A Worthy X-Men film

Rating: 7/10 (10 November 2013)

The previous film 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' left everyone very disappointed (including me) and almost ruined the franchise so they had to make an effort with this one to get the fans back on-board. 'The Wolverine' is certainly a much better film where they put the story more than the action and VFX in front. It's a sequel to X3 (where the X-Men disbanded) in which Logan struggles with is immortality and ends up getting involved with a Japanse company promising him to relieve him of this burden. The story and character centric approach does mean that the pace is much slower and sometimes they spend just too much time on the characters without really adding much depth. Cutting 15 to 20 mins out of this 138 min movie would certainly have helped. The action sequences we do get are well done with excellent VFX and they do try to be inventive and show some stuff we haven't seen before. Altogether a worthy X-Men film but not the best in series. BTW at the end of the film there is a short scene with Xavier and Magneto which sets us up for 'X-Men: Days of Future Past', a film of which expect allot more and which hopefully will be the best in the series, the trailers look interesting to say the least :)