I Origins

I Origins: Wolverine

written by

Maël

I love the human eye, an organ as fascinating scientifically as it is mesmerizing to behold. So, for about 5% of the film I was happy as can be just looking at gorgeous photography of the human eye. That’s about all that made me happy with this sanctimonious trash. Anyway, what if a character said this, and it was the sincere capture of the plot of the film. “What if eyes really are windows to the soul?” lmao holy fucking shit Imagine detonating a bomb and destroying the entire second half of your already struggling soft sci-fi romantic mess of a movie. Well, the good news is you don’t have to imagine it, you can see it happen in real time watching I Origins. A film where r/im14andthisisdeep was the source of the script. A protagonist fulfilling the angry “I HATE GOD” scientist trope the entire runtime. The most basic ass science versus faith story. The Radiohead needle drop at the literal final three minutes of the movie is the biggest defibrillator hit imaginable. And if this shit couldn’t possibly get any more stupid, there is a post-credits scene featuring an array of historical figures being iris matched to living people, and of course, every despot of the last century is there.