Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Dominic Monaghan, Lynn Collins ...( see more  see more... ) , Taylor Kitsch

Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed (who will later become Sabertooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.

Directed by: Gavin Hood

Release Date: May 1, 2009

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DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009

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  • May 1, 2009
    The most entertaining & emotional of the "X-Men" film series. Thrilling, action-packed and suprisingly heartbreaking
  • January 5, 2010
    An utterly exhilarating and adrenaline-pumping edge of your seat action-packed extravaganza. It cuts through the origins of the character nicely in a well-crafted and superbly performed film. A brilliant, riveting and powerful film. A tremendous, spectacular and absolutely unforg...( read more)ettable adventure that is a true classic in it's own right. It's loaded with pulse-pounding thrills and heart-pounding action from start to finish. It's much more darker and in depth film than any of the X-Men movies combined, a real hard-driven character study. An edgy and furiously entertaining thrill-ride. An explosive good time. An extraordinary and very energetic all-star cast. Hugh Jackman is outstanding, once again delivering a riveting performance as the lead of Wolverine and not failing at bringing out the best of what we expect. Liev Schreiber is fantastic, knocking this role out of the park. Danny Huston is brilliant. Ryan Reynolds is terrific, giving off plenty of cool and humor. Taylor Kitsch is impressive and compelling. An excellent film on every level. A first-class, stunning, eye-popping and rip-roaring action entertainment. It's smart, funny, mind-blowing and packed with explosive non-stop action. Director, Gavin Hood crafts a magnificent film that digs deep into the background of the story and the characters and brings out solid entertainment as strong as the material.
  • December 25, 2009
    I'm both of fan of Movies and the comics. I love movies more and I am able 2 judge separately. So now knowing that I can say that as a movie, it was ok. As hard as Hugh Jackman tries, He just doesnt understand how 2 play Wolverine, his acting as wolverine was the best in X2 but t...( read more)his one is a very close 2nd but honestly this is his 4th time now and still he falls so flat. He's not Wolverine and never will be cuz he just doesnt get how 2 play the role. Liev Schreiber as Sabertooth was a happy surprise. He played da shit outta his character, i thought it was amazing. He stole the film 4 me, he was perfect. Ryan Reynolds as Wade was nothing but fucking great 2 see and now i know its potential and i hope we get 2 see more of him in the future. Gambit was fuckin shit!!! not only was he dumb 4 the story but the guy that played him fuckin sucked!
    The story started off strong and very good but fucked up large from the weapon X scene and so on. after this scene they ruined the fuckin movie, it turned in 2 garbage and not bcuz im a fan of the character am i saying this, The movie simply turned in2 some of the dumbest shit ive ever seen. The CGI was fucking Horrible and very cheap!. The action was good but some parts made me actually yell out holy shit datz fuckin ridiculous!!!! specifically a part between gambit and wolverine. just horrible. ANyways the Score of the movie was good, directing was nothing special pretty lousy i tought actually, Bad storytelling , shitty acting with the exception of few. Overall good start, bad finish, good action, ok action. I think it wudda been better if it was R rated and taken seriously. Some pretty funny jokes though. So like i said its an Ok movie. I really can't believe how dedicated these ppl were 2 this movie and fucked up such great material they had 2 work with, still i guess they can be proud of an entertaining movie. 2 stars go just 2 Liev and Ryan 4 their roles.
  • December 22, 2009
    How do you make a movie that's supposed to depict a person's history and then give us one third of the history...!?! And then badly depict that history...are you serious...?

    I'm not sure what happened here but I know it has failed...truth be told I give the movie 2 1/2 starts fo...( read more)r the mere fact that I'm a action flick person, fights and explosions are my thing, and the action sequences were pretty good and I can appreciate the cast, so I'm being a bit biased, considering how much has gone wrong here, I know, bare with me.

    1. Question...how many of us made it through the majority of our World History classes awake hmmm..? If you have then feel free to stop me if I'm wrong here but didn't Canada unofficially become a "country" in 1897, when the British and the French decided to make nice?
    Now if I'm right then how does the story begin 22 years earlier (1845)?
    2. Moving on...so the blood brothers James Howlett and Victor Creed grow up a bit and decide to enlist in the American Army...spending a century's worth of time installed in the same unit...sooo...nobody noticed this, nobody at all...?
    3. So now the death of a superior officer has earned the brothers a bloody execution after which a nice man comes along a recruits them for his band of mutant misfits to go on a mission...not that anybody in the unit notices that they're still alive after a firing squad, what a relief.
    4. The band doesn't work out, so, fast forward 6 years later to a cabin on top of a mounting side, back in Canada where James, who now goes by the name Logan, is living a nice quiet life with his lady friend Kayla. Not that we know WHY he wants to be called Logan in the first place.
    5. Major William Stryker (the nice man) has returned to ask for his help in tracking down his brother who's gone rogue and is now killing the other members of the team, Logan refuses, Victor pops up and kills Logan's lady, Logan vows revenge and goes after his brother...big fight ensues Logan gets brutally beaten, but of course walks away unscathed, big surprise! I mean we were really worried there, and all the other times the 2 fought...really...we were.
    6. Enter Stryker again who offers Logan a way to beat Victor by undergoing an operation to reinforce his skeleton with adamantium, a virtually indestructible metal. Once the procedure is complete, Stryker orders Logan's memory erased, but Logan overhears and fights his way out...past no one. This whole big to do about "The Island" and he runs out the front door! What did they think he'd think twice when he saw the beautiful waterfall. Stryker decides in that moment to destroy Logan, you're just gonna destroy the one thing that you've devoted your life to seeing work, just like that, no second thoughts...?
    7. Fast forward to another big fight scene...with two humvees and a helicopter...oh yeah and another mutant Zero, but mostly the humvees and the helicopter.
    8. Logan locates Wraith and Dukes, two former band members who immediately address him as Logan, the must have psychic powers.
    9. Fast forward again to another scuffle between brothers, still no winner because of an interruption by Gambit, another mutant.
    10. Fast forward again to ANOTHER fight between brothers, in which case no one wins AGAIN! Because now Kayla who is now revealed as part of Strykers devious ploy, decides to remind him of his humanity. Although out of all honestly, Logan had Victor beat.
    11. Logan knocks Victor unconscious, then helps Kayla free the imprisoned mutants, who by the way are being kept in normal metal wire cages. Some of these mutants clearly having the ability to escape for themselves I guess just decided to wait to be rescued.
    12. Fast forward one more time to the biggest fight scene of them all between the brothers wolf and a newly reconstructed Deadpool. The brothers win and Victor departs, vowing to finish what they have started...which was what again...?

    So out of all this violence and heart ache and violence and chemical outbalancing and violence, what have we learnt about our beloved Wolverine?
    1. That he's had his abilities since he was a very young boy. But was he born with it, was there a baby Wolverine with claws? And if so was there a baby Victor with fangs?
    2. We know that Logan was born James Howlett, but is now just called Logan. But why?
    3. We now know how the metal claws came to be. But how does one come to terms with they're new "look" so to speak in the span of 90 seconds? Logan just realizes he's got metal claws that's pin point sharp now instead of bone and automatically he's cool with it?
    4. We know now that the infamous Sabretooth is Victor Logan's half-brother. But besides the whole right v.s wrong thing (the killing of otherwise innocent mutants) why are these two suddenly sworn enemies?
    5. We know how Logan came to loose his memory.

    Oh geez, I'm just bubbling over with sarcasm here, I've thoroughly annoyed my own self, but my annoyance started with my review. I had high expectations for this film, I had hoped to have most of my questions answered by the end of it and instead ended up with more questions than I started with.
  • November 16, 2009
    review to come
  • February 9, 2010
    i really love this movie
  • February 7, 2010
    My claws are out for hugh Jackman...Wonderful as wolverine
  • February 7, 2010
    Love the xmen movies and this was no exception
  • February 6, 2010
    One of the worst films of 2009, maybe there will be a better home video version
  • February 6, 2010
    I don't remember this one at all. Probably says something about the plot.....

Critic Reviews


May 6, 2009
Armond White, The New York Press

Each CGI set piece erases distance, space, weight, gravity and wit. It's empty, soulless action -- visual noise. full review

May 1, 2009
Bob Mondello, NPR

Those movies where people get sent to an island somewhere, then discover that everyone's a clone, or a reactor is melting down? Imagine all of that happening at once, only everybody is indestructible. full review

May 1, 2009
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Suitably filling, if not always nutritious. full review

April 30, 2009
Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com

Hugh Jackman's action-filled spinoff delivers on the brawn but not the soul of the "X-Men" franchise that spawned it. full review

April 30, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

A transparent attempt to squeeze a faltering franchise for its last drop of box-office juice. full review

April 30, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

The problem with Wolverine isn't that the mythology is detailed and potentially confusing. The bigger issue is that "Wolverine" is so uninvolving that you might not care whether you remember what happ... full review

April 30, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

A crude blunderbuss of a superhero movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine proves that the greatest supervillains confronting Marvel Comics' shape-shifters, lycanthropes and mind-readers are clumsy directors ... full review

April 30, 2009
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with its ungainly, geeky title and its relatively trim running time, helps explain just what makes this guy so intriguing and unusual. full review

April 30, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

I have been powerfully impressed by film versions of Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, Iron Man and the Iron Giant. I wouldn't even walk across the street to meet Wolverine. full review

April 29, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Jackman invests his fierce character with a cheeky attitude, clear-eyed intelligence and inherent decency, compelling viewers to care about his metamorphosis. full review

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Comments


  • katasteaua2002
    September 14, 2009
    the best movie
  • suzanandebele
    May 21, 2009
    this movie rocks, Lorgan I love u, u are the best.
    to the directors make the last X-men, I would really love to see what happens to victor.........
    Its the best!!!!!!!!!
  • cantlivewithoutnarnia92
    May 15, 2009
    What other x-men origins are they going to make? I can't wait!!!
  • mmh6
    May 15, 2009
    Tha film was awesome

    but i think this film should be the first chain of previous x-man series
  • liliecv1
    May 9, 2009
    it was good, good enough to make me wanna see x- men again.
  • mwaakwe
    May 9, 2009
    the movie was great and was lots of fun though i could actually see the ropes that were tied behind the guys as they did their stunts
    must have been a PIRATE!! OOPS...
  • MercWithTheMouth
    May 6, 2009
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  • echegeh
    May 2, 2009
    This is a good movie...a little different from the others but nontheless inriguing to find out the origins of the x men....cant wait to see the next of the x me origins especialy that of storm...
  • whighthours100
    April 27, 2009
    THANKS
  • MizasterJ
    April 17, 2009
    I read all about the Wolverine movie getting spoiled. Thats really no surprise to me. It happened way back in 2003 with the 1st Hulk film, although they found the guy who uploaded it and busted him, he went to jail I beleive.

    You would think that people would get the message, but this happens all the time, and I dont see any signs of it stopping. Now some guy at fox new supposedly lost his job cause he watched an unlicensed release and wrote a review.

    The Internet community is just going to pirate whatever they can get their hands on, so if its leaked its fair game to them. How did it get leaked? who knows but are the viewers really responsible? No. Therefore should not be held liable, as long as there not distributing.

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  • Which of the following was never a member of James Logan/Wolverine/ Hugh Jackman's team under William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine?  Answer »
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine- The film's opening scene is set in which year?  Answer »
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine- Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) is about to rape a woman during the Vietnam War and is stopped by a superior officer who he proceeds to kill. My question is, what did the officer say before Victor dispatches him?  Answer »
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine- After James (Hugh Jackman) and Victor (Liev Schreiber) are asked about their "execution" by firing squad, how does James respond?   Answer »

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