Shannon Nutt

There are reviewers who have seen BOTH the workprint and theatrical cut who have confrimed they are the SAME (again, minus the finished effects of the workprint):

http://www.filmthreat.com/blog/?p=1413

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit...S/news/?a=7112

There are, however, now reports that FOX has added two different Easter Egg endings during/after the credits, which may vary on different prints:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...OvG6wD97S2NL00

But there were TWO Easter Egg endings on the workprint too, so whether these are actually "new" or just another FOX falsehood (it's obvious now the theatrical is NOT 10 minutes longer - perhaps not even 10 seconds!) is yet to be seen.

Matty-O

Already dipped to 41% on RT. I'll still be taking my son to see it this weekend.

Hokeyboy

41% at RT and dropping. Yikes. Huge opening weekend, big dropoffs, are in Wolverine's future. I *still* think this movie will hit $200m domestically, but it might make half that amount in its first 3 days.

Shannon Nutt

Ebert's less than enthusiastic (but humorous) review:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...IEWS/904299978

The Bus

Just got back from seeing this. I did see a bit of the WP but left it at that since I wanted my first experience of this movie to be in the theater.

I thought the movie was lazily written, with several scenes of over-the-top clichéd dialogue, and a few instances of questionable FX that bordered on Golden Compass levels. There were (to me, at least) a lot of changes to the characters which did not seem canonical, but then again I didn't follow any of the X books past the 1990s. The action sequences didn't compare with the best of the original trilogy and at times it paled to X3.

But, overall... I was still very entertained. Very much entertained. Don't expect something on the level of Iron Man or Dark Knight. Do expect something along the lines of Incredible Hulk with much less setup and about half of the boring dialogue scenes excised.

The movie then, falls solidly into the "decent" camp of super-hero movies, along with the first X-Men, the second Fantastic Four, the aforementioned Hulk film, and the Hellboy movies (although with much less charm). It's not a classic, but IMHO it is worth your time and money.

DeanoBKN

I just came back form the midnight showing. Overall I was entertained. I'm only a casual X-Men fan so maybe i'm not the best person to give an opinion, but what can I say, I liked it.

Lara Means

Sooo what youre saying is that the FX in Wolverine is Academy Award worthy?

stingermck

I saw it last night, and was overall entertained. There are changes that will freak out the geeks (and I was hearing it last night) but it fits in well with the story that was presented in X1-3. I would have preferred more screen time for Deadpool and Gambit, but what there was, was solid.

I did have one peeve though:

Also it was good to see

As far as the multiple endings, we had

So lets say this is a hit, do you think there will be an Origins 2, maybe taking place in Japan, or a film showing Logan after X3?

Ash Ketchum

A link to The New York Times' negative review:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/movies/01wolv.html


But just as a teaser, here's a quote I like:

"But first a lot of his former mutant comrades wind up dead, a development that unhappily, if coincidentally, echoes the recent, by now almost forgotten, “Watchmen” movie."

Solid Snake

C+, loved Deadpool for what he was, hated the change to his character afterwards.

OldBoy

reviews are going through the bottom.

GCS

Just got back.

Not bad, not great either.

Worthy of a viewing ... yes

Worthy of repeat viewings ... doubtful

It is not IM or DK but I did not expect that at all. I appreciated the more serious approach they took to the character but also feel like something was just "missing". I can tell you what it was but it was missing something to move it off of the decent level to good level.

Hugh Jackman - makes a great Wolverine IMHO they just need to do more with the story. The action was ok, nothing superb.

Liev Schriber - not a big fan of his but I thought he did a damn fine job of Sabretooth and I was easily able to go along with it even w/o the long blonde hair you would expect to see on this character.

Gambit - not jumping up and down about Taylor Kitsch playing the character (and yes I like FNL) but I did enjoy what little they did with him and I thought the FX for him were very cool. I can see this getting a PG-13 spin off to get the "girls" in the theater.

Wade - Digging RR as this character I think he is dead on perfect for it and would love to see this go to the next level.

Deadpool - WTF was that? I am not sure if this follows comic book lore or not but I thought this bit was a little dumb.

Patrick Stewart - there was no way that was him. It was someone else with a shitty CGI face of Stewart. This really annoyed me. It was appropriate for this bit in the movie but damn would it have cost that much to have him show up for that 30 seconds? I mean gimme a break. It looked pretty bad to me (as did some of the other SFX - just sloppy)

Everything else was kind of a mess. Still happy to see it and hope that it makes enough bank for them to make a "deeper/better" Wolverine movie in a few years. This could be it for Wolvie though, we'll have to see.

Greg

**EDIT -- it will do at least 100m this weekend but as you guys have said drop dramatically after that. Of course my guess is that ST will obliterate that next weekend and then when Transformers 2 hits in July a new BO record will be established I am sure of it.

This will either peter out at say 160mil or slightly crack the 200 barrier and finish at say 212mil or so.

It's gonna be a long summer with Wolverine, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Transformers 2, and GI Joe. This may be the most summer movies I have seen in a long time.

stingermck

Estimates put the midnight showings at 4.4 million, not bad.

OldBoy

with the negative buzz, i am no longer going to see this in the theater. i'll just look forward to "Star Trek".

RyoHazuki

Good thing you made the review thread for a movie you won't be seeing. Maybe these threads should be started by someone who has seen the film?

OldBoy

i had always intended on seeing it and only reason i started th. and still will, just not in the theater.

stingermck

I would have missed a lot of movies I consider favorites, if I listened to reviews or WOM.

OldBoy

just to expensive nowadays to not consider previous viewers.

superdeluxe

Is this better than X3?

Arthur Dent

I fail to see how it matters... at all.

RyoHazuki

Good advice.

jjcool

This thing was terrible, in my opinion. The only positives I saw were Ryan Reynolds character, Liev Schreiber and Gambit. Other than that, it just felt forced, with shitty dialogue most of the time. It was just bad, not Watchmen bad, but worthy iof 1 star, since there was no "1/2 star" option inthe poll.

cranberries fan

No I enjoyed X3 (Better actors-Ian McKellen,Patrick Stewart) alot more than this half-cooked flim!

On side-not I am guessing that "Magneto solo-film" is now dead-in-the-water and that to bad I love to see more Ian McKellen.

BJacks

This has the worst use of CGI I've seen in a movie in a very long time. The claws look totally fake in every scene, and the green screening is really noticeable. It's like at some point their gfx dept just gave up.

BJacks

I wouldn't say that. Wolverine will probably open huge.