Review of The Wolverine (2013) by Dharma — 25 Jul 2013
The Wolverine is a great film that restores my faith in the X-Men franchise. After the debacle that was X-Men Last Stand and Origins, I was completely turned off by the franchise. While X-Men First Class restored my faith, The Wolverine cemented it even further, with its focus on the psychology of the Wolverine.
What is the price of immortality and what does that to a man? It's essentially a smaller film, and director James Mangold understood this fact. Kudos for Jackman, who has inhabited this role for 13 years! This is the role that made him a star and he knew it inside and out.
Nods should be given to the Japanese casts, amazing considering the ladies were essentially first timers. The only qualm I have: after going to this realistic and gritty road, faithful to the comic, it went for a typical comic book style climax.
Other than that though, a solid film and a great appetizer for X-Men Days of Future Past.
This review of The Wolverine (2013) was written by Dharma on 25 Jul 2013.
The Wolverine has generally received positive reviews.
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