Wolverine Movie Review

I went and saw the new Wolverine Flick this weekend. And....it didn't suck.

Which is good, because I went into it thinking that it would suck. And suck hard.

But, it wasn't too bad. It was watchable.

The storyline might ring familiar since...I dunno, it has been done a billion and a half times:

"Hero is good at war and soldier-like things, but walks away from the violence to settle down and live happily ever after with the woman he loves. But alas! His past catches up with him, someone attacks, kills, and/or kidnaps the woman he loves, and now our hero has to do battle with the forces of evil to save/rescue/avenge her!"

I dunno. I might have seen this plot before. (see: every Arnold Schwarzeneger, Jean-Claude Van Damm, Steven Segal, and/or Chuck Norris movie ever made. Except Kindergarten Cop...wtf was up with that movie anyway?)

That aside, I didn't go to the theater for amazing plot elements that shocked and surprised me. The plot, while stale, executed well enough on the well established action-genre formula. The acting was decent, the action was okay. Nothing to write home about, but nothing that looked particularly stupid or ill-conceived.

The thing that I hated about the movie though is that all the good parts were in the trailer, or I had already heard about them. Wouldn't it have been cool to not know Gambit was in the movie and see him throw the cards at Logan for the first time in that New Orleans tavern on the big screen? (side note: Cameo in that scene by Daniel Negreanu! This was not in the trailer! Doubt anybody who isn't a WPT geek knows who it is though.)

Because that scene was spoiled by the trailers, I saw it and was disappointed that there wasn't more Gambit throughout the movie. Literally, he didn't throw cards again...just what he did in the trailer. Had that scene not been in the trailer, I'd have been all blown away and walked out of the movie in super geek-happiness that they included a small role for Gambit. Alas, I just walked out disappointed. Way to setup my expectations and fail me, movie promoters.

I guess the way they do trailers gets butts in the seats, but I wish they wouldn't give away the whole fucking movie all the time.

I give this movie a 5/10. Not really worth a Theater visit, but doesn't make me want to cut myself.