X-Men Origins: Wolverine starts as a young Logan is lying in bed with what looks to be the common cold, and his best friend victor is with him and his dad and there is a loud knocking at the door. Its victors father , Logan’s dad goes down to see what is going on and there is gunfire, horrified in seeing his father killer he for the first time morphs in mutant and kills victors father who in his last words tells young Logan that he is his real father. So the half brothers Logan / Wolverine ( Hugh Jackman) and Victor Creed / Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) run into the woods to escape the local villagers who have discovered the body and chasing them. Then we cut to a series of scenes of the bothers fighting together in battles, the American civil war, world war one, World War 2 and the Vietnam War and the story is upon us, in full swing.

We also get to find out how Wolverine was immersed into a tank within which Wolverine has his bones coated in indestructible metal adamantium , which include the claws that extrude from above his knuckles. The back story and the Chemistry between Jackman and Schreiber is very apparent and really works well, the acting is overall very well done and there are no slow spots in the storyline. There is a scene were Jackman as Wolverine takes out troops in hummer and a helicopter that are after him, the special effects and the music and cinematography is so well done, really world class stuff. I was never a big fan of the x-men series of film, I thought that characters and their mutant powers were kind of invented as they went along and didn’t follow any set of rules, their reality was not defined so there for kind of unbelievable ( even for a fantasy ). This film was more down to earth as to what was and was not possible and there for much more entertaining...

The back story was what really pulled me in, the story of the two brothers and their lives and the over mutants was very well scripted and Gavin Hood's direction was very well done, he is going to be a force to reckon with in the future. I’ve seen the other film over the years and this one is by far the best. There is enough of a story to keep you going and amazing special effects and a well polished finished product that I really enjoyed. I would hope that if this film is a huge success more X-Men Origins films are released..

“This the best X-men movie yet”

Directed by Gavin Hood Produced by Hugh Jackman, Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter, Avi Arad
Written by David Benioff
Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography Donald McAlpine
Editing by Nicolas De Toth
Distributed by 20th Century Fox

movie dvd and blu-ray reviews by film critic @ brickthrewglass.com Matt Willey 2009