Immortality and Healing Power

Rating: 8/10 (10 November 2013)

Logan (Hugh Jackman) has become a hermit, living in the woods alone and haunted by nightmares with Jean Grey (Famke Janssen). One day, the Japanese girl Yukio (Rila Fukushima) that is skilled with a samurai sword visits Logan and tells that her grandfather, the powerful businessman Yashida (Haruhiko Yamanouchi), is dying and wants to see him for the last time before dying. Yashida was a Japanese soldier that Logan saved the life in Nagasaki in the World War II.
Logan travels Japan with Yukio and the moribund Yashida offers mortality to Logan, transferring his gift to him, but Logan does not accept the offer. While sleeping, Logan has a weird dream with Yashida's doctor Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) and soon Yashida dies. Logan stays for the funeral and the Yakuza tries to abduct Yashida's granddaughter Mariko (Tao Okamoto) during the ceremony. Logan saves and flees with Mariko, but he is shot and does not heel the wounds. Logan protects Mariko and tries to find what has happened to him.
"The Wolverine" is a great action movie, with Logan facing the lost of his immortality and healing power. The story has many holes, but maybe the worst are the complicated plan of Yashida to steal Logan's powers since Logan could have been killed while protecting Mariko (wouldn't be much easier to drug him in Yashida's house and bring him to the fortress to get his powers?), and Viper's motivation since it is not clear whether she is plotting the scheme for herself or for Yashida. But the movie entertains and does not disappoint at all. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Wolverine Immortal" ("Immortal Wolverine")