Thoughts on "Wolverine" Con't.

Alright, more about the movie's choice of villains.  If this movie was a prequel to the X-Men movies (which by events late in the film I would say it is without a doubt a prequel to those movies and not specifically just a Wolverine origin movie) we already had Stryker as a large villain in those.  We know Stryker hates mutants, that he's a bad dude, that he would kill mutants if he could...i.e. X-Men 2: X-Men United!!!!!!  Sabertooth needed to be THE villain of the movie.  Wolverine volunteers for Weapon X, they give him adamantium, he may lose his memories in the process or whatever, just traumatized and goes AWOL.  Sabertooth wants to prove he is bigger and badder than Wolverine.  There is no need for anything else, Stryker could be used to give Wolverine his adamantium, and then pushed away to save for the X-Men movies to come, err...that came before.

But they didn't take this road.  I did enjoy seeing Logan go visit the former people who were with him in Weapon X earlier in the movie, however, I did get a little tired of seeing mutants who for the most part, served no purpose.  Will.I.Am, helped Wolverine know Sabertooth and Stryker were in cahoots; Blob, helped him know where they were; Gambit helped him get to the island, but the addition of Cyclops=pointless.  They put him in the movie because this was a "X-Men prequel" not an "origin of Wolverine" movie.  Cyclops served no purpose in this movie, only to contribute to the liberties taken with the character Deadpool.

Here's where I was entertained solely because of the quality of the final fight scene.  Wade Wilson was apparently murdered by Sabertooth (yeah if you didn't catch that don't feel bad because I barely did).  If this was so, HOW AWESOME WOULD IT BE TO SHOW SABERTOOTH (if he was the main villain) FIGHT WADE WILSON!?!?!  Yes, if you said "holy crap that would have been incredible" then you're right, it would have been.  However, we find out that he just killed him and Stryker is using his body as...ugh...Weapon XI.  Remember Cyclops not having a point in the film?  Oh wait, they used to him to amalgamate powers into "the pool"/"the mutant killer."  I guess "Deadpool" was born by Stryker giving him what I guess was adamantium too, healing factor, optic blasts (thank you Cyclops, ugh) and teleportation.

Now, this fight was utterly awesome, Sabertooth back-to-back with Wolverine, getting their asses handed to them for a while by this mindless "Deadpool" dude.  It was GREAT....except...it wasn't.  They beat "Deadpool" and Wolverine cuts his head off.  Gambit jumps back in to save Wolverine from a giant mass of collapsing rubble, Wolverine's woman (I'm not gonna mention this aspect) is hurt and uh oh, Stryker comes back and shoots him with adamantium bullets!  This is how they explained his memory wipe??  It was like they, remembering this is an "X-Men prequel" movie, said "oh crap, his memories are gone in the X-Men movies, quick, let's throw something in there to "wipe" them away!"  This was totally anti-climactic, another reason why Styker SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE MAIN VILLAIN.  Then, Gambit comes back to help Wolverine get away from the arriving authorities.  Since he has no memory he is like, who the hell are you?  But when Gambit passes his test of "what's my name" he still refuses to follow him, even though it seems pretty obvious that this guy is trying to help you.  He just says he'll find his own way, which we never see him actually leave the island...

I had problems with the writing, klunky transitions between scenes and other things.  This movie would have been amazing had Styker been secondary and Victor Creed been the undisputed bad guy of the movie.  But, with a final cameo by Professor X, this movie became more about the X-Men than the X-"man".  This should have been Wolverine and Sabertooth's heated past and rivalry.  They are both quite old, it seems convenient they met all these mutants at one time.  Sabertooth hunting down those Weapon X team members?  That would have been great!!  Not to mention him fighting Wade Wilson as a possible fight.  But the climax should have been Wolverine finally besting Sabertooth and seemingly putting him down, becoming "the best at what he does."  However, this movie was not, the best at anything.

6/10