The Wolverine
Release date: 25th July 2013
Top Billing: Hugh Jackman
Tao Okamoto
The story is set shortly after the last X-Men film. Unable
to come to terms with killing the love of his life, Jean, so much so he is
living in a cave in the middle of nowhere and if it was possible, trying to
kill himself with booze.
It quickly turns to action, where it is at its best, when he
is asked to meet someone he saved a long time ago. Reluctantly he agrees but
surprise, surprise things do not go according to plan, well at least not for
him and we are set on a roller coaster of action pumping thrills and spills, as
he tries to save the latest woman in his life. The dying man offers him mortality,
a way out for his tortuous life but when is it ever that simply for Wolverine?
The action sequences are as always the best parts of the
film, you don’t expect much of a plot, bad guys want to use Wolverine in some
way and he struggles through with his usual grumpy but loveable angry tone. As
a woman I know I shouldn’t complain but the film makers were really making sure
that the female eye had something to look at and boy did we have something to
look at. Hugh Jackman was topless for most of the film and at one point totally
naked, was that really necessary?
Wolverine Origins showed us how and why he became the man he
was but here nothing was resolved, other than the big showdown at the end. I
expected a little better, the acting as always was good but the story needed
work.
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