Does Wolverine wear bomb proof pants?

Rating: 6/10 (14 October 2018)

The Wolverine
2013's The Wolverine is a much improvement over the characters first solo outing.
Having James Mangold onboard to direct was a very good idea indeed.
However it is obvious when he took the juicy bait to helm such a project those bean counters at 20th Century Fox reeled him back in.
So rather than making the movie Mangold and Jackman probably wanted to make, what we got was yet another PG13 child friendly movie.
As we see here you can't make a movie about a violent character without showing any violence.
Fox only rectified their continuing mistake with Mangold's second stab the superb 2017's Logan.
Hugh Jackman returns once again, strapping on the claws to play Logan in an adventure that takes him to Japan.
Here he loses his healing ability and when he is forced to protect the granddaughter of an old acquaintance things aren't as easy as they usually are for our indestructible hero.
The Wolverine has flashes of brilliance but it also has some flashes of utter stupidness mixed in.
A rather entertaining movie that is spoiled by the ridiculous third act.
There's also some obvious questions that are raised that make the plot of the movie just down right silly.
Like if Wolvie has lost his ability to heal quickly why are there no wounds around his knuckles.
Surely the amount of time he keeps using his Adamantium claws he would just bleed to death.
How can he even function anymore when his now mortal body is laced with a poisonous metal. (In Logan, the Adamantium is deemed the cause of his deterioration.)
Another question that needs asking. Does Logan wear bomb proof pants?
Well he does take the full force of an atomic bomb and his flesh heals from the blast. However his undercrackers are completely unscathed?
The Wolverine is littered with such niggles.
I'm a huge fan of the X-Men movies and I consider Logan to be one of if not best superhero movie of all time.
This movie, The Wolverine seems to be a warm up, a practice run for James Mangold. Either that or he and Jackman demanded they make their own movie with Logan and not have those bean counters interfering.
If you're going to watch this film seek out the unleashed and extended cut.
It goes some way to improve the movie but it is still marred with the computer game Boss ending and there's no blood and gore. It's still watered down Wolvie but it has some nicely extended action sequences.
The fight with the ninjas springing to mind.
In terms of image quality, The Wolverine looks stunning on Blu-ray and 3D.
Sound is also very good. You can hear the Snikt! of those claws in glorious HD sound.
Special effects are mostly good apart from the ending with the stupid Silver samurai scene.
The Wolverine is a above average outing for the worlds most popular X-Man , not enough to give the fans what they need.
Good job there's Logan for that then