This weekend I finally caught up with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I had heard mixed things about it, ranging from pretty entertaining to pretty bad. I’ve enjoyed the X-Men movies so far (I even liked the much criticized third movie, although it was clearly the weakest of the first three).
Unfortunately, the fourth installment in the franchise is an outright dud. Yikes. Not good.
Hugh Jackman was his usual charismatic self, but otherwise this was a baaaaaaaad movie. The writing was awful,This weekend I finally caught up with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I had heard mixed things about it, ranging from pretty entertaining to pretty bad. I’ve enjoyed the X-Men movies so far (I even liked the much criticized third movie, although it was clearly the weakest of the first three).
Unfortunately, the fourth installment in the franchise is an outright dud. Yikes. Not good.
Hugh Jackman was his usual charismatic self, but otherwise this was a baaaaaaaad movie. The writing was awful, the acting was awful (outside of Jackman and Liev Schreiber), the action sequences were mostly staged and just too fake for their own good and story unto itself was just lazy. Been there done that.
When it comes to superhero movies I’m pretty much willing to suspend all levels of disbelief and just go with the flow. Entertain me. But when you fill a movie with cliched writing and sloppy plots, well, it’s tough to overlook the flaws.
I wanted to like this movie, and in a bad way it was, I suppose, minimally entertaining. Kinda. Sorta. In a lame TV movie kind of way. But this was far and away the worst of the four X-Men movies. In fact, it was just far and away a bad movie.
Oh well. Maybe the next one will be better.
