Movie Review: ***^ X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

X-Men series 

Stryker (Danny Huston) is determined to put together the best strike tam, using mutants.  However with this, behind the scenes he is determined to harvest the powers of all the best mutants, and make a super mutant.  This is how Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is created.  However Wolverine/Logan (Hugh Jackman) is the key.  His brother Victor (Liev Schrieber) is pursuing him with this goal in mind.  Although it seems he is just wanting Logan back in the game and is willing to kill people to have his way.  In the end, he is coming for Victor and Stryker (the brains behind everything.). 

Too much violence for my tastes.

In Theaters ***^ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

In Theaters ***^ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

This is an animated feature.  We are given not only Peter Parker (Chris Pine), Spider Man (who actually dies at the beginning of the movie) but several versions of Spider-Man, including Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) who is newly bitten by a radioactive spider and is learning how to be Spider-Man; Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson) who is an older version, and comes from a different verse; Spider-Woman (Hailee Steinfeld) who is Gwen Stacey but Spider-Woman in her verse; Peni Parker (Kimiko Glen) a Japanese version with a robot; Spider Man Noir (Nicholas Cage); and a porky the pig version (John Mulaney).  These spidermen team up to defeat King Pin (Liev Schrieber), whose manipulations of inter-dimensional technology to bring his family back, may rip apart the universe.  Another twist is that Miles Morales' uncle (Mahershala Ali) works for the King Pin.  There is some great fun and action here, and also confrontation of your fears.