Now that Deadpool & Wolverine is nearly in theaters, it's time to ask if X-Men Origins: Wolverine deserves a critical reappraisal 15 years after its release.

So, it turns out he's a little too old for Jean anyway... Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re uncovering the origins of Wolverine before he joined the X-Men.

10. Delayed by the 2023 dual strikes in Hollywood, Deadpool 3, which was named Deadpool & Wolverine, was initially set to release in theaters May 3, 2024, but it moved to July 26, 2024.

And while it wasn't until 2016 that Ryan Reynolds ' Wade Wilson/Deadpool got his own movie, the superhero jokester first appeared on the big screen in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).

We’re not counting the brief appearance Reynolds made as a mouth-sewn-shut version of Deadpool in X -Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), because it’s best just to ignore that.

Deadpool & Wolverine has been a long time coming, stretching back to when Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman first crossed paths while making 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In that film, Reynolds ...

Now that Deadpool & Wolverine is nearly in theaters, it's time to ask if X-Men Origins: Wolverine deserves a critical reappraisal 15 years after its release.