X-Men Origins: Wolverine Final Trailer

Posted by on March 5th, 2009   Filed under: Action, Books/Comics, Trailers

I had a good time with the first three X-Men movies (yes, even the third one) and I believe that in theory, a Wolverine solo flick has a lot of potential. He is one of the more interesting characters in the X-Men universe, and Hugh Jackman has always done a great job of bringing him to life on the big screen. Still, for some reason, I’m not feeling a ton of excitement for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and I get the impression that no one else is either.

The final trailer has just arrived online, and being that this is Fox’s final chance to really wow us and convince us that this is a must-see summer blockbuster, you’d think they would have pulled out all the stops. Unfortunately, it feels like there is very little in this trailer that we haven’t seen before. Maybe it’s a problem that we’re only getting a Wolverine origin story now after seeing him in three other films. Origins often seem redundant in comic book movies because we just want to get to the part of the story we haven’t heard before, but in this case it’s even worse. I also wonder if Liev Schreiber’s Sabretooth is just not a big enough villain to carry an entire movie. I’m not really getting a sense of any major conflict. The one good thing is that they’re doing their best to make it feel like an actual X-Men movie by including some quick shots of other characters like Cyclops and Gambit, but if Gambit is the only reason to see this movie, I think they’re in trouble. Check out the trailer below and see what you think. X-Men Origins: Wolverine hits theatres on May 1st.



  • Never really liked any of the X-Men movies and this looks worse than those. Not looking forward to this at all. I might rent it if it’s alright.

  • swarez

    This didn’t turn you on Sean? It sure did for me. That looked pretty damn sweet. Now lets hope the film itself delivers.

  • Den

    Looking forward to the movie, but the Cloverfield roar they kept using whenever Wolvie would do something feral got a little distracting.

  • Maybe I’m in the minority on not being impressed with this trailer. I’m still hoping it will be good.

  • swarez

    I’m a sucker for cool explosions and bad ass fights so shit blowing up good usually does the trick for me when it comes to trailers. And I’m not overly critical when it comes to the movies themselves, just need to be entertaining.

  • Matt

    Oh, man. I feel like this is gonna blow chunks. Hard. Speaking of Worst Comic Book Movies ever, this definitely feels like it’s going to belong in the same category that Electra does, when it comes out. And I really liked the first two X-Men movies.

  • The scene with the Helicopter just looks so lame, it remninds me of “Die Hard 4.0″ kinda. Any movie where the heroes singlehandedly takes down choppers or planes just screams bad.

  • swarez

    So you have no problems with heroes shooting lasers out of their eyes, fly, lift giant islands out of the oceans, flip over 18 wheel trucks?

  • I think you are taking this the wrong way. It is not that I have a problem with it being unreal or something, it is more the fact that it looks stupid.

  • I liked the first two X-Mens enough, but I was in high school and I watched and enjoyed just about everything then. Didn’t care much for the third one, I half-watched it on an overseas flight somewhere. I wasn’t paying any attention to this flick until a few weeks ago. Since the Oscars, I can’t get enough of Hugh Jackman. :D

  • swarez

    “I think you are taking this the wrong way. It is not that I have a problem with it being unreal or something, it is more the fact that it looks stupid.”

    Well criticizing a fantasy film with superheroes for looking stupid is sort of missing the point isn’t it.

  • swarez

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  • Why so swarez? If flipping over 18 wheel trucks looks awesome, then it’s all good, but if landing on top of a chopper looks stupid, then it takes me out of the movie. Being an action film, fantasy film or whatever makes no difference, it’s how the effects, well, effect me, that matters.

  • swarez

    I just don’t understand that way of thinking, if a superhero lands on a helicopter it takes you out of the movie but him sprouting metal claws from his hands, aside from being immortal and people shooting lasers out of their eyes does not do that.
    Doesn’t make any sense.

  • I actually kinda agree with Kasper here. Somehow that helicopter scene did seem to be a little too over the top for me. Wolverine is a character who has an element of believability to him, as opposed to say, Superman, and that just seemed a bit goofy. But that’s not to say I will write off the movie just because of that scene.

  • Ed

    To all who’re just SO unimpressed ALREADY over this…I’m really having trouble imagining what you’re expecting to see.
    Its just unbelieveable the amount of whining criticism thats going on here before the movie’s even been released!
    Remember, plenty of people were POSITIVE that Heath Ledger was going to suck before TDK came out.

    YEA its a helicopter! Should Wolverine sit and chat with the guys after him? Draw his claws for the 500th time?

    The negative posts here just serve as glaring proof that you guys can complain about absolutely anything.
    Quit MOANING.

    Btw, people are VERY excited for this movie.

  • Wow, take it personally much Ed???

    The movie looks awfull. More wire-fighting and extremely obvious CGI. Wolverine is tough, not Superman, he can’t fly and he cant stick out one hand while driving a motorcycle 80 m.p.h. and cut through the entire length of a tank and not fall off his motorcycle.

    Gambit looks like a flamboyant homosexual, not a bad-ass thief/ladies-man. Deadpool is supposed to be hideoulsy disfigured psychopath, not a boy-band reject with cute spikey blond hair in a red tank-top.

    Even worse, the movies super-villian antagonist (Sabertooth) is essentially the same character as the protaginist (Wolverine) except instead of claws he has long fingernails… The grand-finale will consist of the two of them punching each other and growling a whole bunch with Wolverine “winning” then turning around and ::poof:: Sabertooth disapears… Wow. How dramatic.