Codename Wolverine

This one is going on the shelf next the The Wolverine. What an improvement! So many dumb moments, forced connections and disrespect to characters are removed and it now works with other X-Men movies. This is now actually a pretty good movie and way truer to the source material.

There were a couple of abrupt audio changes but nothing that took me out of the experience. The bit at the beginning with Professor X was also a little jarring and not all that necessary but, again, didn't diminish enjoyment. Also wish it was HD but visually it's good enough and the 5.1 audio makes the quality just fine and totally watchable. That said, without a doubt Codename: Wolverine the best way to watch this movie.

Truly enjoyable. Thank you Havok1977!

This edit aims to remove a lot of the weak parts of X-Men Origins Wolverine to create a stronger film.

A/V: quality Decent A/V, looks like a DVD source but not bad.
A/V editing: Average editing. Noticed quite a few of the cuts, sudden changes in scenes or audio fading in and out too quickly.

Story: The narrative is clear and easy to follow. But the plot is still poor (this is not the fault of the editor). Most of the cuts made were to remove particularly weak points of the film, however I disagreed with removing Kayla/Silverfox's backstory as it made her character feel hollow and undeveloped. I did like the removal of Logan and Creed sharing a father, I felt that plot point was silly. I thought removing Silverfox's final act of revenge against Stryker was a mistake.

Unfortunately, this film is unsalvageable and does not work well as a feature length film, although havok's effort is certainly commendable.

A worthwhile attempt to wrest something of value from this ultimately pointless Wolverine prequel, but the editing is unfortunately still quite choppy, and the attempts to bring the already dubious continuity of the FoX-Men films closer to the comics fixes nothing and succeeds only in muddying the character connections present in the film. Deadpool and Sabretooth in particular are diminished even further in this edition. While some of the cheesiness is reduced, that was most of what I was able to enjoy about the original cut, so all that's left is the superhero equivalent of a Nickelback music video. Boring, leaden, and even Canada doesn't want to be associated with it.