7/10
Breathtaking and overwhelming prequel with unstopped action and violent confrontation among superheroes
22 June 2020
The early years of James Logan (Hugh Jackman) , and his sibling Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) , two mutant brothers , born two hundred years ago, and fighting in the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. And being set in 1845, the 1860s, the 1910s, 1944, 1973, and 1979. Subsequently , featuring the strong rivalry with his brother Victor Creed , his service in the special forces team Weapon X led by Stryker (Danny Huston) . The latter is a U.S. Colonel who recruits them and other mutants as commandos and his experimentation into the metal-lined mutant Wolverine. Then Logan quits and turns a logger, falling in love for a local teacher (Lynn Collins) .Things go wrong when Logan refuses to rejoin . When he's most vulnerable, he's most dangerous. The hero. The fugitive. The warrior. The survivor. The legend. The fight of his life will be for his own. When enemies rise... when immortality ends... the ultimate battle begins.

The story is more complex and thoughtful to follow than previous entries for newbies and takes itself seriously and displays interesting characters involving through the movie and some new mutant . Fine acting from dual starring : Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine and Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed , both of whom suffering childhood trauma and have only each other to depend on . Furthermore , appearing other superheroes as prisoners of Striker's Island as Gambit , Cyclops , Emma and Deadpool who was only going to cameo, but the role grew after Ryan Reynolds was cast , and , of course , an essential guest star : Sir Patrick Stewart as Prof. Charles Xavier to become rejuvenated thanks to digital efects by computer generator . It has great action some brief fitting humor and it also has good intrigue. The script provides a well-executed and exciting final and tied the threads were leaving along the film . Based on Chris Claremont , Frank Miller comic books strips from "Wolverine" and suspenseful and twisted screenplay by Skip Woods and David Benioff of Game of thrones . The film had started out as a prequel to X-Men (2000) , but later he decided to make it an independient Wolverine film with some strings relationed with X-Men series .The film contains an impressive, breathtaking ending battle with plenty of computer generator effects . The great duo of protagonists Hugh Kackman , Liev Schreiber are well accompanied by a nice support cast, such as the beautiful Lynn Collins , the usually villain Danny Huston , Kevin Durand , Dominic Monaghan, Taylor Kitsch , Daniel Henney , Ryan Reynolds , among others.

Thrilling and rousing musical score by Harry Gregson-Williams . Colorful as well as evocative cinematography by Donald McAlpine . The motion picture was professionally directed by Gavin Hood delivering a decent filmmaking .Overall, this has a good look, some nice action, a little bit of humor andoverwhelming final battles . Director Gavin Hood does a good job pulling it all together . Gavin was born in South Africa , he is an actor and producer, known for Tsotsi (2005), Eye in the sky (2015) and Official Secrets (2019). Rating : 7/10
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