Wolverine reveal's violence feels unearned

I enjoy grisly work—Braindead is my favorite zombie movie, The Fly one of my all-time films, and I’ve been delighted and horrified by season four of From—so I’m not squeamish. Even so, after watching Insomniac’s lengthy Wolverine reveal I came away exhausted and disappointed by the bloodshed.

David Cronenberg’s films show how gore can be earned—the Fly’s grisly transformation matters because of the humanity given to Jeff Goldblum’s character and Geena Davis’s performance, and even Braindead builds to its outrageous peak so the violence feels deserved.

That earnedness was missing in the Wolverine footage. Early on, two guards are viciously slaughtered: one stabbed through the back of his shoulders, the other lifted and skewered through the side of her face, splattering Logan in a thick coating of blood that continues for the next six minutes.

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