As I've mentioned in my previous post, I've been lucky enough to catch some great movies at the cinemas lately... so my next review will be of the much hyped about blockbuster.. (girls hold on to your knickers! haha) X-Men Origins: Wolverine!
WARNING: Movie Spoiler Haters can stop reading from here onwards.. :P
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
OK... to write a review about this movie and not be blindsided by the HUGE eye-candy factor would be hypocritical. I mean, let's be honest here, shall we? How many of you can honestly say you're interested to watch this movie purely based on the storyline eh? We already know that this movie is pretty much a story about Wolverine's mysterious past, how he got his adamantium claws and how he lost his memory (hence the title "ORIGINS")... And even if you didn't know that's what this whole movie is about, if you've seen the previous X-Men trilogies, you would kinda get the picture. So why would you need to watch THIS movie then?
Well... if the eye-candy factor doesn't do it for ya.. then perhaps the long list of popular-but-not-yet-filmed mutant characters would. Wonder what Gambit, Sabertooth, Cyclops and Deadpool looked like when they were younger and bits and pieces of their stories? Well, you'll get all those questions answered in this movie. Oh and did i tell you they were all yummy-licious too? Even the baddies were uber-sexy.. Hehe.
The storyline to the latest X-Men edition is pretty good, well-rounded and smooth-flowing. It preddy much answers all the questions you ever wondered about Wolverine, even the reason of his obsession with Jean-Grey in the earlier X-Men movies. I was slightly disappointed to find that the reason for his torturous experiment as weapon X was kinda cliche'.. However, Wolverine's love-hate relationship with his arch nemesis Sabertooth makes up for all the predictablities in this movie. Their fight scenes exhibit raw, primal power that the previous intallments of X-Men failed to portray.
The cinematography is excellent! I especially loved the beginning part... where they showed how Wolverine & Sabertooth grew up. Artistic and action-packed! The CGIs were superb too. The sceneries were breathtaking.. imagine lush greeneries at the foot of a mountain.. with a glassy lake beyond and the perfectly sculpted form of Hugh Jackman streaking across the field in his birthday suit... hahaha. The actors' performances were great -- Hugh Jackman especially ( and no, I'm not just saying that becoz he looks good with his shirt off, ok? Gimme some credit lar.. huhu). He not only manages to portray raw animal magnetism, but also his vulnerability, that makes him THAT much more appealing. Ryan Reynolds reprises the usual (albeit short-lived) sarcastic-motor-mouth character he always plays in his previous movies, and Liev Schreiber was simply beastly (in a good way!). The only character I'm not raving about is Stryker... he just seemed to lack that evil edge for me. His predictable dialogue did not help much either!
So all in all, this movie is 2-thumbs-up-worthy for me. It has everything -- Action-packed for the guys and Hottie-packed for the ladies. It also does justice to the original comic, methinks... but then again, I'm not that much of a comics person so I can just tell you what I know. Die-hard X-Men fans may object, but hey... its MY blog so i can write whatever i darned well please.. haha!
The only downside to this movie for me is probably all the hype going on about it. You expect it to be super awesome and perfect, and when certain parts of it came up short, you get way too disappointed. And having a die-hard wolverine addict as a sister is no help either! Huhu. Comparatively, Star Trek for example, I went in with low expectations, and so when it exceeded what I had imagined it would be like, it seems much better than Wolverine. Truth be told, it would be unfair to compare these 2 movies as they are both different and unique, but one can't help it, esp if you watched both movies within the same week!
So I'm just gonna rate this movie based on its merits and TRY not to base it on comparison to other movies:
RaveFactor: 4/5
To those who have yet to catch this delish movie... a word of advice, if you please...
Girls: If you plan to ogle yummy Mr Jackman, DON'T go with your hubby/fiancee/boyfriend... it will be preddy awkward! Go with you gal pals instead... this makes a perfect girls-day-out movie (a change from all the usual chick-flicks, surely). And bring plenty of tissues to wipe off your drools.. As a precautionary measure, bring along some smelling salts too! Just in case you swoon from watching too much eye-candy.. hahaha
Guys: If you wanna focus on the action, go with the guys. At least you get to focus on the gritty fights and awesome characters properly without having to endure your gal's dreamy sighs and girly giggles... hahaha
Well, hope you'll enjoy the movie as much as I did! Ciao!
