Logan trips on acid, fights the Yakuza & Ninjas, catches yellow fever

Rating: 7/10 (30 July 2013)

I love the X-Men movies. The first three were endearing and fun movies with spectacular set- pieces, fun character interaction, and classic stories. I even liked Wolverine's Origin movie for what it was, though I understand why it let down so many fans.
But mostly, I love Logan the immortal Wolverine, the hopeless romantic, the loner, the leader, and the unstoppable hero.
I had such unwarranted, high expectations for this movie that I was bound to be let down, and I hold literally nothing against the rest of the series, but this one felt like a cop-out.
A safe little one-off campaign to whet our appetites, to reverse the damage from "Origins".
The characters are bland and boring. There are only maybe 5 main characters, being generous, and that's a Japanese family and Logan. I don't remember any mutant powers besides the archer.
Half the movie was zoom-in shots of each character's face, pointless and awkwardly paced- It didn't even feel like an X-Men movie. And a carnal sin of comic-book movies, it was frequently boring and slow!
Half of the movie is Logan having dreams of Jean Grey, again and again, very boring.
Wolverine takes down literally EVERY opponent in the movie in one swing of his claws. One! Every time! The whole, "make you mortal" plot line didn't go Anywhere!!! Nothing Effing Happened!
There were two decent fight scenes. The train scene, which honestly was kinda stupid, and the final battle which was a let-down in too many ways.
I haven't read this story, but it was a great idea and instead it feels like a one-off Japanese Wolverine movie. It's like Fox out-sourced the movie to some Japanese production company who just had no idea what to do with the material.
Dialogue blows, fighting is boring, characters are weak the only mutant powers on display are Logan's "slower" regeneration and a guy with perfect aim and a crossbow. And the scene where that girl cuts the barstool and the glass with the sword are the ONLY times sword-play is used effectively.
Days of Future Past, I'm counting on you