Too slow, boring and not a good story

Rating: 4/10 (31 July 2013)

There's so much wrong with this picture that I don't really know where to start. Okay, I will start at the beginning. Logan saves a Japanese guy (Yashida) from the Nagasaki bombing. Although we do not know why Logan was there imprisoned at that time. In X-Men Origins – Wolverine, he was fighting in France in WW2 together with Victor (Sabretooth) and after that in Vietnam. Now D-Day was indeed a year before the Nagasaki bombing, so Logan could have been there, but then where is Sabretooth. It turns out to be a dream (within a dream) but they sell it as a memory that is a heavy burden for Logan. Also why Yashida freed him is totally unclear as Logan is a part of the enemy, bombing his city.
After he wakes up from the real dream the story develops extremely slow and it takes for about 20 minutes before something action-wise happens. For an action movie this takes way too long and I could not help finding myself yawning at some time. Some characters are introduced here that do not have any use for the plot (like the fiancée of the granddaughter). Once we have had some action at the funeral of Yashida and Logan trying to save his granddaughter we get back into the coma as before. Logan discovers in the train ride away from the city he is not healing like he used to and at that time I was thinking the director must have been worried too without knowing what to do about the pace of the movie.
The next action sequence in and on top of the train gave me a little hope this movie was just starting really slow and from that point would become the usual roller-coaster towards the end. But no, we dive back into that same coma again, this time for at least another 20 minutes. Then I was too bored to care about the story anymore.
Of course the fiancée turns out to be an asshole (that's how he was introduced so no surprises there, not that it had anything to do with the movie), just like the father, the evil Viper doctor is really evil (really? Yes really) and for someone so strong and powerful with toxic nails, breath and spit she dies extremely quick. And why the old love of the granddaughter supports the Viper doctor and what turns out to be a not so dead Yashida riddles me. Didn't he vow to protect her? Well, any child could tell he was playing for the wrong team to do that! You would expect a ninja to do so too. And why did Yashiba want to take the healing from Logan when he didn't want to give it ? Logan was only protecting his one true heir, his granddaughter.
No I think this movie missed a good team of writers and a great director. This was a failure for me. The acting is okay, the sfx are okay, but it misses everything a great action movie should have: a heart and soul. And then I did not mention yet that you have seen all the action already in the trailer.