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Starring:
Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan,
Rya…
Review:
Summer movies whimper to a start with the wheezing
Wolverine, a transparent attempt to squeeze a faltering
franchise for its last drop of box-office juice. It should work for
at least a week, until Star Trek opens and blows it out of
the water by showing how an origin story should be done. Anyone
looking for dangerous thrills is out of luck unless they risk
federal prosecution by illegally downloading the movie on the
Web.
(Watch Peter Travers’ video review of Wolverine)
The movie itself is all PG-13 prim and proper. Look at the
drag-ass title — X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Presumably, that will separate it from the first two X-Men movies,
directed by Bryan Singer, which were pretty good, and the third
one, directed by Brett Ratner, which should have been subtitled,
X-Men:…
Rating: 2 Stars
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