The problem for me with Logan's conflicted nature was the fact that he never had a good reason to be conflicted about anything. His brother was nothing but evil from the moment the audience lays eyes on him in that Canadian bedroom, looking as if he was just waiting for the opportunity to light this fevered little pansy on fire with the nightstand lantern. Any time the film tried to build a bond between the two men (ye gods, that smokestack truce in the climax), my body rejected it like a poorly transplanted kidney.

Jackman's been fine as Wolverine, but even back to the original X-Men film, I feel like he's always playing the PG-13 version of a character whose actual spirit lives somewhere between a hard R, NC-17 and UNRATED. His basic problem that I've never seen put out there is the fact that Hugh Jackman, loveable stage angel that he is, just can't do feral mad dog. Ironically, Liev Schreiber kind of had that vibe down in a couple of scenes in this movie. Part of me will always mourn for the fact that Russell Crowe decided to turn this part down, because I think he would have made a legendary Wolverine. And he never would have settled for a script as flimsy and ramshackle as this.

Crowe as Wolverine, Angela Basset as Storm, what might of been.

The first movie would have been much too lightweight for that cast. I would have loved to see Tim Robbins as Cyclops and have him have an actual character arc but I guess you have to go with the films they give you.

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