One reviewer's point of view

Rating: 3/10 (2 October 2015)

A true story.
The year is 2015 and one of the local movie channels recently ran this film.
So I watched, thinking this must be one of the series films that I missed...? And I watched and I watched and I watched.
And by the very last scene, when Wolverine walks off into the sunset (literally) I realized that I had in fact seen this when it first came out and EXACTLY like Jackman's character in this wretched film, I had suppressed the memory because the experience was so traumatic.
How bad is this film? Well if you are teaching a film class you could use it as a clinic for how NOT to write a script.
With the sole exception of an "action" scene about 45 mins in -- where the Wolverine gets serious about mayhem and the viewer is caught up in the contagion of the moment -- this is a film that starts weak and just gets weaker.
There is no character to identify with. There is no one you would want to have a drink with when the film is over. There is no audience connection. There are no triumphs, only progressive losses.
I am going to end the review here and try to forget the film ... again. If you have not seen it, as your faithful scribe, I suggest you watch X-Men I instead. It is not merely better. It is 100X better.