The Wolverine: The Trailer That Said it All

Rating: 1/10 (28 July 2013)

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INTRO:
Another movie from the storied Marvel franchise staring their most iconic X-Men member James "Logan" Howlett a.k.a. Wolverine. This time around the directorship of the film was passed to James Mangold who was the director of one of my favorite movies 3:10 to Yuma. Hugh Jackman stars as Wolverine as usual. These three factors (Marvel's Wolverine, Hugh Jackman, and James Mangold) should constitute a fantastic movie. This particular film is an adaptation from the 1982 comic book series of the same name. The film originally began in 2009 with Darren Aronofsky (director of Black Swan and The Wrestler) as the director, but was delayed due to a variety of things including the earthquake and tsunamis in Japan. In 2011, James Mangold took over for Aronofsky.
PLOT: If you watched the trailer for this movie, you could have guessed the entirety of the plot. Nothing in this movie would have surprised you at all except for the mars themed room that Logan and Mariko rent at a sex hotel on their way to Nagasaki. The trailer showed wolverine meeting Yashida, not being able to heal as fast, fighting Viper, fighting a giant silver samurai, and talking with Yashida about removing Logan's immortality. That is the entirety of the movie. The fight scene on the train was even shown in the freaking trailer.
ACTING:
Hugh Jackman is his typical Wolverine character. His muscles are big, his beard full, and his Australian accent nonexistent. He plays Wolverine well as he has in all of the X-Men movies, so I won't belabor any analysis of his performance.
The leading ladies of the film, Markio and Yukio, are played by actresses with very limited previous movie experience. Both of them deliver adequate performances and fill their characters well.
Overall, the acting was fine in the movie. Viper's actress Svetlana Khodchenkova (Russian much?) plays the over the top psychotic villain. Her character very much reminded me of Poison Ivy from the Batman world and the 1997 movie Batman & Robin which had one of the most star studded casts of any super hero movie.
TAKEAWAYS:
Save yourself two hours and watch the 2 minute trailer to understand the entirety of this movie. The character's actions have zero motivation behind them. How this movie moved through the script is beyond me. How hard can it possibly be to make a good Wolverine movie? His character is so solid. He has mental issues that as a director you could dive into and make Batman-like. There are also a lot of really cool villains in the X-Men universe to play opposite the Wolverine. Bottom line: DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE.
RATING:
The film gets 0/5 Chuck Norris thumbs ups.