Revenge soon grips Logan when his love is taken away, but Tsotsi director Gavin Hood seems bored by the sibling rivalry; even the Frankensteinian weaponizing of a human body feels rushed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2018

Wolverine starts with a roar before sliding into a chaotic, preachy mess.

| Nov 6, 2018

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

You won't be upset you saw it, you'll have some fun, you'll see Wolvie beat the living hell out of a helicopter.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 7, 2010

Is there anything to enjoy in X-men Origins: Wolverine? Sure. Some of the fights are cool. But for every solid moment there is an equivalent of pure suck.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 11, 2009

So ... bland.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 7, 2009

Did the plot points stick in my head five minutes after leaving the theater? Not so much ... but I know I was having fun while watching.

| May 6, 2009

Alas, there's nothing quite memorable here: much of the combat is just a whirl of movement photographed up close. As the X-Men series has progressed, the startling poetic extravagances of the first film have given way to flesh-pounding clumsiness.

| May 4, 2009

How does all this play out for those of us -- i.e., me -- who have not been staying up nights fretting over the origins of the X-Men and Women? The answer is: Fairly well.

| Original Score: B | May 4, 2009

Shorthand and heavy-handed. Like Wolverine himself, it operates without clarity or rules.

| Original Score: C | May 1, 2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not that bad. But it's also not good. It's one of the most balanced-out, down-the-middle, apathetic shrugs of a summer tentpole that I've seen in the many years that I've been following the summer blockbuster.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 1, 2009

Suitably filling, if not always nutritious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 1, 2009

How do you make mutants dull?

| Original Score: C- | May 1, 2009

Summer's first tent-pole flick is a dulled outing. It may assuage the die-hard fan, but it's doggedly routine.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 1, 2009

What a wasteful shame.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | May 1, 2009

Wolverine is supposedly a comic book movie, and yet it violates one of the tenets of comic books: It doesn't delineate and particularize Wolverine's special powers.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 1, 2009

Jackman's committed performance keeps the movie on track, though Huston and Schreiber are strictly on autopilot.

| May 1, 2009

Wolverine doesn't rise above the level of familiar competence.

| May 1, 2009

We get something more akin to Jim Henson's Mutant Babies, with some Highlander touches thrown in for good measure.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2009