Rate-a-Trailer: Can Jackman's Wolverine Cut It?

What do you think of the new trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine?

By Erik Pedersen Mar 06, 2009 7:10 PMTags

Hugh Jackman's a favorite of movie fans, and The X-Men's Wolverine is beloved by comic-book nerds. So what could be better than the two of them together again?

Well, this trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, for one. Maybe it's just us, but any movie that features the hero clinging to the top of a moving vehicle (even if it is a helicopter this time) is highly suspect. That move was old when Starsky & Hutch were doing it.

We have other issues. For starters, throwing playing cards isn't a cool power, it's 52 pickup. And the trailer's ratio of Ryan Reynolds to Liev Schreiber is way out of whack. Then all that dream-sequence-looking stuff—Civil War Wolverine and so on—seems silly out of context. We could go on.

In short, this looks bad. We want it to be good. What do you think?