Blargh! So I was completely underwhelmed. I know it’s based on a comic book but I still expect films, regardless of the source material, to have some depth amongst all the packaging. Even if they’re only hidden depths! This was nothing but surface and caricature and wasn’t even very shiny surface and caricature. The green screen effects were pretty crap too. Have these people not watched the LotR trilogy? You’d have thought this was 1959 not 2009 based on the really obvious back projection going on. Plus, plus, *tears out hair* there were scenes shot with green screen where all they needed was to take the actors outside to a suitable location and film. Argh!
There were two bright spots in all this dreck. Liev Schreiber was appropriately gruff and growly and abundantly take homeable as Sabretooth. Dominic Monaghan also performed with way more depth than clearly the director expected which is why, I assume, there’s almost nothing of him on screen.
PS: Could have done with more naked HJ. That would have gone along way to making me a slightly less grumpy viewer.
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