An American Wolverine in Tokyo.

Rating: 5/10 (31 March 2019)

The second of Wolverine's standalone movies, The Wolverine sees Logan (Hugh Jackman) travelling to Tokyo where dying businessman Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi) would like to say goodbye to the man who saved his life during WWII. While in Japan, Logan becomes embroiled in a battle for control of Yashida's empire, and must protect the life of the businessman's granddaughter Mariko (Tao Okamoto).
The Wolverine is far from the best of the X-Men movies - the plot isn't strong enough to sustain the 126 minute runtime and is riddled with holes - but Jackman is always great, and any film with ninjas is cool in my book. The film also features one of the silliest action scenes of the franchise - a battle between Logan and the yakuza on the roof of a speeding Bullet train - which, despite its preposterousness, is still entertaining, AND it's got a fight against a giant adamantium samurai robot with a flaming sword, which must count for something.
My advice: sit back, switch off your brain, and enjoy the spectacle, safe in the knowledge that the next Wolverine movie, Logan (2017), is reputedly much, much better.