X-Men Origins: Wolverine

It centres of course around James Logan / Wolverine, with Hugh Jackman reprising his role from the earlier films. To be honest without Jackman I doubt if this would have happened at all, and many female fans will probably have been happy just to look at him without thinking about the storyline much (especially as he appears naked a couple of times). Wolverine has always been one of the most popular X-Men characters and his story is explored in quite some depth here.

As you would expect there are a lot of fight scenes and explosions; as I had expected this movie tends to focus on these too much (for my liking anyway). The result is often a good spectacle but not great movie-making. There are some lighter moments, and to me the film is much better when it mixes a bit of humour in with the action. While the plot is quite good it's difficult to care much about the characters.

For X-men fans and action junkies, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is definitely worth watching once.

Kramer's first name. The face of Home Improvement's Wilson. What Bill Murray whispered to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation. Add the origin tale of the mutton-chopped X-Man to the list of pop culture mysteries that should have never been solved. Would you really want to know what the contents of Ronin's metal case were? What about the briefcase Jules and Vincent recovered in Pulp Fiction? Odds are that you'd be disappointed with whatever the reveal was; if there's anything Cloverfield taught us (if we didn't already know), it's that the anticipation is always better than the reality.

I may be wrong here but why would a man who is revered for living by his animal instincts need to be shown searching for inner peace and sharing his heart with someone? (I would have graded slightly lower but any film that allows Hugh Jackman to run around naked for ten minutes has to get bonus points.)