The Wolverine

Anybody reading this probably thinks I'm running a year or so behind schedule as this film was released during 2013 but as I never bothered to trot down to the cinema for this one I've had to wait until I could download it from Sky Movies before I could review it.

Here goes...

The Wolverine is miles better than the crappy X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which was never going to be difficult). Hugh Jackman reprises his role for the umpteenth time and does a really good job. There is a lot of down to earth non-fantastical combat in this film which is great to see because that is what Wolverine is all about... ie. extending his claws and slashing his way through loads of baddies. The story is almost entirely set in Japan and centres on Logan being on the run with Mariko the granddaughter of a Japanese business man who Wolverine saved from the atomic bomb at the end of WWII. The plot is a little bit muddled and our hero spends a fair amount of time without his mutant healing ability and at the end is minus his adamantium claws too.

The worst character by far is Viper, a completely uninteresting villain with absolutely no charisma (where is Magneto when you want him?)

There is the obligatory end of credits scene which gives a taster for the events that transpire in X-Men: Days of Future Past... which will probably take me another year to watch and review.

Rating: 7/10