lsanderson | X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

X-men Origins: Wolverine Hugh Jackman and his adamantium claws in this superhero film.
May 1, 2009
I, Mutant, Red in Face and Claw
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: May 1, 2009

In the crowded pantheon of comic-book-derived movie-franchise superheroes, Wolverine, as embodied by the muscular Australian song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman, always seemed kind of special. A grouchy, sensitive loner with retractable metal claws and apparently unretractable facial hair, Wolverine brooded and growled through the first three “X-Men” pictures, helping to supply them (or at least the first two) with welcome grace notes of rough humor and macho pathos. And now “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” with its ungainly, geeky title and its relatively trim (under-two-hour) running time, helps explain just what makes this guy so intriguing and unusual. More