Origins Wolverine
Make no mistake, Origins Wolverine is a bad X-Men film. It somehow manages to suck the complete fun and mystery out of Wolverine’s character by turning him into a lumberjack who falls in love with a schoolteacher. (There’s nothing wrong with romance in superhero films, but at least give the characters some actual chemistry.)
The reason why it’s not on the bottom of the list is that while it’s bad, it could’ve fallen into the category of “so bad it’s good” if it was just a lot more stupider than it already is. There’s something endearing about watching Ryan Reynolds swing fake swords around and that guy with the guns perform the world’s most unconvincing backflip while shooting bad guys. And yes, even though Wolverine’s claws are CLEARLY fake, there’s something funny about watching them cut through what’s obviously a CG ladder during the fight with Gambit, which is probably the only entertaining part of the movie without any qualifier.
Jackman, to his credit, gives a great performance alongside Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth, but you have to turn your brain and ignore how the original movie doesn’t seem to bring this up in any real capacity. Ryan Reynolds does more or less what he’s expected to do with the time he’s given, while everyone else is just bad across the board. If they were all willing to take a little bit of Jackman’s mojo, or at least try to have some fun with it like Reynolds and Will.I.Am is, this would be higher up. As it is, it’s a mediocre weekend watch that you can laugh at.
