Every Wolverine Movie Performance Ranked Worst To Best

8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins was a noble venture. The intention was to take a more singular look at some of the most iconic mutants, exploring their backstory in greater detail and examining what made them the characters later seen in the X-Men series. Sadly, this attempt was born and died with a single film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Origins is by far the worst iteration of Wolverine depicted on-screen. For all of Hugh Jackman's usual badassery there are scenes of cheesy melodrama. Nobody wants to see Wolverine cradle a dead body and scream "Nooooooooooooooooo!" into a rising camera. That's not to say Wovlerine shouldn't show emotion, but it shouldn't be so awfully ham-fisted.

The main problem with Origins is that Wolverine never really emerges as a singular character. We see him as a kid, as a soldier in multiple wars, as a lumberjack and then as a renegade mutant. His arc is never coherent, and that just isn't satisfying.