Older brother Victor Creed (who sports weaponized fingernails and preternatural dexterity) drags James into the surrounding forest to evade capture. “What are you?” gasps his horrified mother. Overtaken with rage, bony claws sprout from James’ forearms for the very first time, and the boy reflexively buries them in the interloper’s torso. James Howlett, a sickly adolescent, burns with fever as his birth father assaults his mother and brutally kills his stepfather.
So before I launch into my review in earnest, a primer on its titular mutant’s … origin. The movie is called X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
