First of all, you need to pay attention to who is writing, directing, and producing this bullshit.
It starts with the Producer. Richard Donner is the executive producer. The rest of them are superfluous. The executive producer is generally the one who provides the most money for the production of the film. He also has the most say-so when it comes to how that money is spent. This means that the film is going to be dominated by their artistic tastes. Judging from Mr. Donner's artistic tastes, it already looks grim.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001149/#producer
Next, we look at the writer. This is the guy who molds the movie and the story (or lack thereof in most x-film cases). For this movie, they had two writers: David Benioff and Skip Woods. Benioff wrote
Troy. So, that shows me he knows how to take a good long story and rewrite it to something shorter. Problem is,
Troy kinda sucked. It was a great action movie, but the dialogue sucked balls. Woods wrote
Swordfish and
Hitman. This shows he can write dialogue (
Swordfish) and knows how to write a semi-good hero movie (
Hitman). Problem with both of them is that they're mediocre writers at best. That's the second clue that this film isn't going to be amazing.
Last, let's look at the director: Gavin Hood. Look at
this guy's IMDB director filmography. Can anyone tell me they've actually seen any of those movies? No. Even clicking on those films I can't say they were top-grossing or critically-acclaimed films. Yes, Tsotsi won the Oscar for the best foreign language film of 2005, but since when did the Academy pick good movies? The fact that this director is only well-known in
South Africa is your final clue that
X-men Origins: Wolverine is going to be a mediocre pile of crap.
Don't even get me started on the casting directors,
cinematographer, or
production designer.
The only thing I can see that this film did right by looking at the IMDB page is that they hired Amalgamated Dynamics (Spiderman 1-3, AvP, AvP2, Evolution, and Starship Troopers) to do the special effects.
So, it's gonna look good (kinda). That's it. My bet is that you could probably turn off the sound and enjoy the visual alone and that would make it better.
I'm a pretty big x-men fan (as Tisiphone can tell you), so I'm not even gonna go into how horribly they raped Deadpool's awesomeness or that I'm sure Gambit's been either completely nerfed or overdone like Storm was in X1-3.
My opinion: this movie is only worth the bandwidth it would take to download it and (as Marquis said) it's really not worth your cash.
/rant.
