Satisfactorily awesome, but not plain awesome.

Rating: 7/10 (5 September 2013)

I thought I would wait for The Wolverine to come out on DVD before I watched it. But, I went to the theater with my friends and this was the best option. I wish I had waited. The movie is not a superhero movie that's very representative of the brilliant big screen flicks such as The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers. In short, it could have been better. A couple of things got to me. One being the lack of subtitles during the Japanese dialogues. There was plenty of it and the viewer only understood what was said once Logan asked a bilingual what the words meant. In my mind, subtitles were necessary. Although, to be fair, if the translation was not there, the viewer would be forced to assume that Logan knows Japanese. And that's just hogwash. Additionally, if Wolverine's body heals a lot faster than other mortals, doesn't logic dictate he would not need to sleep? Not sleeping would cause his body to break down, but it would heal anyway. On the upside, there was plenty of comedy to accompany the bad assness of Logan. I would not say this was a badly made film by a long shot; just sub par to what seems to be the expectation from superhero movies. Watched 08/20/2013, written 09/05/2013.