Apparently disatisfied with the overly exhaustive treatment of Wolverine in the last three X-Men movies, Wolverine presents the title character’s origin story, with Hugh Jackman returning to don the adamantium claws.
Much like the most recent X-Men Movie (Last Stand), Wolverine manages to be more whimsical and entertaining than Bryan Singer’s oppressively boring X-Men films, but is nonetheless mind-numbingly dumb. The plot contorts itself into a nonsensical tangle of “twists,” ornamented with a relentless parade of unecessary cameos, each desperately praying for their own spin-off.
More fundamentally, it makes little sense to give Wolverine (a character conceived to be shrouded in mystery) an exhaustive origin story. The result is a somewhat incompetent execution of a movie that no one really asked for. Skippable unless you really must turn your brain off for an evening.