The Wolverine is a great return to the older X-Men films we fell in love with (X-Men and X-Men 2) and begins connecting the dots for X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2013)

I had very low expectations walking into the theater with my daughter to watch The Wolverine. After X-Men The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine I was expecting an action film that left me longing for a great X-Men film. My reservations toward the Wolverine are completely valid after they killed my dreams of Deadpool on film. I'm happy to say, the Wolverine didn't let me down.
The action within the film is good and you see Wolverine moving how you expect him to move and acting like the character we love from the Marvel comics and the story was really good and made sense within the X-Men universe. The characters felt worked out and believable throughout most of the film.
The only character I wasn't very happy with was Svetlana Khodchenkova acting ability as Viper. Every line she spoke felt fake and forced. The sense you get from her in the film is simply "I'm pretty, I'm sexy, I can say words and you'll love me." That attempt in acting didn't connect her to the rest of the cast or with the audience.
Luckily, Hugh Jackson saves the film from Svetlana's bad acting. He displayed a very complex and intense side of the Wolverine that we have seen glimpses of within in the other X-Men films but really came out within the full length of the film.