X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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	Hugh Jackman	Logan
	Liev Schreiber	Victor Creed
	Danny Huston	Stryker
	Will I Am	John Wraith
	Lynn Collins	Kayla Silverfox
	Kevin Durand	Fred Dukes
	Dominic Monaghan	Bradley
	Taylor Kitsch	Remy LeBeau
	Daniel Henney	Agent Zero
	Ryan Reynolds	Wade Wilson
	Tim Pocock	Scott Summers
	Julia Blake	Heather Hudson
	Max Cullen	Travis Hudson
	Troye Sivan	James
	Michael-James Olsen	Young Victor
	Peter O'Brien	John Howlett
	Aaron Jeffery	Thomas Logan
	Alice Parkinson	Elizabeth Howlett
	Philip A. Patterson	Firing Squad Leader
	Anthony Gee	Carnival Guy
	Adelaide Clemens	Carnival Girl
	Karl Beattie	School Child
	Tom O'Sullivan	Logging Supervisor
	Myles Pollard	Phelan
	Stephen Anderton	Marcuse

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Director	Gavin Hood
Writer	David Benioff, Skip Woods
Producer	Richard Donner, Louis G. Friedman, Hugh Jackman, Stan Lee, Peter MacDonald, John Palermo, Lauren Shuler Donner, Marsha L. Swinton, Whitney Thomas, Ralph Winter
Musician	Harry Gregson-Williams
Photography	Donald McAlpine

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My quick rating - 6,7/10. Shuffle choice since I am working and this works fine since I have seen it, just hasn't hit my blog yet. Always has been my favorite superhero so I was at the theater opening night to see this one. I had forgotten how many other superheroes they had gotten involved in this one. The story itself is well done and follows fairly decently to the comic version. Hugh Jackman seemingly was born to portray Wolverine and does it so effectively I cannot see anyone else stepping in. And Liev Schreiber is a step above the usual acting seen in superhero flix is well. Casting from top to bottom in this is all well done. You even get your first look at a younger Deadpool in Ryan Reynolds. Action is top-notch in all aspects utilizing that budget to its full extent. What they didn't utilize was what was already established. No more did we get constant wisecracks from our clawed hero. I suppose they left that for Deadpool or something. And they completely threw away the opportunity to use one of Marvels great characters with Gambit. Now 13 years later, they still haven't given him his movie although I think with the way Marvel is now, it will be coming as soon as they are allowed to FULLY use the X-Men. Click to read the reasons but it won't be happening until after 2025. But in this one, Gambit is a throwaway character who doesn't really get much time to develop. If this was in lead to something to come, it would make sense but obviously, that wasn't the case. But gripes aside, this is still an entertaining entry into the X-Men universe and does explain the character better for those who enjoyed the first few X-Men flix but also wanted to know where Wolverine came from. Click the poster below to rent it on Amazon.

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