"This isn't going to end well!"

Rating: 1/10 (25 July 2013)

Says Jean Grey during one of her visits in Wolverine's nightmares and yet she is right. The Wolverine might have started in a good fashion but it is not a good movie by any means.
First of all I have to say that I didn't want to see this movie in the cinema but I did because my friends wanted to go. I knew right form the first trailer that this won't be a good movie. This is one of the things when I'm not glad I'm right. I enjoyed all the previous X-men movies but the paradox is I loved most the X-men Movie which featured none of the cast from the previous movies and had a completely different director: X-Men: First Class.
The Wolverine is the exact opposite of what the fans desired and the creators of this film promised. The fans were promised a take on the character that would be more faithful to the comics and and above all more violent. I guess we never get an R rated Wolverine or X-men movie which is a huge pity. I mean this is a character who has claws in his hands but actually never see any blood. We just hear the sound of his claws ripping through someone and the look of pain on his opponent. So we have to let the imagination roll. Wolverine is a brutal killing machine but with his heart in the right place. That's not the case in the movies. Here his portrayal seems to me as quite wimpy, and he gets wimpier and wimpier in every movie.
Hugh Jackman is perfect fit for the role of Wolverine, which makes more sad that we probably never get a proper X-men or Wolverine movie with this actor. This movie doesn't move Wolverine's character arc anywhere. This is just a bridge between 2006's The Last Stand and next year's Days of the Future Past, which you also get teased in the mid credits scene, which might be one of the best scenes in the movie. The movie doesn't have a villain. I mean there is many figures who are the bad guys but it lacks a main villain. You know what they say, that the hero is just as good as the villain.
The movie takes place in Japan however director James Mangold makes no use of the Japanese element. In fact it seems to me that is film is quite disgraceful to Japan and its culture when almost all the Japanese characters are portrayed as evil, greedy and hungry for wealth and power. The music is as generic as it can get with a summer blockbuster. No sign on of Japanese element in the music, which could have been very helpful.
Don't waste your many on this piece of garbage and wait for the next year's Days of the Future Past which will once again an ensemble X-men movie. Looks like solo movies about one character from the X-men universe don't work.
P.S. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the previous solo X-men movie which got a lot of hate is much better and more fun film than this.