there was some great potential here, but unfortunately, as with most big summer movies, they have to appeal to the lowest common denominator. apparently that common denominator is 'explosions are cool!' the story revolves around how wolverine and his brother sabertooth got to be who they are today. there are many showdowns between the two of them. but with all the showdowns, it raised a big question: how many times can two people, who are apparently indestructible, run at each other with growling faces before its no longer interesting? the answer: one time. unfortunately, it happens about six times in this movie. the brother stuff is good, but then they go off topic and it just becomes a movie about explosions. the first half of the movie is actually quite interesting and rather compelling, but they gloss over all the good stuff in about the first 10 minutes! this is an origin story, so why not really dig into the characters early life? nope, we just get brief glimpses of the two of them in the civil war, world war two, vietnam, etc. they could have just explored those times and it would have been a great movie! there is so much potential, but it falls flat! instead they seem to have to take five or ten minutes to introduce a dozen other characters so as to prepare them each for their own spin off movie. deadpool and gambit get that treatment, merely introduced so as to prepare them for their own movie. deadpool could be good (ok, only because its ryan reynolds), but the guy they got to play gambit was terrible! i was embarrassed for him.over all, it was a good first half, but then all the good stuff they had built up is squandered during the last 45 minutes.
ps. seriously one of the worst love stories ever! she was brainwashing you to love her so they could set you up for joining the bad guys? why would you even care about her after that?!?
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