Ahh Wolverine, or should I say Logan, you are a truly man created out of angst and agony. I'd wake up screaming i the middle of the night if I'd had to live through so many wars, family tragedies and that loathsome brother of yours, Victor, who always looked well dodgy. Anyone who has dirty fingernails is pretty suspicious as far as I'm concerned. And as for switching those bone claws to metal.... ouch!
So 'X-Men Origins' is upon us, and if it's going to be the blockbuster they're hoping for, I'm exactly the kind of audience they'll have to connect with. I don't tend to go for these superhero kind of movies and I'm still sore about Spiderman 3 even after all this time. But, lo and behold, this is actually pretty good. Not rush out the day the dvd is released kind of good. But good enough to be entertaining. There's depth here, behind the pretty spectacular special effects. Characters have time to develop and the story is actually going somewhere. Standard for most movies but often missing from the big blockbusters. It helps to have Danny Huston on hand, who always delivers as far as I'm concerned, and he makes a good villain. Even the appearance of Patrick Stewart somehow manages to work, although don't spend too much time pondering how he knew where and when to appear. In general though, the claws and whiskers work.
