It has a Watchmen opening montage following Wolvie and
brother Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) through history's most picturesque battles (Trenches!
Not exact matches
And sooner or later we meet the familiar rogues: the villainous
Sabretooth (Wolverine's
brother, this time around played by Liev Schreiber with «the fingernails of a bag lady»), the treacherous William Stryker (the Brian Cox character in» 03, now recast with Danny Huston), even a certain Cyclops (a whiny teenager with bad eyes, in keeping with the franchise's history of treating the X-Men's longtime leader like a spindly punch line) and the inevitable cameo by a very familiar X-tra.
Director Hood (Tsotsi) opens strong, with a wickedly crafted opening - credits sequence that shows young mutant Logan and his more feral half -
brother, Victor, aka
Sabretooth (Schreiber), emerging from Canada's Northwest Territories, circa 1845, to fight side by side in the Civil War, both World Wars, and Vietnam (what, Korea wasn't badass enough?).
In particular, early ideas for the film featured the inclusion of Wolverine's half -
brother and fellow mutant,
Sabretooth.
That's important, because someone has killed his girlfriend, Kayla (Lynn Collins), and that someone is probably his also - mutant
brother Victor /
Sabretooth, meaning there's going to be a lot of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - style fighting in which there are no stakes because no one can die.