The Wolverine (2013)
4/10
Terrible, an embarrassment to the actual Wolverine
17 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
MINOR SPOILERS CONTAINED! NOT MAJOR PLOT CHANGING SPOILERS!

It surprises me that Wolverine fans enjoyed this movie, which means these are fans that were made from the movies and not comic books or cartoons. If you've seen the past X-Men movies, this movie is utter embarrassment in front of X-men and X-Men 2. Throughout the series, plot holes appear from nowhere making the word sense not a word in the dictionary anymore.

This contains MINOR SPOILERS, which will not give away the very main plot.

The plot in this movie is quite poor. It is all action an effects again. Logan is on a runaway journey after the events from 'X-Men 3: The Last Stand', he is disturbed and depressed. He then gets himself into some trouble, this is basically it. We see someone refereed as "Viper," who is actual MADAM HYDRA from the comics, once again a known character has been tampered, changed, and ended up looking terrible. For those hyped for the Silver Samurai, prepared to be disappointed, as he is only in the last 10 - 20 minutes of the movie. Prepare to be even more disappointed that Silver Samurai is A ROBOT, and not a man in an actual samurai armor, but a man in a giant robot.

This movie is also rich in plot holes. One plot hole in particular really annoyed me. Now we all know when Wolverine unleashes his claws, it cuts the skin between his knuckles but get regenerated thanks to his advanced healing factor. Now in the movie, Wolverine loses his healing factor, he'll get shot and stabbed and be wounded with band-aids and antiseptic. However, he still unleashes his claws in a fight, so theoretically he's suppose to bleed endlessly once the claws come out because THE SKIN IS CUT, yet in the movie he brings them out and puts them in like old times with his healing factor, which HE LOST in this movie, temporarily of course. Note, in X-Men 1 near the beginning of the movie, Rogue asks Wolverine if it pains when the claws come out, and Wolverine replied that it always hurts but the wound gets healed very fast.

This poor plot movie is masked with some okay action sequences, and lame comical humor (there are few funny ones), can be compared to Michael Bay's Transformers or James Cameron's Avatar, all action and graphics yet no or a very bad story. This movie is an insult to fans of the character.

There is an after-credit of the movie which honestly is better than the entire film. It's a lead up to X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014). 'The Wolverine' was terrible, end of review.
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