The Wolverine Review

Josh Lee-Dawson

The Wolverine is set after X-Men the last stand and it follows Hugh Jackman again as 'Wolverine' the plot of the movie is Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an acquaintance for what Wolverine is a final goodbye for Wolverine saving his life back in  World war 2 but 'Wolverine' does not know it but he is there for a more serious reason and throughout it Wolverine will face his demons.

The main actors in this movie are Hugh Jackman as 'Wolverine' and he plays this role brilliantly like he has for years when he needed to be gritty he was doing better than most people when he needed to be funny he when he needed to do anything you believed him as he was just such a believable actor. The other standout actor from this movie was from Svetlana Khodchenkova who plays as Viper she was brilliant all the way through she had to play and even villain who only cared about power and herself played it absolutely all the way through I was thinking what a sick monster who would do such things she just mad everything she done believable when basically nothing is in superhero movies.

The wolverine overall was a very good film but like most films it has a lot of flaws. Lets start with the story well the story overall is very interesting Wolverine goes to Japan so see a friend who is dying to say goodbye to him. But he doesn't know that he has been summoned here for another reason and that reason is a very interesting twist that gets you set for the rest of the movie and really gets you in the mood for the rest of the film. Now to one of the problems this movie overall is very good and there is a lot of action but at times this action is just too stop start and can really take you out the mood for example the typical final boss fight in superhero films. This boss fight was alright at best but the action was just too stop start and as a whole the fight was just very disappointing and i did leave the cinema after that feeling a little bit underwhelmed. What I do like about the film though is that we see the real Wolverine that did not come out in origins we saw him standing up for what was right and he was not afraid to let his anger out he and whereas we saw a little bit of it in wolverine we do saw the real Wolverine come out here gritty,angry,funny even sensitive when he needed to be. Throughout most of this film the CGI was good but at times the CGI, the green screens they just took away from the action a little bit taking you out of it once or twice but it never took you out of it for too long. The directing though was very good James Mangold really made you care for Wolverine he really did make you feel every emotion going through Wolverine a few more corrections and this movie would have been a lot better but I do think James Mangold was the right person for this movie he knew Wolverine inside out. 

Overall this movie is very good the acting is very strong, the action is very good keeping you on the edge of your seat most of the time. Along with the story you just couldn't move your eyes away from the screen even when the CGI was ugly. Finally the directing made the film as good as it was and i believe if anyone else directed it would not have been as good.

Rating

3 and a half cups of coke out of 5