10 Movie Mysteries That Should NEVER Have Been Answered

Readers of the X-Men comics will be familiar with the Weapon X story but not all mortals were familiar with Wolverine until 2000's X-Men. Smartly placing Logan at the centre of the film, his amnesiac loner makes for compelling viewing. The question of his mysterious past not only spurs him on but also drives the narrative of the film - it's the question that's compelling, not the answer.

The nightmares that Logan suffers, the guilt and rage that drive him are credible plot devices for the audience and made for great cinema. X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a credible attempt to give us some answers but as David Lynch understood, it's the question that is compelling - we may think we want closure, but the mystery is the addictive aspect to the story.

Logan agrees to the adamantium procedure to give him the ability to fight Sabretooth, not because he was, as we were led to believe, an inherently bad person. After his escape from Alkali Lake, Logan is perfectly lucid, stopping at a farm house to use the toilet and get a clean shirt, not stricken with amnesia and without agency, like Bourne, for example. It's only at the end of the film that a well-placed bullet robs him of his identity, not the horrific effects of the procedure as non-comic book viewers were led to believe.