Okay, but not one of the best X-men movies

Rating: 7/10 (3 August 2013)

I was sort of wondering whether this film was set between X-Men Origins and the first X-men movie but it seems that it was actually set after The Last Stand (which is probably why Gene was making an appearance). However it is interesting to suggest that Gene and Logan had an affair because it does not seem that it had occurred in the movies, namely because after Scott Summers died Gene Grey pretty much went mad with power, though it is the case that Logan was the one that eventually killed her, and it was with her claws.
The film begins with Logan trapped in a hole in a Japanese POW camp and manages to survive the nuclear blast, along with a single Japanese officer. This was a little odd because in X-men Origins we was fighting on the beaches of Normandy with his brother, and had been with his brother until the mid-sixties, but here he is alone and on the opposite side of the world (though it is possible for him to get over there in the time between Normandy and Nagasaki).
Basically the Japanese officer who he saved has become a very powerful corporate boss and invites Logan over to Japan to say farewell to him before he dies, however it turns out that he has a much more sinister plan at work, though this is not revealed until later in the film because the film seems to try to create a mysterious world of plots and counter plots, and also muddying the waters as to who the bad guy is and who isn't. Mind you, I suspected that the old man hadn't died because the mutant who has the power to see people's death says 'strange, I didn't see his death'. It became pretty clear after that that the old man hadn't died.
This was an okay movie, and a reasonable addition to the X-men movie (though continuity is a bit of a problem, though it is not a massive reboot). Unlike the other movies, there are only three other mutants in this film, the girl who can see people's deaths, Viper, and the Silver Samurai (which isn't strictly a mutant because the person who is the Silver Samurai was not born with any superpowers). It also, as is expected with Marvel movies of late, that after the initial credits there is an introduction to the next movie in the series, which seems to have a resurrected Professor X and a Magneto who has his powers back.