Logan isn't the only piece of this puzzle.

Date: Friday 29th March
Film: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber and Danny Huston
Running Time: 01 hour, 47 minutes
Rating: 5/10

My love for superheroes is well known to all who've met me, and the X-Men franchise is no exception to this rule. Which makes it surprising that I hadn't got round to watching this origin tale before (even more surprising when you learn I have it in my X-Men box set), but I had little desire to watch a film that focused on the creation of one hero. I felt that there was enough covered in the X-Men stories to leave Wolverine with that air of mystery and I just wasn't all that inclined to learn much more about him. Plus, I'd heard it was terrible.

The Luce was over for the weekend, I gave her free reign of the DVD racks and it was decided that I should, finally, get round to watching this one. I went in with little knowledge, the film hadn't interested me and, for all my love of comic book movies, I'm not an expert on the background material. I was genuinely surprised with the faces that popped up. If I'd have known going in that Liev Schreiber, Taylor Kitsch and Ryan Reynolds all had roles (albeit varying in length) it would have been watched a lot sooner.

Unfortunately, for all the great talent that appeared, there was still a role for Will.I.Am, a sign, for me, that this film wasn't going to be great.

The problem I had with Wolverine was that the characters that brought the most to the film were incredibly underdeveloped (particularly Deadpool and Gambit). There was a lot of focus on things that weren't all that relevant to the plot and, overall, I was left feeling a little deflated by the film.

As origin films go, I'd much rather watch First Class a few more times.

Challenge day: 184
Challenge time: 11 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes
Challenge film total: 145