The Wolverine Movie Reviews

Without going into too much details of the plot, it is well written. It will keep you gripped and at the edge of your seat. There are some cameo appearances towards the end which the fans would enjoy.

Some of the Wolverine's (Jackman) instinctual qualities include being able to sniff out danger. So, when Yukio (Fukushima) tracks down Logan and brings him to Yashida (Yamanouchi), Logan senses something wrong. He is angered by the deal Yashida suggests and plans to leave Japan. But then, he encounters Yashida's sexy granddaughter Mariko ( Tao Okamoto) who immediately appeals to another set of Logan's instincts

The Wolverine Movie Review | Rating: 4/5 stars (Four Stars) | What’s Good: An energetic and persuasive narrative...

Also, the yarn devolves into blockbuster movie clichés during the extended end battle. Hugh Jackman is the cast standout. Rila Fukushima is sassy as the emissary who coaxes him out of self-imposed exile.

Early on in 'The Wolverine', we watch an unshaven, disheveled Logan staked out in the wilderness, somewhere in a snowy part of North America, leading a quiet existence surrounded by nature, and haunted by the loss of his beloved girlfriend Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), whom he previously killed. He appears to have an unspoken understanding with the wild beasts he lives amidst, and contempt for most humans. Hugh Jackman's sixth outing as Marvel's clawed superhero

The X Men' lost steam after the first two films when Brett Ratner desecrated the charm of the material with the third film. 'X Men Origins Wolverine' turned out to be even worse and it looked like the franchise had been killed. Matthew Vaughn’s 'First Class' brought a new shade to the series and Bryan Singer’s plans of 'Days of the Future Past' meant that Hugh Jackman’s character would get one more movie

Though I sometimes tire of the sufferings of superheroes, I have a permanent soft spot for the Wolverine, the Marvel mutant whose indestructibility causes him endless physical and existential pain. As played by Hugh Jackman through six “X-Men” features (including one about the Wolverine’s origins), he is a shaggy, soulful, perpetually roughed-up character, and a bit of a misfit even among his peers

It isn’t the best of the mutant series. It’s just a sharp marketing trick aimed to please Jackman fans, and it works just fine.

Superheroes are running wild this year. From Ironman to Man of Steel to Wolverine. In Wolverine, like always, Hugh Jackman owns it. Right from the......

In The Wolverine, the sixth feature in 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise, Hugh Jackman’s silver-clawed superhero scratches out an adventure in Japan. James Mangold, the film’s director, has claimed that his picture was partly influenced by the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu’s elegiac 1959 drama Floating Weeds. Ozu was, and remains, the master of the ‘pillow shot’: quiet still lifes with no inherent meaning or narrative content

When we eventually look back at The Wolverine, Hugh Jackman's latest snikt-and-sideburns adventure, it may prove to be a turning point in the increasingly cluttered superhero movie genre. It is a sparse, stark film -- focusing on a critically-acclaimed storyline that is anything but comic -- with long, dialogue-less stretches as the story unfolds slowly, in its own time. It also feels like less of a blockbuster event than we're used to

There’s fine line between familiar and boring, and The Wolverine looks like it’s a franchise that needs someone to stop it from mutating into predictable and dull.