As its title suggests, it fills in origins blanks, opening on a dark and stormy night (it’s that clichéd) in the wilds of Canada in the mid-19th century. William Stryker’s (Danny Huston) “Weapon X” program, project the militarized masculinity that is at the heart of the film. Wolverine’s muscles and adamantium claws, provided courtesy of Col. Scary as that body may be, it’s also perfectly appropriate as a visual extension of the weaponization of Wolverine. It’s creepy and a little bit gross, as if People‘s reigning “Sexist Man Alive” wanted to tarnish that title just a bit. In these tableaux, muscles strain against and ropy veins seem just about ready to pop out his skin. However he achieved it, Jackman’s body is the movie’s front and center focus, as the Wolverine Anger Pose - arms extended with claws out, shoulders hunched, and head thrown back in a bestial howl - is repeated ad nauseam. Muscle Measure extolled his dedication and detailed his program, and fans have been quibbling over whether he could have achieved such mass without the help of steroids. Entertainment Weekly dedicated the opening paragraph of its cover article on the film to the bulk-up. A seeming mountain of press has been given to the training regimen Jackman undertook in preparation for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. As Wolverine, Hugh Jackman is totally vascular.
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