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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) - Critic Reviews - Page 7 of 10

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 30 Apr 2009

Wolverine works as an Ultimate Fighting Championship with special effects…

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By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 30 Apr 2009

Though Jackman is capable, as always, in the title role, there's no real weight to his travails, which play more as exposition than tragedy…

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By Steven D. Greydanus (674) for Decent Films Guide (519) on 30 Apr 2009

You go in knowing it has certain beats to hit, and it hits most of them in ways you might expect … What it's most conspicuously lacking is…

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By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 30 Apr 2009

Hugh Jackman generates the pathos required for us to understand the lifetime of pain and suffering that turned the man into the beast…

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By Tom Huddlestone (75) for Time Out (7,510) on 30 Apr 2009

With some dire blue-screen effects, dizzying tonal instability and a total absence of suspense or originality, 'Wolverine' is something of a disaster…

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By Matt Glasby (349) for Film4 (1,522) on 30 Apr 2009

Imagine Watchmen unafraid to engage with its own idiocy, or Commando with claws - this is an honourable addition to the most consistently enjoyable…

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By James Christopher (268) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 30 Apr 2009

The novel innovation is that these hairy wolves move in contrary ways. That is the dismal sum of the original thinking…

Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Kevin Mccarthy (392) for BDK Reviews (222) on 30 Apr 2009

Besides the amazing first twenty minutes, the biggest problem is that the film could have been so much better and completely over does the…

Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Limara Salt (33) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 30 Apr 2009

Hollywood has got its grubby little hands all over the greatest comic book character of all time and he stinks of it…

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By Charles Gant (85) for Heat Magazine (77) on 30 Apr 2009

Entertaining enough to keep Fox and Marvel's planned series of X-Men spinoff movies on track, but not quite the socko start to the summer season…

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By Jonathon Valenzuela (2) for Time Out Sydney (74) on 30 Apr 2009

Newbies to the series will perhaps enjoy the relentless explosions and CGI action of X-Men Origins: Wolverine but as a prequel to the X-Men…

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By Jason Di Rosso (253) for MovieTime, ABC Radio National (314) on 30 Apr 2009

There are few complex character interactions, no one to really push or pull Jackman into subtler shades…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 30 Apr 2009

Ultimately, what Wolverine says about the evolution of a franchise film character is actually less interesting than what it says about the…

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By Simon Thompson (92) for Heart 106.2 (44) on 30 Apr 2009

The action is fast and furious, the script is impressive for this type of movie and the visual effects (apart from the odd occasion) are phenomenal…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 30 Apr 2009

It's woefully unimaginative, overdependent on CGI effects and wantonly wasteful of its big budget and talented cast…

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By David Edwards (979) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 30 Apr 2009

Even if you're not a superhero fan, Wolverine won't disappoint since, alongside some gloriously over-the-top action scenes, it's an intelligent,…

Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Brandon Fibbs (448) for Colorado Springs Gazette (140) on 30 Apr 2009

So unoriginal and underwhelming as to be totally forgettable, the deeply dissatisfying and unnecessarily silly X-Men Origins: Wolverine is…

Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 30 Apr 2009

The whole thing would collapse under the weight of its own pretensions were it not for the considerable acting prowess of Jackman and Schreiber,…

Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 30 Apr 2009

Apart from some genuine archetypes and myths that find their way into the mix, the film's overflow of half-baked ideas adds up to a cluttered,…

Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 30 Apr 2009

Here are two full hours of origin, with all the dull exposition and half-baked dialogue that implies…

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