Good Superhero Movie

Rating: Null/10 (26 July 2013)

Its the season of superheros and comic book characters for Hollywood, the latest offering 'The Wolverine'. The movie is based on everyone's favorite mutant antihero — tortured, boozy X-Man Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine.Though the film connects and refers to various past "X-Men" films, this one is no sequel. It has a consolidated story by itself and the past references beautifully merge with the present tale on its own.
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The movie opens with Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) saving a young Japanese soldier Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi) survive the atomic blast (Yes,Logan is capable of surviving a nuclear blast. If you have a problem with the physics of that, you might as well stop reading now) at Nagasaki. Then we flash-forward to the present day, with Logan living in the Yukon in hibernation to escape his memories of having killed his true love, Jean Grey (Refer : X-Men:The Last Stand).It is only when Yukio (Rila Fukushima), a fiery warrior with equally fiery red hair, finds Logan and tells him that Yashida is dying and wishes to say goodbye that Logan returns to society and heads to Japan. However he soon realizes that Yashida wants to say more than a goodbye in short take advantage of Logan's healing powers. Being denied that, Yashida dies but not before he makes Logan promise that he would protect his granddaughter Mariko(Tao Okamoto) who he fears would be murdered soon after she inherits his empire. What follows is crazy politics withing the Yashida clan along with a high dose of action.There's sword fighting, knife throwing, and some ninjas with bows and arrows. In the middle of it all, of course, the claws come out.There is a female villain - Viper(Svetlana Khodchenkova).
Performances
Hugh Jackman as Logan expertly fits into the character. He shows the inner struggle and emotional conflict with great ease and creates a connect with the audience.Tao Okamota as the dynamic Mariko is beautiful and elegant, but the chemistry between Logan and her is superficial . Rila Fukushima is decent as Yukio. Unfortunately the worst part of the film is Svetlana Khodchenkova's role as Viper. The character sketch for the same is very weak.She brings too much melodrama in the movie.Her costumes sadly laughable and her main motive seems to be villainy for villainy's sake. The editing by Francois Audouy is crisp and director of photography Ross Emery too is worth a mention.And, true to Marvel fashion, there's an excellent post-credits scene.
Verdict
The Wolverine is an entertaining movie you can definitely catch it this weekend but you may not like this film if you aren't fond of superhero flicks based on comic book characters.
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