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* One would think that escaping from Stryker’s mutant prison would be a big deal, yet no one seems interested in hunting Gambit down. Except when Logan manages to track him down “just like that,” all of the sudden Victor shows up. And still doesn’t apparently care about Gambit, who by the way, is the only mutant in the world who can blow the lid of Stryker’s operation.

* Why does Victor kill and behead a wolverine in the woods and leaves it for Logan to find? Logan didn’t start calling himself Wolverine at that point in time.

* How come Wolverine with his super-enhanced animal-like senses can’t tell Kayla is still alive? I mean, the movie admits that the drug merely slowed down her heart tremendously, but didn’t stop it.

* So Wolverine was shot in the head a bunch of times with adamantium bullets. Presumably the writers knew this would permanently leave a bunch of entry and exit holes in his skull since adamantium doesn’t heal and can’t be deformed once solidified from liquid form.

* In the New Orleans fight scene between Logan and Victor, just before the fight starts, Wolverine puts an elbow into Gambit’s face, knocking him out. A few minutes later, Gambit comes racing over the rooftops from some distance away to bring down his staff of power on them. What – did Gambit get up, run back to his apartment, grab his staff, and bound back to the fight?

* For a working nuke plant, TMI sure didn’t seem to be working in any of the shots. I mean, you have one of the cooling towers collapsing, but no meltdown alarms going off, no workers running around in panic. Heck, if you think about it, working nuclear plants have vast amounts of steam constantly venting out of the cooling towers because (drum roll) nuclear reactors need to be cooled. But the TMI as the location for the prison was revealed to be what it was – just a stupid set where a bunch of drunk lazy underpaid screenwriters got together and said, “Hey, what can top Alcatraz for a location?!”

And these are just some of gaping logical holes in the movie that serve to make an average film into a bad one. I won’t even go into poor creative decisions, such as throwing a “deep” relationship into our laps from nowhere and then expecting us to really believe that Logan and Kayla love each other (as opposed to showing us how they met and fell in love). Or never explaining where Victor’s anger and rage comes from or why it was necessary to invent a total throw-away villain whose name no one can even remember at the end of the movie.

Seriously, Wolverine is a Exhibit A in the evidence chamber of the negative effects of the writers’ strike. Total waste of Hugh Jackman. One of the worst comic book adaptions since Fantastic Four (both of them), Daredevil, Punisher, and Elecktra.

Then again, maybe you can’t blame it on the writers’ strike after all.

A strike of any type hurts everyone involved in the industry on both sides and the customer as well, who’s choices are limited and the options that are available suffer in quality.