Yea, it needs to be a reboot.
Wolverine Origins really did ruin the movie version of the character. In short, he was a ***** cat. How are we supposed to buy that this guy battles with his animalistic urges?
Origins ruined the character because that was when he was supposed to be at his MOST brutal. So his characters journey in the sequel will just not resonate or be powerful, because he was never an animal in the first place.
Aye, I agree they missed an opportunity with Origins in that regard, and were afraid to show Wolverine as an out and out bad guy when he was working for Stryker's team(as was implied by Stryker in X2).
But, they can still explore the struggle with the animal side in the second film, look at what they did at the end of the Origins, after he lost his memories he was automatically more paranoid and angry, probably because he was afraid. So, you can start to explore the paranoid, mistrustful Wolverine we saw at the start of X1, as he barrels around with no sense of himself.
I mean, he has no memory, and comes equipped with those claws, basically built as a killing machine, so he might get ****ed up thinking he was some murderering bad guy in the past, and struggle with that, thinking, 'Ok, these claws were not designed for opening cans of beans, wtf have I been up to with them?!' So, he has his good nature coming to the fore when ceratin situations arise, but also has that animal beserker side that can surface when he is in trouble.
'Is this good side only emerging because I lost all my memories of me being a complete bad guy?! Or was I a good guy who was captured and experimented on, to be used as a weapon and I escaped? So is this raging side of me only emerging cause I lost my memories?!'
Lots of potential there, and that was the most interesting part of his characterisation in the original trilogy, so we get to see him go through all that from the beginning.
Ok, Origins was badly written, I mean, it has so much stupid stuff in it that could have easily been fixed and made better, but I wouldn't say it was something along the lines of Batman and Robin or Superman Returns, where there was clearly a need for recasting and rebooting.
We have weak links in comic books series, so inevitably we will get the odd so-so movie in a long movie series.
It had some great action now and again, Liev was great as Sabretooth and Gambit was done well(although they really missed a trick not having him in the movie more, as he played very well with Jackman in their short scenes together, could have had a great cop-buddy movie vibe like Leathal Weapon), it was not a completely useless addition to the X-Men saga.
I think Jackman has proven he could handle all those aspects of Wolverine's persona, in the first two X-Men films the character is basically how he was presented in the early Claremont/Byrne comics, the books that developed and defined the character.
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