THE WOLVERINE (2013) MOVIE REVIEW
Sorry for the lack of content recently, I have had more important errands to take care of. Now with those taken care of, let's review a movie that I saw two weeks ago!
The Wolverine begins with a scene featuring Logan (Hugh Jackman) imprisoned during what appears to be the Vietnam War. As the scene progresses, a nuclear bomb explodes on a near by island, with the radiation coming towards them. Whilst a random soldier attempts to die the honourable way, Logan immediately grabs him and protects the soldier in his protective cell. When Logan and the solider emerge, there appears to be no sign of life anywhere. Thanking him, the soldier offers Logan his sword, though Logan refuses in a sign of honour and respect. Many years after this, Logan is left wandering the Earth due to the events that occurred during X-Men 3. While roaming around the planet, he is soon confronted by a mysterious woman named Yukio (Rila Fukushima) saying that her employer would like to offer something to him. Reluctantly accepting this invitation Logan travels to Japan where he is shocked to see the soldier he rescued. The veteran offers Logan a chance at redemption and a meaningful life, to become mortal. Though Logan considers this, he eventually decides to refuse, leaving the employer furious. Following that day, events soon turn sour as Logan is shot point blank with a shotgun, leaving him in agonising pain. Receiving aid from Yukio, he soon realises that his regeneration powers have been stripped of him. Now mortal, Logan must now find out who stole his regenerative powers and attempt at getting them back. For the most part, I was really intrigued in the plot and how it was going to play out. While at times it felt like Wolverine was not really mortal due to the stunts that he performs, the plot still managed to stay together and only managed to bother me very rarely.
Now the director of this film is James Mangold, the director of such great films like 3:10 to Yuma and when watching this movie, you can really tell that this guy made this as it has a very similar style to that of 3:10 to Yuma, which in my eyes, is never a negative. As for the special effects, I thought they were really quite amazing as this film has some really cool action scenes, though at times it seems the action is a little over the top. For example, in the first action sequence in the movie, Logan gets shot multiple times with both pistols and shotguns at point blank range, and he is sprinting with all his might like nothing happened. Though this is most likely due to the fact that his inner structure is basically near indestructible metal. Without question the best action scene in the entire movie is the one on the train as because everything is going extremely fast, one wrong move can send someone flying. James really used this to his advantage as when Logan jumps to avoid a sign, he tricks the other person to jump causing them to obliterate on the sign. Whilst the action is over the top and great, I was a little disappointed with the last action scene in the movie as in my opinion, I feel they could have done a bit more with what they were given. Despite this, the special effects were intriguing and although the film has 3-D, it really didn't add much for me so I won't discuss it.
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| Still of Rila Fukushima and Hugh Jackman |
Now the director of this film is James Mangold, the director of such great films like 3:10 to Yuma and when watching this movie, you can really tell that this guy made this as it has a very similar style to that of 3:10 to Yuma, which in my eyes, is never a negative. As for the special effects, I thought they were really quite amazing as this film has some really cool action scenes, though at times it seems the action is a little over the top. For example, in the first action sequence in the movie, Logan gets shot multiple times with both pistols and shotguns at point blank range, and he is sprinting with all his might like nothing happened. Though this is most likely due to the fact that his inner structure is basically near indestructible metal. Without question the best action scene in the entire movie is the one on the train as because everything is going extremely fast, one wrong move can send someone flying. James really used this to his advantage as when Logan jumps to avoid a sign, he tricks the other person to jump causing them to obliterate on the sign. Whilst the action is over the top and great, I was a little disappointed with the last action scene in the movie as in my opinion, I feel they could have done a bit more with what they were given. Despite this, the special effects were intriguing and although the film has 3-D, it really didn't add much for me so I won't discuss it.
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| Still of Hugh Jackman on top of train |
Now for the acting, for the most part I felt it was really good and standard for any X-Men related movie. Hugh Jackman still manages to portray Wolverine perfectly and is still able to kick any kind of ass he faces. Fukushima was good in her role as Yukio and although she has only been in two recorded films, she is actually a stand out actress and I know from this, will get more jobs in the future. Now the villain, it was really hard to decide who the stand out villain as for the most part, there were three. Though when it came down to it, I had to decide who stole their scenes more in terms of evilness. Because of this, I went with the Russian actress that portrayed Viper. All the males that are reading this can agree on one thing, and that is that this woman was incredibly stunning. She is just a beautiful woman and was menacing to boot, though I would have liked to see her more as a character and not just someone who looks sexy, but I'm not saying that's always a bad thing. Overall, the acting was good for what it was and I would not want it any other way.
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| Still of Svetlana Khodchenkova and Hugh Jackman |
I'm a little torn on this movie as I want to give a better rating since it was a movie leading into next year's new X-Men movie. Since it's fair, I have to give my honest opinion on it as a movie. Because of that, I believe that The Wolverine while was not as good as I expected to be, I still had a great time with it and I would easily recommend seeing this and for the hell of it, I may just buy this on Blu-Ray. Also, make sure you stick behind after the credits as there is a pretty cool scene during the credits.
OVERALL: 7.4/10
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