Good entertainment!

Rating: 7/10 (17 November 2013)

I went into the movie banking on my prior liking for James Mangold's work (Knight & Day, Copland)and the Japanese setting. After watching the movie I was pretty pleased with the effort put in! i.e.the story besides some late twist was kinda old school but neatly handled. Furthermore, dialogs were good (much better than the first part!), acting kind-of ranged from fair to good, character development was fine and action sequences were also quite nicely done!
That said there were hardly any moments where I got distracted and that is some feat since the movie features a runtime of more than 2 hours.
It seems to be getting clearer with time why so many Wolverine fans had a fallout with this movie. Prior to its release the film was said to be based on the respected Wolverine comic to date, maybe those who read it found the movie to be seriously falling short of it; I never read it so I couldn't spot the differences i.e. if there were some. Secondly, almost all of the talk between Japanese characters (which amounts to more than 90%) in the movie is in Japanese which I believe is the right thing to do but may be this turned out to be a turn off!
Nonetheless, The Wolverine is much better than its predecessor and with reviews being heavily polarized on this one, the viewer better check it out. This is much better than the awful Ironman 3 and numerous other garbage movies rocking the B.O!