Not Bad for a Giagin

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2013)

So after the muddled disappointing mess of X-Men Origins: Wolverine & the awesome return to form in X-Men: First Class; Wolverine returns to the screen in a bad adventure that almost doesn't seem like an X-Men movie.
The plot starts off as almost a Highlander movie with Logan feeling the pain of immortality and being offered a chance at normal life and death. It then becomes a Japanese crime thriller before turning back into a full-blown sci-fi battle to the death.
The plot works well to make us feel for Wolverine and his loss. He goes from burnt-out soldier to full-on warrior again during the story.
The Jean Grey parts work OK but they tie this movie to the blah that was X-Men: The Last Stand. And the mid-credits scene does indeed set up X-Men: Days of Future Past. So you understand why there have been no announcements about Famke Janseen, James Marsden or Rebecca Romijn in XMDOFP.
Over all the movie is not bad.