. Paul Walker only had one expression and that's it.