Not a good action movie, but...

Rating: 6/10 (24 July 2013)

...at least I could enjoy Japan, the cute and the beautiful girl, a really fantastic train fight scene, the play of Hugh Jackman* and partly the background story.
Unluckily director Mangold is not the right guy for that kind of movie. He seems to be more the character guy, not the action one. Although there is quite a lot potential for amazing fight scenes, what he makes out of it is more like a storm in a bathtub, than a hurricane. But as already mentioned except the train scene! Usually I just need the right amount of action (for example Transformers is too much for me), but this movie is lacking too much. Even an unsure and insecure, broken and lost Wolverine Jackman can't make up for this.
In the beginning you see a depressed Wolverine/Logan, that gives some new insight. If you like Japan, you can find a lot of truth in the second part, shortcut, but somehow realistic. The climatic fighting scene in the last act on the other hand has the usual sci-fi/fantasy touch and is just silly and boring.
To sum it up: This movie has good intentions, some good scenes, but is like the Japanese Alps: Up and down, up and down. If you don't watch it, you have nothing missed.
*compared to other superhero actors, but he looses to "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr.