"The Wolverine" PG 13
Seventy some years ago, Logan the Wolverine saved a Japanese army man during the bombing of Nagasaki. Seven decades later, on his dying wish, the man calls for Logan to return to Japan and repay his life debt. Troubled by nightmares about Jean Gray's ghost, and a wisecrascking Japanese guardian, Logan meets up with the man, who allegedly dies and entrusts him with guarding his daughter, and the possible secret of mortality. Logan is called a ronan or samurai without hout a master. Viper, another mutant, has apparently used her own powers to surpress Logan's popwers, so he is on the run through Japan from one amazing action set to another, including a bullet train fight, a Crouching Tiger nod in a palace house, outdoor street battles, and the final fight with the Silver Samurai. It is right out of the 1990s comic adaption. They also do some clever retcon to fix some of the damage from X Men 3, and X Men Origins by pretending some events may have not happened. Like if Jean is a ghost or something, maybe she isn't really dead, and there are other mutants around, so they couldn't have done away with all of them. This is just as well. And stay for the end credits sequence. It is crazy. It also helped that in the theater were several hyperactive teenagers giggling at every other scene. Well maybe that wasn't a help so much. Hugh Jackman though looks much older than when he started 13 years ago. They didn't de-age him. Ha.
Review by Adam Browne
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