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Wolverine: Origins

Don't want to admit this, but the leaked copy of the new Wolverine film is pretty sweet. The affects haven't caught up to the finished product, but the overall zeal is there.

Again Hugh Jackman does an amazing job as Wolverine.

For those that don't really know the plot, here goes. Wolverine, aka Logan, is doing his everyday thing growing up when he unintentionally kills someone.

He and his brother end up running from their problems for what seems like a century and later join an elite task force consisting of other mutants to do a "Blackwater" type job on mutants.

But Logan grows a conscience in the process and leaves the task force. But not before the leader of the group, William Stryker, can get his hands on a rare and precious (completely fake) metal, adamantium, to facilitate the creation of Weapon XI.

Logan's bones are fused with adamantium and presto - Wolverine, or Weapon X if you're a purest.

There's some steps I've missed in between, but I don't want to drag down the film with my regurgitation of the entire plot.

But now there's a problem. Sabertooth is out killing mutants rogue-style and Wolverine gets in the way. And so the rivalry is born between Sabertooth and Wolverine. Wolverine can do things Sabertooth can't, and Sabertooth takes it personal.

Liev Schreiber, playing Sabertooth, does a pretty good job. He tries to do a little accent thing here and there that didn't really do it for me though. Granted I watched the film on a two and a half inch screen, so don't really take my word for it.

People who watch this film are either comic book nerds/fandimaniacs, or are groups (notice how I didn't single out ladies in this category) with crushes on Jackman.

I don't blame either. Go see the film when it opens. I think it'll be in theaters in a couple of months.

Posted by Clayton Hein at 11:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)