A great standalone Wolverine story

Rating: 7/10 (4 March 2017)

The Wolverine picks up on the story of Logan (Hugh Jackman) after X-Men: The Last Stand and is an improvement on the standalone Wolverine film from his origin story. The movie captures historical context by an introductory flashback to the bombing of Nagasaki where Wolverine is held as a prisoner of war and helps to save the life of a young Japanese soldier from the atomic bomb. The film flashes to Logan having a nightmare about Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) who he had killed in the previous film. He has taken to wandering aimlessly in the Canadian wilderness after the tragedy on Alcatraz until a poisoned bear brings him back to civilization.
Before Logan can exact revenge on the bear killing hunters, he is stopped by the fortune-teller Yukio (Rila Fukushima) who proposes that he fly with her back to Japan to see the young soldier, now an old mogul Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi). He quickly becomes embroiled in the backstabbing corporate dealing of Yashida's business and is forced to thwart the assassination and kidnapping attempts on Yashida's granddaughter Mariko (Tao Okamoto).
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