Hugh Jackman's Wolverine character has been a fan favorite for over a decade now, and has appeared in no fewer than seven movies (X-men, X2, X-men: the Last Stand, X-men: First Class, X-men: Days of Future Past, X-men Origins: Wolverine, and now The Wolverine). The Wolverine is his second stand-alone (in other words, non-X-men) movie. Here, Wolverine travels to Japan to visit a dying soldier he saved during WWII. While there, the soldier reveals that he yearns for Logan's immortality, and wants to take it from him. Wolverine refuses, and the soldier dies shortly thereafter. Logan's about to leave, but finds the soldier's family embroiled in organized crime and deception and decides to help the soldier's granddaughter. As he seeks to protect her, he gets involved in something far more serious than he realized.
"That's two hours of my life I'll never get back." So said my wife, after watching this with me, and I regrettably concurred with her bleak assessment. I'm trying to find something positive about this movie and I'm coming up with nothing. The plot was confusing, inconsistent, and poorly developed, with characters switching sides with no warning or logic and odd things happening rather frequently. The surprises of the movie are easy to see coming, and there appears to be no overall point (i.e. this flick doesn't move the overall X-men story arc forward at all). Not recommended.
Rating: D
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