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If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

I knew next to nothing about "Wolverine" before I sat down to watch it, but it didn't take me long to guess that it had been made for television in the 1990s. The movie is shot in a flat way, with grain and dull colors throughout. While the movie took the expense to actually shoot in Italy, the way the Italian background is shot makes it often look like it was shot in California. As for the rest of the movie, there's nothing really of interest on display. The movie has practically no action for the first 50 minutes, and the little action there is in the remaining 40 or so minutes is not the least bit exciting. And while Antonio Sabato Jr. may not be as bad an actor as some other B movie stars (such as Lorenzo Lamas), he gives an absolutely passionless performance. Even if you watch the movie for free on TV, you'll feel cheated far before the end.

... for a made for TV movie, which by the way, is why the "fade to black" business the previous viewer commented on. That's what happens when HBO uses a TV movie and there are no commercials shown!! Actually, for being born Italian, Sabato, Jr. (his family moved to the U.S. when he was very young) is a convincing American and incredibly easy on the eyes which is worth an extra star alone!

Certainly spoilers ahead...You know you've got a stinker on your hands when a member of some US intel service (I think he was CIA) doesn't know what a Navy SEAL is...(no I am not kidding).I caught this while waiting for another show to come on on HBO recently and have to say that it wasn't necessarily the acting, which I didn't notice to be really horrible, but the production as a whole. Every scene transition was a fade to black and not all smooth. Scenes which should have some tension or emotion were played very seriously and accompanied with horrid soap opera music. This alone added a certain cheapness that caused me to cringe.The story, the action, definitely unrealistic at times, but this had to have some budget to at least in part be filmed in Italy. Most of this can be blamed on the director and producers because the acting and story or realism flaws looked simple enough to clean up. Of course then it looked like they were trying to capitalize on the star Antonio Sabato's physique. Rolling through the little waves on a Zodiac, poised for some SEAL-like invasion, he just couldn't afford to miss a chance to show off his chest or miss any of those Italian sun rays. Situations like this ooze cheap, poor production, and actually this little story might have actually supported itself.One other thing of note, the plot summary given by HBO was that this SEAL was supposed to be a professor...and I just don't see it. Coupled with the fact that Sabato IS like only 31, he looks twenty-two and I didn't picture him as some PhD holding gung-ho guy who had time to go off and do a few years of military training when he wasn't off busting his ass in grad school. Sure, he could have just had a master's and been teaching underwater welding at the local Community College (when he wasn't off getting a tan...), but you be the judge. It all adds up to fluff, where there might have been potential.

Well it's quite amusing I suppose, very slow considering it's < 2 hours long, but there are some funny linesThe ending is however the lamest attempt at leaving it open for a sequel I've ever seen.