X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Last night was one of my rare trips to the moving picture house to see 'Wolverine', that most violent of X-Men in a prequel to the X-Men trilogy. It's been out for a week or two so I'm assuming all the fans will already have seen it.

The film opens with Wolverine and his half-brother running their way through war after war from the 1850s to Vietnam, not ageing and shrugging off injuries and, at one point, a firing squad. Then joining a government-funded super-group of mercenaries at which point Wolvie and his brother go their separate ways... and five years later meet up again to fight to the death while saving hoards of mutant kids from being lab-rats. Our hero saves the day, of course.

The film introduces us to more super-powered mutants in under two hours than you could dream of. I'm not quite sure why it needed so many mutants in it but it pleased the fanboy in me as much as it irritated. The plot was a bit thin but who cares when it's non-stop action all the way? The trick is not to think about it too much and just let it wash over you.