A bore

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2013)

Hugh Jackman is fine in the role, as always, and some of the action sequences are good (though I hated the fight on top of the bullet train - it struck me as incredibly stupid), but the story is fairly cliché and there's just no flow. The story has Wolverine summoned to Japan to say goodbye to an old acquaintance whose life he saved in WWII (Hal Yamanouchi). There he gets pulled into a web of intrigue and ninjas. Rila Fukushima provides able support as a red haired martial artist with superior sword skills. Tao Okamoto is pretty but dull as the love interest. Svetlana Khodchenkova is embarrassingly bad as a prostitute, er, doctor who is also not very secretly an evil mutant. She feels way out of place. Marvel has done such a good job with their Avengers franchise, and the last X-Men movie was pretty good, but this is a dud. A lot of the critics who liked it liked it specifically because it separated this hero from his milieu, and I think that's partly why I didn't like it much at all.