Saturday, 2 May 2009

At the movies -Wolverine or also know as x men 4 original lets see how far we can strech this out 4, wolverine and about 100 other people

Whilst my posts usually take a few days to write out due to the massive, massive thought that each one takes up, no not really I just can't think of things to write, will attempt to jot this one down in the time it takes for me to cook two slices of bacon.
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So thanks to Orange Wednesday went to see Wolverine or X men 4 as it was titled in the listings (surely it should be X men 0? or is that too much thought?)

Probably the biggest MEH film so far this year.

Not exactly awful (close though) but pretty far from good, I'll have to mention bits of the film so if you haven't seen it beware spoilers although to be fair you can mostly work out everything that's going to happen within the first 15 minutes and most of that is rather dull.

So bacon is cooking, stomach is rumbling lets look at a few things shall we.

Well for a start there's the fact that movie should just be titled "wolverine yells at the sky a lot" as that seems to happen every five minutes.

oh Remember the trailer where Logan fights in the big wars, yeah that was cool wasn't it? well tough that's the intro, Logans time with general stryker's team lasts about five minutes during which time we never actually see their relationship develop its literally just Logan turns up, rides in an escalator goes to Africa and that's it, in fact no ones relationship gets any real time at all characters pop up on screen say their line and leave; speaking of characters you might ask yourself how many are needed in a film? Well this movie answers that question as theres waaay too many, for example pity poor Ryan Reynolds who seems perfectly cast as the fast mouthed Wade Wilson a character who apparently, after protests from fans, the director promised to feature more heavily in the movie but still manages to get what seems 5 minutes in the beginning to say what seems 3 lines fly around (a power that it seems all mutants now posses) stab some people and then disappear (more or less) while Will I am who should have had waaay less time gets to stand around for an eternity attempting to make a cowboy hat look cool.

Meanwhile theres tons of scenes that don't seem to have any real point, Gambit gets to run after some kids (and speaking of which did the budget run out at the end so that they could just employ 20 kids rather than any adults? from the way the Island was built up it was supposed to hold hundreds instead it was reveled to be a rather old factory containing what seemed 20 kids and no guards as of course who needs guards in a secret military base holding what are allegedly dangerous people) anyway where was I oh yeah Gambit gets to run after some kids then promptly run back for no actual real reason apart from to get him out the way. We have a pointless end scene with Styker and the MP's (oh and the best line comes from Styker when questioned about his adamantium bullitts replies "no but they might wipe his memory!" followed presumably by bwahahahahahahahaha but you'll probably have to watch the film to make sense of that.

Oh bacon cooking err lets see oh yes hey old couple who live out in the wilderness, who happen to stumble on a naked wolverine hiding in their barn why not pass on some words of wisdom whilst conveniently giving Logan your (presumably deceased) sons clothes which just so happen to fit exactly and within five minutes of knowing him give him a fully fulled pristine motor bike hey thanks!
Well at least we got to finally find out how Logan got that nice jacket.

On the bright side apart from a complete lack of motivation apart from just being a bad guy Liev Schreiber is enjoyably snarly, Hugh Jackman sports the best buffon haircut....ever but over all the movie just comes across as a bit well MEH!

right bacon time for me

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Too bad. I'll probably still see it, regardless of your 'meh' review. Sounds like a case of 'well-established franchise will make a ton of cash, so let's make a sloppy movie'.