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X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens today and the general consensus among movie critics is that it’s an awful movie. Over on the movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the “tomatometer” rating for the movie is only 37%. When only the so-called “top critics” are counted, the ratings drops all the way down to 18%.
Ouch.
I’m not sure why the world needed yet another X-Men movie, let alone one featuring the Wolverine character. By my count this is the fourth movie based on the X-Men characters. What more was there to say? When I’ve watched trailers for the movie, it looked like every other X-Men movie that I have already seen.
And what’s with the PG-13 rating? If you are making a movie based on a character that has razor sharp metal claws that pop out of his wrists, and it receives anything less then a R rating from the MPAA, you are doing it wrong. This movie should be rated a hard R for violence. Remember the chainsaw-in-the- shower scene from Scarface? How about the final 60 minutes of Hostel?
That’s the level of graphic violence that should be in a Wolverine movie. Anything less than that and you are honest being honest with the character.
