Delivers on Action and Suspense

Rating: 7/10 (26 January 2015)

The Wolverine (2013) is the sequel to the disappointing X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). The movie picks up some time after the events of X- Men: The Last Stand, and Wolverine has gone to live alone in the wilds of Canada, consumed with guilt after being forced to kill Jean Grey. He has promised to never hurt anyone else, but when local hunters poison a grizzly bear we see that he's barely able to keep that vow. Which is all good because a mysterious Japanese girl arrives in town and whisks him away to Tokyo, where he is reunited with a Japanese prison guard he rescued from the Nagasaki A-bomb explosion decades before.
That guard has become the most powerful and richest man in Japan, and now he is dying. He wants to thank Wolverine for saving him that day, but he also wants something else. He knows of Wolverine's secret powers, and over the last few decades he has been working on a system that will allow him to take Logan's healing factor for himself. The man, Yashida, can live forever and Wolverine will finally be given the sweet release of death. We are full aware as to what has happened and are patiently awaiting it's third film from this franchise.