May 1, 2009 - One year ago 20th Century Fox started off the summer blockbuster season with "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". This was the earliest opening day ever for a summer film. It starred Hugh Jackman, reprising his role as Logan the mutant with the adamantium exo-skeleton. The film told the back story of Wolverine, detailing his life, how he was created and how he came to lose his memory before the original X-Men movie.
The release of the film was marred by scandal when a complete working print of DVD quality was downloaded on the internet a month before release. It was also damaged by lackluster reviews. I found the movie unengaging and felt it had poor CGI.
It had a big opening weekend with $85 million in ticket sales, but lost 68% of it's audience the following week. It's final U.S. box office was $179 million and it failed to make the list of top ten box office champs in 2009. It ranked 13th. (even Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakel did better)
Fox blamed the leaked print and out breaks of H1N1 virus for the films bad box office performance.
A sequel is in the works. Let's hope they do a better job with other X-Men origin stories.
At The Movie House rating ** stars
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