X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Two-Disc Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Action and more action. Acting and scenery are absolutely great.

This one is my favorite of all the X-Men movies.

X-Men Origins: WolverineFor those who waited for this prequel to X-Men, it was worth every moment, every day of anticipation. For those who have never seen X-Men, well, this is a great place to start. In the grand tradition of the comic book, this edition features the origins of The Wolverine, the mutant who is at the core of the storyline. I do not like to get into plot or storyline too heavily. I despise trailers with their 'let's show them the entire movie in split-second sequencing'. It's designed to monetize, not for the viewer. You'll not get that in my reviews either.There have been some excellent renditions of the `Batman', `Spider-man', and `Watchmen' series' in recent years. With just the right mix of CGI, storytelling, and acting, we have reached new levels in the way comic books are depicted on film. Director, Gavin Hood, has taken these tools and designed an outstanding issue in this, the third installment of the series. The bar now rests at a higher level for those who follow. I enjoy director's who compete with their peers. When they get it right, amazing results are often achieved.Like the original comic book series, a tale can be told with the flourish of great graphics, coupled with minimal, but carefully selected text, to achieve a creative and comprehensible story line. The great artist, Jack Kirby (Captain America, Fantastic Four), was the initial artist in the X-Men series. While not the creator of the `Wolverine' character, I believe he would have approved of the camera work in `Wolverine'. There is great stop action framing, perhaps homage to King Kirby. I also love the angles used in shooting. In many cases, the distant view of the entire scene is shown, much like in the comic books.Hugh Jackman stars as `Logan/Wolverine'. He is perfect in every frame. The effort that Jackman has put into this portrayal is clear. He has turned himself into a physical specimen rarely seen in a starring role since Bruce Lee in `Enter The Dragon'. Add to this his powerful ability to project dialogue in any manner and its clear Jackman is far beyond the coveted `triple threat' that most entertainers aspire to be. His turns onstage as `Curly' in Oklahoma, `Peter Allen' on Broadway, and film roles in `Van Helsing' and ` The Prestige' solidify that fact. For good measure, he was the song and dance, comedic host of the 2008 Academy Awards show.There is excellent supporting talent at every turn in this production. Liev Schreiber is particularly nasty as the `hell bent' Victor Creed. Musician, Will.i.Am,Kevin Durand and Taylor Kitsch all lend nice supporting roles as well. I particularly liked Lynn Collins, as Logan's love interest Kayla.Dominic Monaghan (Lost) lit the way as mutant `Bolt'. He was joined by and `A-Team' group of mutants that put on an excellent display of their superpowers. Rounding out the team was Tim Pocock, Ryan Reynolds (as Hal Jordan/The Green Lantern' in production), and Daniel Henney. Their scenes epitomize what many comic readers love to see in the pages, action packed, and jaw dropping abilities. They did not disappoint here.TechnicalThe Blu-ray edition is vibrant and exceptional at 1924 X 1080p, 120Hz. The sound is fine on all levels at 5.1, dts-HD. The special features are many. They include the customary commentary with the director (Gavin Hood), a great feature with Stan Lee and former writer Len Wein. The back and forth banter is pure gold for fans. So many tidbits of fascinating information are thrown at you, seemingly as afterthoughts. Also included are `Ultimate X-mode' (ability to sit in the director's chair, pre-visualize Wolverine and X-Facts), a helicopter scene, insight segment, and an alternate ending. The language options are English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. The subtitles available are English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Cantonese.

The more important matter of me buying this movie was to get the digital version which is not available in VUDU and/or Amazon Prime. I am very happy finally I was able to obtain the digital version of this movie were the original Deadpool version was created. I love this movie, nice to watch the dynamics between brothers. I had the dvd and happy to obtain now the bluray. I do not care about the critics in general...this is a most to have X-men movie to complete the collection. To bad no more origins movies were produced in this way.

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This origins story suffers from some really inconsistent writing. The movie is about Wolverine/Hugh Jackman and Sabretooth/Live Schreiber growing up together like brothers and then becoming enemies. That was due to their involvement with Colonel Stryker /Danny Huston who tried to use the two for his own ends. Schreiber and Huston are good as the villains, especially the former. Schreiber gets a blood thirsty look on his face whenever he’s going to kill someone and he does a lot of that while Huston is the ultimate manipulator. There are an array of other mutants involved including Gambit/Taylor Kitsch, and you get to see Wolverine get his adamantium skeleton. On the other hand a lot of the action scenes are just badly done party due to choreography but also due to the limitations of the special effects of the time. There’s also the ultimate mutant hybrid at the end which is just dumb. It’s still worthwhile to watch but it could’ve been so much better.

And that "Bryan Singers" vision just wasn't that great.At first, the idea of a spin-off origin story of Wolverine sounded stupid. Why did we need to hear more about Wolverine then we did in X2. Wasn't killing Stryker and learning of those origins enough?No, it definitely wasn't. There was much to learn about Wolverine's very long past, and I say long because somehow they get a hell of a lot of material done in a 1 hour and 47 minutes. From the awesome credits scenes with him and Sabertooth (needed an origin story as well)in various wars, it becomes obvious that a great movie has been made.From the introduction of Deadpool (gets the coolest scenes in the movie) the death of a love of Wolverine's, to his involvement in the "Weapon X" program, the movie moves from one to thing to another very smoothly.From great action scenes (Wolverine being shot at on a motorcyle after being admanatium is in him being the best) and some really sad moments when various characters are killed, I completly forgot why I ever cared about "Bryan's Singer" ovveratted vision.I would rate this either the best or 2nd best X-Men movie, only possibly 2nd to X3. I know what most people of think of X3, so an explanation is needed for this belief.X-Men was a good movie, but it was obvious that the budget wasn't high enough and just didn't allow for enough explosive action in a franchise that is half about the awesome powers in fight scenes. X-Men 2 got that budget and while having a great story wasted money on a dragged on ending scene (breaking facility=boring) and a lack of anything for Colossus to do. X-Men: The Last Stand (X3) was not dragged on in any way, and while it did insert way too many characters (wasted Colossus and side characters as well), gave Storm more screen time (give her a spin-off for god sakes) and fufilled a excellent storyline involving the pheonix.Yes, Deadpool was a little off in Wolverine. But it was meant to be his origin story as well, wasn't it? Yes. I imagine his spin-off will show us the true Deadpool. And yes Gambit was randomly inserted to please no one. But other characters like Silver Fox, The Blob, and the guy Will.I.AM played (forgot his name) were handled perfectly, which is less than I say for the limited screen time of Storm in any X-Men movie.The next time around, I would like to see no random characters that sacrifice story being inserted. But the action must be kept up and the story must as well. If this is done, the next X-Men movie, whether it be Deadpool, X-Men; First Class, Magneto, or Wolverine 2, could easily be the best.Oh, and if X4 is ever made, I want to see Angel as a main character doing a lot of flying around, Roque realizing her true powers, Professor X-s new body, and Apocalypse causing humans and mutants to team up to fight him.

I really enjoy xmen

お馴染みのＸメンですが、お馴染みの作品の前日譚が描かれてます。なるほどこの話から繋がって来てるんだと、ちょっと感動しました。悲しい恋愛劇もありました。たくさんDVDが出回っているようで、安く買えました。

X-MEN ORIGINS - WOLVERINE ist der nunmehr vierte Film der stetig wachsenden Mutantensaga, die mit X-MEN im Jahr 2000 ihren Anfang nahm, und für eine fulminante Renaissance der totgeglaubten Comic-Verfilmungen sorgte.X-MEN verband gekonnt coole Comic-Action mit glaubhaften Charakteren und einer Geschichte, die nicht nur auf Action abziehlte, sondern durchaus moralischen und ethischen Zündstoff bot. Filme wie die SPIDERMAN Trilogie oder die neue BATMAN Reihe wären ohne die X-MEN vermutlich nicht entstanden.Über die Jahre (und Filme) gelang es den Verantwortlichen der X-MEN Saga dieses hohe, anspruchsvolle Niveau zu halten. So auch im jüngsten Werk, das jetzt auf DVD und BluRay erschienen ist.X-MEN ORIGINS - WOLVERINE erzählt die Vorgeschichte zum ersten X-MEN Film und der Hauptteil spielt ca. 20 Jahre vor der Handlung der Trilogie. Die Geschichte handelt von Liebe, Tod und Rache. Somit ist der Tonus wesentlich ernster als in der Trilogie, und der Film um einiges düsterer.Die Produzenten haben den Film im Vorfeld mit RAMBO verglichen, und stellenweise trifft diese Assoziation sehr zu.Die Geschichte lebt von ihren Charakteren, allen voran natürlich Titelheld Wolverine, der einmal mehr von Hugh Jackman erstklassig gemimt wird.Nicht minder beeindruckend ist Liev Schreibers Darstellung des Victor Creed, Wolverines Bruder, der dem Charakter glaubhaft brutale bis monströse Züge verlieht, gleichzeitig aber eine Anziehungskraft, der der Zuschauer sich kaum entziehen kann.Die Präsenz der beiden Brüder bestimmt den Film. Durch diesen Plot rückt der Handlungsrahmen und Toleranz und Akzeptanz von "anderen" Menschen, der der zentrale Punkt der Trilogie gewesen ist, etwas in den Hintergrund.Gavin Hood ist es gelungen einen beeindruckenden Action-Thriller im Retro-Look zu drehen. Jeder Szene des Films sieht und fühlt man die späten 70iger deutlich an. Die Geschichte ist spannened. Ruhige Passagen, wechseln mit atemberaubenden, perfekt inszinierten Actionszenen, die ihresgleichen suchen; dennoch verkommen dabei die Charaktere nie zu Statisten.Eine besondere Erwähnung soll noch dem Soundtrack gelten. Harry Gregson-Williams gelang es einen erstklassigen Score zu verfassen, der von Anfang an fesselt. Allein die Opening-Credits sind visuell und vor allem auditorisch ein Hochgenuss. Ein Soundtracktipp für ihre Sammlung.Die Bluray kommt mit gestochen scharfen Bild daher, das sich von den anderen X-Men Filmen leicht abhebt. Der Sound liegt in 5.2 DTS vor (im Englischen sogar 5.1 DTS HD). Mit einer ordentlichen Anlage krachen die Actionsequenzen erstklassig im 3D Klang. Vor allem Szenen wie die Helicopter Sequenz und der Tower-Fight werden zum cineastischen Hochgenuss.Die Specials runden den positiven Gesamteindruck rund ab. Es gibt Charakterprofile zu den verschiedenen Mutanten, einen Entstehungshintergrundreport zum Film, einige Szenenanalysen, sowie diverse Interviews mit Cast, Crew und den geistigen Vätern Wolverines.Zwei verschiedene Audiokommentare und Backgroundinfos, die sich über BD-live während des Films hinzuschalten lassen vervollständigen die umfangreichen Specials.Desweiteren liegt dem Release eine 2te Disk vor, in der sich der Film (in deutscher Sprachfassung) als Digital Copy beiliegt, so dass man ihn bequem auf Festplatte, oder mobile Player kopieren kann.Ein spannender, temporeicher Actionfilm, der durch seine Charakterzeichnungen besticht. Eine würdige Fortsetzung der X-MEN Reihe, und definitiv eine Empfehlung für jeden Action und Comic-Fan.

X-Men Origins VF ok

Genauso wie "Weg des Kriegers" ein richtig guter Wolverine Film!

When I was unboxing this there was a sticker on the top of the Blu-ray case and that's pretty normal but when I started to peel it off, the Blu-ray started coming off with it