8 Reasons Wolverine Is The Most Disappointing Part Of X-Men: Apocalypse

Bryan Singer hasn't exactly been shy about wanting to correct the mistakes of the X-Men franchise; the films that were the biggest casualties of his timeline reset in Days Of Future Past were The Last Stand and Origins: Wolverine, the two he had no involvement in. In Apocalypse he advances this effort by slyly remaking them; he seeds the former with Jean Grey's Phoenix Force and actually rewrites the latter.

That's what this sequence ostensibly is: Origins again. We don't see much of it, but Singer's clearly attempting to have his own stab at the whole Weapon X stuff. And, ignoring all the others ways we've looked at how it doesn't really work, perhaps the biggest error is he kinda forgets he's already done it.

One big problem with Origins was that it was essentially expanding upon a handful of memory flashes Logan had in X-2 with a totally unengaging, impactless story - what little we got there was enough. In the scope of the X-Men franchise, that's what makes Apocalypse's Wolverine sequence so lacklustre; it's a remake of a remake and once again offers little that's genuinely fresh to the idea of Wolverine's origins. There is a neat little twist with Jean meeting Logan and giving him a memory back, but because the scene is so brief that amounts to very little.

What did you think of X-Men: Apocalypse's Wolverine sequence? Did it disappoint you too or did it live up to expectations? Join the discussion down in the comments.