--- title: "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" year: 2009 kind: "film" canonical: "https://film.one/film/x-men-origins-wolverine" fi1m_id: "x-men-origins-wolverine" imdb_id: "tt0458525" tmdb_id: 2080 wikidata_id: "Q217552" fi1m_score: 45 critics_score: 45 critics_reviews: 20 published: "2026-10-05T11:31:37.074558+00:00" updated: "2026-10-05T11:31:37.665346+00:00" region: "BR" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Directed by Gavin Hood · 1h 47m · ClassInd 14 · Adventure, Action, Science Fiction ## Identity X-Men Origins: Wolverine - **Canonical:** https://film.one/film/x-men-origins-wolverine - **Type:** Film - **Fi1m ID:** x-men-origins-wolverine - **IMDb ID:** tt0458525 - **TMDB ID:** 2080 - **Wikidata ID:** Q217552 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2080, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217552 **Fi1m score: 45** · Critics 45 from 20 reviews *In a sentence:* Two immortal brothers walk out of a century of wars without a scratch; the computer-drawn claws do not survive their first close-up > Gavin Hood’s prequel opens with two brothers fighting through a century of wars under the credits, then spends the rest of its 107 minutes explaining a man better left unexplained. Jackman and Schreiber hold their end; the effects and the script let go of theirs. ## Synopsis In a nineteenth-century Canadian house, a sickly boy discovers that bone claws come out of his hands when he is angry, and runs into the night with his half-brother Victor. Under the opening credits Logan (Hugh Jackman) and Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) fight through a century of American wars together, neither of them able to die and Victor liking it more each time. Stryker (Danny Huston) recruits them into a squad of mutants that includes the motor-mouthed Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) and the marksman Agent Zero (Daniel Henney). Sickened by what the squad does on a mission in Africa, Logan walks out. Years later he is a logger in the Canadian Rockies, living with the schoolteacher Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins), when Stryker turns up to warn him that someone is killing the old team. ## Review Wolverine arrived in the first [*X-Men*](https://film.one/film/x-men) film as a man with knives in his hands and no idea where they came from, and that was most of his appeal. *X-Men Origins: Wolverine* exists to answer the question, and David Benioff and Skip Woods’s script answers it the way a biography would: a childhood, a brother, a war record, a woman, a betrayal. Gavin Hood directs at a run, and the whole thing is over in 107 minutes. The opening is the best stretch, and most of the reviews so far agree on that. A boy discovers that bone claws come out of his hands when he is angry, and he and his half-brother run into the night. Under the credits they fight through a century of American wars, trench after beach after jungle, Victor enjoying it more each time, and Harry Gregson-Williams keeps the orchestra low and lets the pictures do the work. We sat up. Then Stryker (Danny Huston) collects them into a squad with Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) talking through every fight, Agent Zero (Daniel Henney) shooting, and John Wraith (will.i.am), Fred Dukes (Kevin Durand) and Bradley (Dominic Monaghan) filling out the plane, and for a quarter of an hour the film looks like a nasty little men-on-a-mission picture. Reynolds is funny. Then Logan walks away from it, and the film goes to the mountains with him. Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber are the reason to keep watching. Jackman has played this part before and knows exactly how much growl it can take; here he is given grief as well as rage, and he carries both without fuss. Schreiber’s Victor Creed is better still, a man who runs on all fours and loves it, and who smiles at his brother across a field of bodies as if to say, admit it, you like this too. Their scenes together have a weight nothing else in the film has. Huston plays Stryker soft and reasonable, a bureaucrat with a clipboard and a scalpel, and he is quietly the most frightening thing on screen. The script is the problem, from the moment Logan takes up logging in the Rockies with Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins), a schoolteacher who tells a fable about the moon as if she expects to be quoted. The lines are the kind actors deliver while looking at the floor. Every new mutant is a cameo with a power attached: Taylor Kitsch’s Remy LeBeau gets a card trick, a stick and one fight; Tim Pocock’s Scott Summers gets a pair of sunglasses and a corridor. The film keeps introducing people as if introductions were a plot. By the midpoint we had stopped learning names. Donald McAlpine shoots the mountains and the lumber yard clean and bright, with real cold in the air, and the one set piece that works, Logan on a motorbike against a helicopter on a country road, is staged wide enough to follow. The rest of the fighting is cut by Megan Gill and Nicolas De Toth into pieces too short to read, with the camera so close that two sets of claws become a grey smear. The claws themselves are the film’s most public failure. They are drawn by computer, they catch no light, and when Logan studies them in a bathroom mirror they look like something from a cereal packet. We laughed, and it was not the laugh the film wanted. Barry Robison’s laboratory for Stryker, all concrete and water tanks, is solid and anonymous, and Gregson-Williams, so patient over the credits, settles into the same brass hit for every entrance. The second half takes turns we will not describe, except to say that the film gets louder as it gets emptier and that the last reel stacks revelation on revelation until none of them lands. Somewhere in there we were bored, and then we were annoyed, because the opening had promised a film about two brothers who could not die and could not stop, and that film never gets made. Bryan Singer’s first two *X-Men* films were about people afraid of being found out. This one is about getting Logan from one fight to the next. If you want Wolverine, the earlier films have him, and they knew enough not to explain him. If you want this one, see it for Schreiber and the first fifteen minutes, and do not expect the 12A to let anyone bleed. *Fi1m score 45, published 5 October 2026.* ## What the critics say Most critics think little of it: ten of twenty reviews come down against the film, with seven more sitting on the fence. What praise there is clusters around the cast rather than the film around them. Liev Schreiber’s Sabretooth is the performance most often singled out, with Danny Huston and Ryan Reynolds also drawing notice, and Hugh Jackman is generally praised. Several reviews enjoy the opening section and credits before the plot takes over. The complaints are about everything else: a muddled, redundant story, perfunctory action, and effects that look cheaper than they should. The New Yorker objects to the close-up digital fights, Little White Lies to the claws, and The Hollywood Reporter to editing that sacrifices character for speed. The spread is wide, from outright pans to a few who find it efficient, brainless fun, among them the Los Angeles Times and The Wrap, and none of the admirers pretends it matches the earlier X-Men films. ## Straight answers **Is X-Men Origins: Wolverine worth watching?** *X-Men Origins: Wolverine* is worth watching only for Liev Schreiber and its first fifteen minutes, and we scored it 45. Hugh Jackman and Schreiber hold the film together as brothers who cannot die, but the script piles on mutant cameos, the fights are cut into a grey smear, and the computer-drawn claws fail their first close-up. The earlier *X-Men* films have Wolverine and knew not to explain him. **How long is X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and what is it rated?** *X-Men Origins: Wolverine* runs 1h 47m and is rated 14 by the ClassInd in Brazil. It is an adventure and action film. **Where can I watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine in Brazil?** *X-Men Origins: Wolverine* is streaming on Disney+ in Brazil. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service. **How violent or frightening is X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and is it suitable for children?** *X-Men Origins: Wolverine* is a 12A, and the certificate keeps it bloodless even with claws in nearly every scene. There is a century of wars under the opening credits, a soft-spoken villain with a scalpel, and constant fighting cut too fast to be gruesome. Older children used to action films will be fine; the squeamish have little to flinch at. **How does X-Men Origins: Wolverine compare to Logan?** [*Logan*](https://film.one/film/logan) is the better film by some distance, the tired, violent, grown-up Wolverine story that *X-Men Origins: Wolverine* keeps promising and never makes. The prequel is a brisk, bloodless 12A built on cameos and introductions; *Logan* is a drama about ageing and care that earns its feeling, even when the violence labours the point. Watch the prequel for Schreiber, and *Logan* for Jackman. **What should I watch after X-Men Origins: Wolverine?** After *X-Men Origins: Wolverine*, try [*Logan*](https://film.one/film/logan) (2017, Fi1m 83): Jackman finally given the tired, violent, grown-up Wolverine film this one keeps promising. Then [*X2*](https://film.one/film/x2) (2003, Fi1m 80): The same man’s past hinted at in ten minutes, which was the right amount; and [*First Blood*](https://film.one/film/first-blood) (1982, Fi1m 74): A damaged veteran, the men who made him and a forest, told with discipline. ### Reviews we read (20) - **Los Angeles Times**, Kenny Turan (70/100, inferred): Turan finds the film satisfying and efficient, delivering solid comic-book entertainment without reaching the heights of Nolan’s Batman films. He praises its brisk, thorough handling of Wolverine’s backstory and its action-focused satisfactions. [Read](https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/hero-complex-blog/story/2009-04-30/turan-wolverine-is-somewhere-between-daredevil-and-dark-knight) - **Screen Daily**, Fionnuala Halligan (64/100, inferred): The page identifies this as a review, but the paywall prevents access to the critic’s verdict. No specific praise or complaint is visible in the available text. [Read](https://www.screendaily.com/x-men-origins-wolverine/5000617.article) - **The New York Times** (64/100, inferred): The page could not be retrieved, so the critic’s verdict is unavailable. No specific praise or complaint can be confirmed from the accessible text. [Read](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/movies/01wolv.html) - **Little White Lies**, Limara Salt (5/3/3): Salt finds the spin-off entertaining but ultimately underwhelming, arguing it turns Wolverine into a conventional Hollywood hero. She particularly criticizes the conspicuously poor-looking CGI, especially Wolverine’s claws. [Read](https://lwlies.com/reviews/x-men-origins-wolverine) - **Total Film**, Jonathan Dean (3/5): Dean finds the film entertaining but less magical than its predecessors. He praises the action set-pieces, especially the motorbike-versus-helicopter fight, while criticizing the story as an unnecessary retread. [Read](https://www.gamesradar.com/x-men-origins-wolverine-review/) - **Radio Times**, Jamie Russell (2/5): The review gives the film a two-star rating, suggesting an overall negative verdict. It praises the enjoyable opening section and Hugh Jackman’s portrayal of Wolverine. [Read](https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-0r0gm8/xmen-origins-wolverine/) - **Time Out**, Tom Huddleston (2/5): The review finds the prequel disappointing. It singles out the film’s troubled, lengthy production as a concern. [Read](https://www.timeout.com/movies/x-men-origins-wolverine-3) - **Slant Magazine**, Nick Schager (1.5/4): Schager finds the film a bland, indecisive disappointment with perfunctory action and little imagination. He singles out Danny Huston’s menacing performance as a bright spot amid the film’s weak characterization and clichés. [Read](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/x-men-origins-wolverine/) - **The AV Club**, Keith Phipps (D): Phipps dismisses the film as a badly told, uninvolving origin story. He praises Liev Schreiber’s menacing performance but faults the action, supporting characters, and increasingly ludicrous plot. [Read](https://www.avclub.com/x-men-origins-wolverine-1798206172) - **Empire**, Nick de Semlyen (30/100, inferred): The critic finds the film a glum, muddled disappointment rather than a disaster. He praises Liev Schreiber’s feral Sabretooth and the opening credits, while faulting the plot holes and lack of fun. [Read](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/x-men-origins-wolverine-review/) - **Variety**, Justin Chang (30/100, inferred): Chang finds the prequel noisy, dull-witted, and less compelling than the earlier X-Men films, though it still surpasses The Last Stand. He praises the effective action in places but criticizes its incoherent execution and the film’s lack of imagination. [Read](https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/x-men-origins-wolverine-1200474340/) - **The New Yorker**, David Denby (25/100, inferred): Denby finds the film noisy, incoherent, and largely forgettable. He particularly criticizes its close-up, digitally enhanced fights as clumsy and lacking suspense. [Read](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/11/hard-knocks) - **The Guardian**, Andrew Pulver (20/100, inferred): Pulver finds the film redundant and largely unentertaining outside its hardcore fanbase. He singles out its clunky characterization and tired narrative, while noting that the opening sequence offers a promising start. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/may/01/x-men-origins-wolverine-review) - **The Hollywood Reporter**, Kirk Honeycutt (15/100, inferred): The critic finds the film a badly fizzled, unimaginative entry in the franchise. He singles out its excessive effects and breakneck editing for sacrificing character and coherence. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/x-men-origins-wolverine-83193/) - **Eye for Film**, Maria Realf (70/100, inferred): The critic finds it enjoyable, eye-catching popcorn entertainment, despite some minor gripes. She praises Hugh Jackman’s performance and the slick action, but laments the lack of a large-scale mutant battle. [Read](https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/x-men-origins-wolverine-film-review-by-maria-realf) - **The Wrap** (70/100, inferred): The critic finds the film clunky and campy but ultimately enjoyable as brainless fun. They especially praise its colorful explosions and wall-to-wall mutants. [Read](https://www.thewrap.com/real-truth-about-wolverines-origins-2804/) - **/Film**, Brendon Connelly (6.5/10): Connelly recommends the film, but says its ambition and intelligence are undermined by a collapsing final act. He praises Hood’s crisp visual compositions and the organically staged claw poses. [Read](https://www.slashfilm.com/503484/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/) - **Den of Geek**, Steven Hurst (3/5): Hurst considers it a solid enough summer film, but says it is too tame and uneven to deliver the darker, more adult experience promised. He praises Ryan Reynolds as a standout, while criticizing the misplaced comedy and lack of grit. [Read](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/x-men-origins-wolverine-review/) - **Digital Spy**, Stella Papamichael (55/100, inferred): Papamichael finds the film entertaining but says its emotional tragedy never lands as forcefully as its action. She praises Liev Schreiber’s searing performance and highlights Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Kitsch among the standout turns. [Read](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a154261/x-men-origins-wolverine-review/) - **Paste**, Jeffrey Bloomer (15/100, inferred): Bloomer pans the film as a generic, listless spectacle. He gives brief praise to Jackman’s occasional memorable line, but criticizes the muddled story and poorly assembled action. [Read](https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/x-men/x-men-origins-wolverine-1) ## Details - **Director:** Gavin Hood - **Director:** Gavin Hood - **Screenplay:** David Benioff, Skip Woods - **Cinematography:** Donald McAlpine - **Editor:** Megan Gill, Nicolas De Toth - **Music:** Harry Gregson-Williams - **Production design:** Barry Robison - **Producer:** Hugh Jackman, Lauren Shuler Donner, John Palermo - **Cast:** Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine; Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed; Danny Huston as Stryker; Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox; Kevin Durand as Fred Dukes; Dominic Monaghan as Bradley; Taylor Kitsch as Remy LeBeau; Daniel Henney as Agent Zero - **Runtime:** 1h 47m - **Certificate (ClassInd):** 14 - **Release (Brazil):** 30 April 2009 - **Genres:** Adventure, Action, Science Fiction - **Budget:** $150 million - **Box office:** $373 million - **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQ-gD4UCmI ## Where to watch in Brazil - Disney+: streaming, hd *Checked 2026-10-05.* Also available in: AE, AR, AT, AU, BE, BG, BR, CA, CH, CL, CO, CZ, DE, DK, EC, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HK, HR, HU, IE, IL, IN, IS, IT, JP, KR, LT, MX, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PE, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SG, SI, TR, UA, US, ZA. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## Awards - Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie 2010: Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie (nominated) ## If you liked this - *Logan* (2017), Fi1m 83: Jackman finally given the tired, violent, grown-up Wolverine film this one keeps promising. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/logan.md) - *X2* (2003), Fi1m 80: The same man’s past hinted at in ten minutes, which was the right amount. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/x2.md) - *First Blood* (1982), Fi1m 74: A damaged veteran, the men who made him and a forest, told with discipline. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/first-blood.md) - *The Bourne Identity* (2002), Fi1m 83: A killer with no memory, and a film that knows the mystery is the point. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/the-bourne-identity.md) - *Point Blank* (1967), Fi1m 84: Lee Marvin walks back through his own betrayal; brutal, strange and decades ahead. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/point-blank.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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