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"Always, you're sick," says Victor reproachful glance lurking and with his younger playmates Logan, who is feverish in bed. The patzt back: "When you were as old as I do, you were constantly sick." Soon, the two boys find that it connects more than competition and camaraderie. They are brothers in blood and used in a genetic abnormality, which they superhuman strength, invulnerability and fearsome claws awards - which they immediately used to patricide.
This very beautiful, in color-held showers fairytale scene opened the latest comic book adaptation from the House of Marvel. It tells the story of the initiation very hairy, very unwirschen X-Men member Wolverine, in this opening sequence, the 1854 in the Canadian forests play a very anxious child is named Logan.
Problem Jackman
What makes a man when he discovers that he is a freak of nature is a beast of bony outgrowths from the hands go, which is solely to kill suck? One hears the older brother, is reflected in the bushes and learn the craft properly. In a time jump-assembly you can see Victor and Logan prügelnd invulnerable and shooting as mercenaries in the American Civil War, both world wars and finally, in Vietnam, where the uniformed Freaks auffliegen and a dubious Colonel asked, together with other mutants in covert special operations participate.
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"X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
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Film clip: "Be the Animal"
Film clip: "Make it all!"
Film clip: "Adjusts the outside"
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine", which this week in German and American cinema, will certainly a good chance of a box office success to be. First, because Wolverine because of his ambivalent nature, one of the most popular characters of the Marvel Universe. On the other hand, because he is now, for the fourth time by the Australian carrier and sympathy sex symbol embodies is Hugh Jackman, the irascible mutants become quite charming and very physical stresses exist.
That is but one part of the problem: For the really incredible story that screenwriter David Benioff on the basis of the comic story "Weapon X" has written an impact both as a film actor also much too smooth. The dilemma is obvious: If the story is an oppressed, abused outsider to tell who on behalf of his creatures dignity against a powerful, inhuman apparatus auflehnt? Or will you make with a fund at the teen audience successful blockbusters, eschews the substantive depths?
A good director could succeed in the synthesis. But the South African Gavin Hood shows no hands for so delicate operations. His hard Township drama "Tsotsi" was in 2005 Oscar as best foreign language film won. Since then waits on Hoods major breakthrough in Hollywood. With the politically complex, but dramaturgically misplaced torture thriller "Rendition" haute Hood ever wrong. And now he had his qualities as an action film entitled precisely because when a fan of many states already difficult undertaking to prove.
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The surface is "Wolverine" of course, a solid Hollywood product full of suspense and review values. But there are also many missed opportunities. Far too schematically, the escalation stages ignited it comes to a break between Victor and Logan, who did not state instrumentalize want. Wounded and driven by a sinister agenda that brings Victor, which is now called Sabretooth, Logan's girlfriend around, then who, blinded by anger and despair, but even for the "Weapon X" project of dubious Colonel Stryker can recruit. The predator becomes the guinea pig. But by no means tamed.
Anti-hero as a noble Wilder
Logan's skeleton with the extra-super-refined metal Adamantium, making him invincible for mutant weapon make. The procedure not only turns his hand back from jumping into bone claws razor sharp metal blades, it will be him becoming instrument that is relevant to earlier emotional ties and conflicts no longer remembers. However, before his memory erased, it can be fresh Gestählte escape and revenge campaign start.
Ironically, the anti-hero Wolverine, the Marvel for the first time in the trauma of Vietnam shaped seventies and appeared in the comics as often unpredictable, aggressive misanthrope drawn, must be as upright savior occur. This leaves a number of promising designs on the trail: The conflict, to possess superhuman powers, but they only use to kill them. The purpose and love-hate relationship between brothers who grow up without a father and a leading figure, who, at least for Victor, the Colonel takes over.
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (USA 2008)
Director: Gavin Hood
Screenplay: David Benioff
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston,
Ryan Reynolds, Dominic Monaghan, Lynn Collins, Will.i.am
Production: Marvel Enterprises, Seed Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox
Distributor: Fox
Running time: 106 minutes
Start: 30 April 2009
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And ultimately lost the motive of a paranoia-driven into the perverse state, a military Mengele tolerate in their midst, with physical or mental abilities equipped mutants for experimental purposes interned and mutilated. There is much in it in this idea of a fear-driven state, the control of gene technology, morality and ethics loses. Is played in "Wolverine" Unfortunately not.
"You wanted but the animal in me," Logan encounters once more unleashed by gefletschte teeth out. But unfortunately nobody dares the filmmaker, let alone lead actor and co-producer Hugh Jackman, the whole psycho-sociopaths and energy of the tormented creature to unleash. What remains is the cliché of noble savages, the love and the human spark of self-discovery, where other, weaker, the lure of violence succumb. The fault in this sense Sabretooth's brother, furious played by Liev Schreiber, is by far the more interesting character - even in the stocky shape he remembers much more of the ugly, the raccoon family's Wolverine in the Anglo-Saxon called Wolverine.
Perhaps Gavin Hood would have to prepare for an almost 30 year old movie to be a very similar story with less, but unevenly effective means narrates. The parallels are astonishing: there is the evil colonel, a creature out of control, and there are the abused and traumatized veteran who has his place in society does not find because it is only the perfect murder weapon has been trained.
The speech is of course from the first part of the "Rambo" series. Title hero Sylvester Stallone was needed only a brooding glance, and a knife with blood groove to the whole abyss of its primeval instincts reduced character present. Effectively sparkling Adamantium claws were just as disturbed.
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