Hollywood superhero hit ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ directed by Gavin Hood based on the Marvel Comics fictional character Wolverine is now being screened at Liberty cinema, Colombo.
Starring Hugh Jackman in the title character, the action adventure tells the story of Wolverine’s epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed, and the ominous Weapon X program..
James Logan, aka Wolverine, and his brother Victor Creed (who will later become Sabretooth) run away together as children in the mid-1850’s after Logan kills their biological father who had murdered Logan’s adoptive father. After serving together in many wars, they are recruited by William Stryker to serve in a special unit made up of mutants.
When Stryker orders the destruction of a village that refuses to reveal the location of a ‘precious metal’ Stryker yearns for (hmm...I wonder what that could be?), Logan quits the unit and goes off to live a life of peace and isolation as a lumberjack in the Canadian Rockies. He resides in a cabin, high in the gorgeous mountains, with his girlfriend (later to be known as Silver Fox) who helps calm him though the nightmares from the past.
Six years pass for the both of them until Stryker shows up and asks Logan to come back into the fold as part of a new Weapon X project. Logan refuses but Creed shows up and murders Logan’s girlfriend, leaving him wanting revenge against his brother. Logan accepts Stryker’s offer to be infused with adamantium so that he may be indestructible and then follow through with his revenge, but is quickly double crossed by Stryker who, after the process is a success, gives the order to wipe his memories. Logan, who is still in the tank where the adamantium was fused to his skeleton, breaks out and escapes. Retreating to a nearby farmhouse, Logan befriends an elderly couple who help him get back on his feet. We also get to see where a few symbolic props of Wolverine originate. Unfortunately, as is usually the way in Logan’s chaotic life, this respite is quickly brought to an end: Agent Zero and crew have been sent by Stryker to kill him. After one of the best action sequences in the film comes to an end, Logan sets out to find Victor once again.
After reuniting with a few members of his old team, he finds out that Stryker and Creed are actually working together to kidnap mutants and keep them in confinement, working on a new project--Weapon XI--and that only one person knows where their new base of operations is. Remy LeBeau, aka Gambit, is the only mutant to escape this place; Logan, along with John Wraith, goes searching for him in New Orleans.
The film stars Hugh Jackman as James Howlett, Scott Adkins as Wade Wilson, Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed, Dominic Monaghan as Barnell Bohusk, Lynn Colfins as Kayla, Danny Huston as William Stryker, Daniel Henney as David North and Taylor Kitsch as Remy LeBeau.
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