X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I find this prequel to the X-Men series very, very difficult to review because, as a fan of the original series, I have quite a strong opinion.
One of the main story lines throughout X-Men was the mystery surrounding Wolverine's background.
Continuity between X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the trilogy is vital and I'm not entirely sure it was there. That's a massive negative for me.
We start off by learning about James Logan (Hugh Jackman) and his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) and how they are different from others and apparently they are immortal because we start in 1845 with them as children, they grow up then stay the same age for about 150 years.
Pretty good work there.
Aside from that glaring problem, Logan and Creed are discovered by Colonel Stryker (Danny Huston) and are made a part of his `government team' of people with special talents. This crew is particularly interesting.
Long story short, Logan chooses good over evil and leaves the clan when their actions and his beliefs collide.
For about half the film the best way I can describe it is `meh', it was all right but not particularly awesome. I will say that it did pick up, we met a horribly underused character called Gambit, and things came together reasonably. That's the big challenge they faced here, the dots had to be joined between this and the first X-Men movie.
I'm going to say that this movie didn't need to be made. I liked that Wolverine was mysterious and torn and knowing what happened to him doesn't make a lot of difference (largely because ultimately he doesn't know his own background come X-Men). So it's all a bit redundant.
Having said that, there was some good action and interesting characters. A 6.5 out of 10, pretty poor considering X-Men 3 got a 7.5 from me.