The Wolverine Review!!!

WOLVERINES!!! I had to. Wolverine is back! The last few X-MEN movies haven't been the best of films. They've actually been very bad. The last film that had Wolverine in the title was the one that REALLY pissed people off. Something that had to do with a character whose mouth was sewed shut? Something to do with a member of the Black Eyed Peas? I don't know.

Is this film Wolverine's redemption?

The movie opens with a beautiful shot of Japan's ocean during WW2, but the subtlety is short lived, for a nucuelar bomb is about to destroy the camp Wolverine is imprisoned. A soilder named Yashida tells Wolverine to escape, but Wolverine says it would be safer in the prison he is in. The bomb drops, and Wolverine saves Yashida form the blast as his human shield. When we see Wolverine after the blast it's... pretty grusome. Seriously, he looks like ground up hamburger that can heal.

We cut to Wolverine waking up from what was a nightmare. He's out of breath and freaking out, but Jean Grey is there to calm him down. This is the scene where we learn that this movie is set after X-MEN The Last Stand. In that movie Wolverine kills Jean to save everyone, so in this movie he's obviously haunted by that. He tells Jean that he's sorry for what he did, and he'll never hurt her or anyone again. Heh, yeah. I guess that's why you got another movie.

Wolverine wakes again, for that was ALSO a nightmare (Inception). It looks like Wolverine hasn't been doing so well since The Last Stand. He lives in a cave, has his Jean Valjean beard, and is neighbors with bears. Ok. After a very dark scene (involving a bear) Wolverine goes to the local bar looking for a fight. When he's about to pop out the claws he's stopped by a woman named Yukio. She tells him that she has been sent to bring Wolverine to Japan to say goodbye to the dieing Yashida.

When they arive in Japan Wolverine learns that Yashida has become the richest man over the years, and that his home has been attacked many times. When we see Yashida he is talking to his granddaughter Mariko. The obvious love interest of the movie. Logan (Wolverine) talks to Yashida about the curse of imortality. Yashida wants to take Logans healing factor from him so that he can live. Logan says that Yashida doesn't want the mutant power and goes.

Not so long story short.

 Wolverine gets his healing factor taken away. Yashida is dead. There's awesome fight scenes. Funeral. Asian Hakeye. Logan and Mariko run away. The Mission to Mars. Jean keeps poping up. Logan and Mariko love each other. Mariko is taken to secret hideout. Logan meets up with Yukio. Logan get's his healing factor back. They go to save Mariko. Silver Samuria kills.... Silver Samuria? Logan saves Mariko. Logan goes of for more adventures.

Oh, forgot to mention a few things.

It turned out that the Silver Samuria was Yashida the whole time. (That was a weak twist). He was in that giant robot suit you see in the trailers. Anyway, he does the Magneto move of sucking out the adamantium and healing factor of Wolverine. He actually cuts of Wolverines metal claws, but Wolverine grows out his bone claws. Cool. There were people in my theater mad about that, but I remembered that there was a time in the comic books where he had the bone claws. It was actually after Magneto sucked out the adamantium and healing factor out of his body.

Maybe he'll get the metal back in Day's of Future Past.... SPEAKING OF WHICH!!!

Yeah. I need to talk about this. The awesomeness of the after credits scene. While the credits are rolling there is a scene that just came out of no where. The scene is set 2 years later in an airport where Logan is about to fly. He looks up at a TV that is advretising TRASK INDURSTRIES. He then see's alot of metal moving and he turns around and is about to strike the person behind him. It turns out the person is MAGNETO!!! He tells Wolverine that there are human forces that are working on something that can destroy all mutants. Wolverine asks how he could trust him. (I wouldn't ask him that. I'd ask "HEY! How'd you get your powers back? Beast gave you the cure! And how are you stopping me from killing you? I don't have any more adamantium!) But anyway.

 Magneto tells Wolverine that he couldn't trust him and then PROFFESSER X comes out of no where! He ask the proffesser how heis alive which is what I would actually ask him. He says that there are more powerful forces in the world and then the screen cuts to black.

That is how a post credit scene is done!

My overall thoughts on the movie are that its good, but it had problems. I don't think the villains were very well done in the movie especially that Viper lady. she was barely in the movie she didn't do anything other than put venom on other peoples faces. I don't think the Silver Samurai was handled very well. I think the Harada character had some potential but they didn't really do much with him. I really didn't like the little twist with Yashida. That was really weak.

But I did like how Wolverine was portrayed in this movie. I thought he was scary, I thought he was sympathetic, and I thought he was much more kick ass in this movie then he was in X Men Origins Wolverine. Good job Hugh Jackman.

I'm going to give this movie a high MATINEE!!! It was fun, dark, and made me excited for X Men Days of Future past!!