Wolverine's back-story is an awesome one, but for this movie I have to agree with many of the critics. They kind of skimped on the emotional depth, in favour of coming up with a series of contrived excuses for awesome fight scenes in outlandish locations.

The movie also throws into question some of what was 'established' in the earlier films - like Logan's memory loss. The other films are fairly clear that this happened (SPOILER)when he had the adamantium grafts, which made perfect sense. I get the feeling they only altered this for the new movie so that (SPOILER)he'd have his ultimate augmentation for more screen-time.

Nice to see some cameos from both new and familiar mutants, and much greater expansion on Stryker's past projects.
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With Ryan Reynold's playing a central character in the movie... I come out with mixed feelings. I'm fine with an actor playing a major character in a Marvel translation and a DC translation, but two characters in a Marvel translation? C'mon.
I was hoping they might've kept Tyler Mane on, from the first movie. It would've helped to link the two stories together a little more, I reckon. As it is, it's virtually impossible to see the two as the same character, especially since the first film's Sabretooth is an anonymous, virtually mute, and totally disposable henchman with no evident connection to Wolverine at all.

Personally, I would've preferred to see a greater arc of Wolverine's life. How mutants were perceived in those different eras, how he coped with seeing friends and family age and disappear, while he always survives no matter what.

While I enjoyed the movie, I also largely agree with its pretty poor ranking on Rotten Tomatoes. Knowing about the poor reviews helped to lower my expectations somewhat.