X-Men Origins: Wolverine Blu-Ray Review
SoHood.com Reviewed by: Robert Green
Movie Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Extras Rating: 5 out of 5
Overview: Leading up to the events of X-Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine tells the story of Wolverine’s epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed and the ominous Weapon X program. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new, including surprise appearances by several legends of the X-Men universe whose appearances in the film have long been anticipated.
There will be spoilers now, so if you don’t want the ending spoiled, you’d do well to stop reading. I wasn’t expecting too much, but I knew what to expect: Wolverine being a bad ass and destroying a lot of things. But the way Wolverine’s amnesia was handled. Stryker shoots him in the head with adamantium bullets. That’s it. After all the events in the movie, he gets shot in the head and heals everything but his memories. It’s a shame, since that could have been handled so much better. His various adaptations have all had better ways of handling his amnesia, whether it be via mind-wiping or his own healing factor. Instead, he gets shot in the head, then gets up ten minutes later with no recollection of everything. Of course, Victor Creed aka Sabertooth still remembers it all, which makes the first X-Men movie make a little less sense.
Alright, the film does fill in many gaps in Wolverine’s past and does it with tons of action and visual effects. It introduces some new characters (Emma Frost the White Queen, Gambit, etc.) that I am sure will allow for greater flexibility in stories in future movies. Wolverine’s past is not a happy one so don’t expect a shiny fairy tail story where the good guys don’t die.
I would say it is way better than Hulk, probably better than X-Men III, not nearly as good as Iron Man, and not as good as X-Men I & II.
The specific aspects of the Blu-ray:
The X-Men Origins: Wolverine Blu-ray Disc allows movie fans to enjoy the film in high definition format, delivering far more crisply detailed images than standard DVDs. The sounds of The X-Men Origins: Wolverine Blu-Ray Disc is extraordinary.
The Audio and visuals of The X-Men Origins: Wolverine: The audio was perfect. The visuals I loved looked good on my 46′ TV. Blu-Ray Extras: There’s a feature titled BD-Live: Live Lookup powered by IMDb is excellent where you can look up each of the characters from the film. I really enjoyed this feature it gives the viewer/fan more of an opportunity to find out more about the film. There’s a few scenes cut out from the film that I think could’ve made a little difference with the whole Wolverine’s amnesia thing but instead the director chose to go with his version of the final print. There’s one scene cut out where Blob is about to be killed by Victor Creed, which made sense to cut out but overall the features on this blu-ray disc were great and worth watching.
Blu-Ray Extras The roots of Wolverine: A conversation with Stan Lee and Len Wein featurette; Wolverine Unleashed: The complete origins featurette; Weapon X mutant files; The Thrill of the Chase: The helicopter sequence; Ultimate X-Mode bonus view: C Connect, the director’s chair, pre-visualizing Wolverine and X facts trivia track; Deleted & alternate scenes with commentary by Gavin Hood; Fox Movie Channel presents world premiere; Audio commentary by director Gavin Hood; Audio commentary by producers Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter; BD-Live: Live Lookup powered by IMDb
