Wolverine

Opening Day - Wolverine! This is one I've been waiting for and I'm left with mixed feelings about it. Visually, action scenes, fight scenes - all those were excellent and really interesting to watch. Storyline is questionable, I thought the pacing was off, and it filled in space at times that made it feel like they took half of a movie and stretched it out and let it coast along because they know that there's another movie on the way that will provide the second half. That's the overall impression I was left with, anyway.

As far as interesting characters - Marvel always gave us those and they're fun to watch come to life. That's the whole interest point for these comic book movies - we want to watch that guy laser everything around him with his eyes or that guy freeze the whole city or that guy leap through the air - we read it in the comics and we want to see it happen. Isn't it interesting that most of the time the special effects don't live up to our imagination?

This movie goes back to Logan's childhood and shows us a bit about him. Not nearly enough if you ask me. The childhood scenes actually brought up more questions than they answered. I think with every Wolverine movie, they're making him nicer and kinder. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's a good thing if the guy with the huge handknives is nice and kind.

Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber do very good jobs as Logan and Victor (Wolverine and Sabertooth) but the scenes were stolen by Ryan Reynolds ('Adventureland') as 'Deadpool'. Makes you wonder why he's wasting his time in movies like Adventureland and Harold & Kumar when he's just amazing in this kind of flick. I would have preferred it if he was given a much larger part - it would have made this movie so much more interesting and lively.

There are a few funny spots - very few. There *is* a nice love interest so it makes for a good girlfriend movie ;)

The fighting was good, popcorn was good. This one gets a '3'.