X-Men Origins - Wolverine

X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009)

  • 37% of critics liked it
    (250 reviews)

  • 72% of users liked it
    (495,899 ratings)

The gruff, adamantium-clawed Marvel superhero Wolverine strikes out on his own in this X-Men spin-off starring series regular Hugh Jackman. The story gets under way as the boy who will become Wolverine makes a shocking discovery about his family bloodline, and gains a brother in the process. Flash… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.
Directed By
Gavin Hood
Written By
David Benioff, Skip Woods
Genres
Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
May 1, 2009 Wide
On DVD
Sep 15, 2009
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Laremy Legel, Film.com

    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.

  • Sara Vilkomerson, New York Observer

    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.

  • Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies

    Wolverine's backstory was good stuff -- but after the falling out with Schreiber, the story loses its center and it gets wobbly.

  • Ben Lyons, At the Movies

    I was definitely disappointed.

  • David Denby, New Yorker

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John M


    Wolverine, Deadpool, lots of action . .i enjoyed this from start to finish. Lots of more hard core comic people may have not liked it. I on the other hand not being one of them loved it.

  • Sophie B


    A really good cast and interesting story made it worth watching and I definitely feel like I know the characters more (coming from a non comic reader or X-men fan) so for me it was good and kept my attentions but I don't know how a hard core fan would feel. It did get a bit… More

  • Candy R


    Movie focuses on Logan and how he becomes Wolverine.

  • Scott G


    I just didn't seem to click onto the film, all-be-it there is some darn good action and some good choices in the line of casting but, I didn't seem to warm to it. Although I didn't fully follow the film, there is some credit where it's due, just struggling to put… More

  • Alexander D


    The first prequel to the original three X-MEN movies isn't notably terrible, but it's just not all that great. THE LAST STAND was a considerable fall from X-MEN and X-MEN UNITED, but ORIGINS: WOLVERINE cannot even be truly called an X-MEN film. It can, though, be called an… More

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