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Monday, October 12, 2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, USA)

You know an action movie is crap when you fall asleep during the climatic fight scene. Seriously, for boasting a mostly kick-ass cast [Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Taylor Kitsch – the less said about Will.i.am, the better – and Ryan Reynolds (though it was apparently too costly to use him in more than one scene)], Wolverine is totally uninspired, and after excessive jaw-clenching and brow-furrowing on Jackman's part, I was rooting for Schreiber’s gleefully nasty (at least someone’s having fun) Victor Creed to take Logan out, and cause some sort of time-space rupture that would nullify all of the X-Men films, and hopefully keep Marvel from making any more of these half-baked prequels.

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