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Movies that feel likeX-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

After seeking to live a normal life after 200 years, Logan sets out to avenge a death by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.

If you loved X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the closest films we have are Ender's Game (2013), X2 (2003) and Black Panther (2018). All three share X-Men Origins: Wolverine's epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Bumblebee (2018).

🍅 37% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gavin Hoodepickineticcerebral
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Wolverine (2013) · Logan (2017)

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Ender's Game
2013 · dir. Gavin Hood
🍅 63%★ 6.6science fiction · action · adventure

Gavin Hood working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed even better

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

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X2
2003 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 85%★ 7.4adventure · action · science fictionDisney+

Both are working the same pair: superhero, mutant

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

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Black Panther
2018 · dir. Ryan Coogler
🍅 96%★ 7.3action · adventure · science fictionHuluDisney+

One thread runs through both: superhero

King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.

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Superman Returns
2006 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 72%★ 6.1science fiction · action · adventureMax

Epic where it counts, kinetic underneath

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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The Incredible Hulk
2008 · dir. Louis Leterrier
🍅 68%★ 6.6science fiction · action · adventureHuluDisney+

Cerebral adventure, and it commits to that

Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.

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Captain Marvel
2019 · dir. Ryan Fleck
🍅 79%★ 6.7action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Justice League
2017 · dir. Zack Snyder
🍅 39%★ 6action · adventure · science fictionMax

Kinetic science fiction in both cases

Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.

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Bloodshot
2020 · dir. David S. F. Wilson
🍅 31%★ 5.7action · science fiction · adventureHulu

The same preoccupation in both: powerful

After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine—'Bloodshot'. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility to get revenge, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.

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Venom: The Last Dance
2024 · dir. Kelly Marcel
🍅 40%★ 6science fiction · action · adventureNetflixDisney+

Both lean on ideas more than on adventure

Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023 · dir. Peyton Reed
🍅 46%★ 6action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

Action built on scale, twice over

Super-Hero partners Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, along with with Hope's parents Janet van Dyne and Hank Pym, and Scott's daughter Cassie Lang, find themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought possible.

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Bumblebee
2018 · dir. Travis Knight
🍅 91%★ 6.7action · adventure · science fictionParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spin off

On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary yellow VW bug.

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The Fantastic 4: First Steps
2025 · dir. Matt Shakman
★ 6.8science fiction · adventure · actionDisney+

Same instincts, 16 years apart

Against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel's First Family is forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, while defending Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.

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