When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is
embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.
Director:
Writers:
Mark Bomback (screenplay),
Scott Frank (screenplay)
Stars:
Story:
The Wolverine has emerged as a breakout star of the X-Men, and in this action adventure feature vehicle he's big in Japan: the mutant travels to Tokyo. This is a big, loud, commercial picture which does not appear to have been written so much as audience-tested, global-market-researched, greenscreened and CGI-ed to within an inch of its life. Hugh Jackman returns as Logan, with the long claws and the hair teased up either side of his head to resemble horns or animal ears. Jackman is a powerful, virile presence, and this movie – and maybe the whole X-Men franchise – would be nothing without him. But the proceedings look massively contrived, and when lonely Logan has to have tenderly conjugal fantasy-conversations with the ethereally white-clad Jean Gray (Famke Janssen) the effect is strained, especially as he gets some love interest with a beautiful young heiress, Mariko (Tao Okamoto), to whom he growls tough-guy stuff such as: "You can't pretend shit isn't happening when it is, princess."The situation turns out to have its genesis in Wolverine's experiences in Japan at the end of the second world war; now he finds himself mixed up with corporate skulduggery, yakuza crime, and a neo-Samurai cult of violence, culminating in a showdown in a weirdly designed interior location with high-up walkways and metal galleries whose only architectural function is to let people fall to their deaths. The movie features that excellent Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, who gave a performance to treasure in Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai (2002) – but is wasted here in a minor, bad guy role.
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Movie Rating (max. 5 Stars):
Summary:
I am a fan of action movies and also a fan of the X-men serie. In that case I look over some weak points. There is much action and fights. The story is a little bit poor, but 4 stars for me and a ....
Box Office:
| Domestic Total as of Sep. 8, 2013: $129,411,133 | |
| Distributor: Fox | Release Date: |
| Genre: Action | Runtime: 2 hrs. 6 min. |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Production Budget: $120 million |
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