An Honest Review

Rating: 9/10 (20 November 2016)

The first Wolverine solo movie stank. They ruined Deadpool and then tried to craft a movie that revolved almost entirely around a montage.
You can't make a movie that is one long montage.
But they corrected that in The Wolverine. They turned off the montage and gave us an actual story to follow...so much better than a two-hours of cut scenes.
And, to boot they gave us a quintessentially Wolverine solo adventure. So much of his comics revolved around Japan and Mardipol that the comic book audience was longing for it.
X-Men Origins was a disappointment, it har4dly even felt like a Wolverine solo adventure.
The Wolverine, however, has everything that die-hard fans loved about the Wolverine stories right down to Mariko and the Silver Samurai, the Japanese Yakuza and Wolverine-Ninja face offs.
It's a fan movie for the people that like the comics, and for the people that like the character. It fills in chunks of his long Swiss cheese fairly fraudulent memory and sets the stage for him to be not just the most developed character in the X-Franchise, but the ONLY really developed character in the franchise. Or at least the most consistent character...which is hysterical given that it's Wolverine.
there is real story here, so of course there are going to be a ton of kids out there calling it "boring." But for those of us that like something more than just images on a screen, this is a great comic book film.