And like I said, Hugh Jackman sells it. This may be his fourth time out as Wolvie, but he refuses to phone it in, delivering as tough and endearing a performance as ever. The guy is a born movie star. When he squares off with Liev Schreiber, the two actors ratchet the film to a level of intensity it otherwise wouldn't have achieved without them. But because the movie is so involved/distracted with its chronology and not-so-subtle allusions to the past X-Men films, I started thinking that if they're following the comics, Schreiber's character is supposed to be Sabretooth, who previously popped up in the first movie as played by Tyler Mane. That he's played by a different, and vastly superior, performer here doesn't bother me. What does bother me is that in the first film Sabretooth is a guttural, almost subhuman henchman of Magneto's who is in no way similar to the Sabretooth here. This franchise has become so convoluted that it's starting to have its own alternate realities, and when it gets that complicated in matters this frivolous, it's a lot less fun.
In that respect, at least, it's just like the comics.
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