Rated PG-13
Running time: 126 Minutes
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In Twentieth-Century Fox/Marvel Entertainment's The Wolverine, mutant hermit Wolverine - Hugh Jackman - is brought out of isolation by Rila Fukushima to have her industrialist employer dying from cancer Hal Yamanouchi reward Jackman for saving Yamanouchi's life years ago during WWII.
In a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand - featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, and based on the 1982 limited series Wolverine by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller - Producer and Star Jackman/Wolverine is being tormented by hallucinations and has secluded himself in the woods as a result. When Fukushima locates him, Jackman reluctantly goes with her to Japan and gets immersed into the Japanese samurai/ronin culture as he gets involved in protecting Yamanouchi's granddaughter Tao Okamoto from deadly Yakuza samurai.
I liked that they covered the Japanese culture in this X-Men Origins movie like they have had covered in the comic book and that the wild man Jackman struggles to be a part of the Japanese culture. Jackman is also a fan of the comic book and the Japanese saga and you can see this fandom of the book being used in the movie. You see Jackman in action as The Wolverine which was pretty awesome with his admantium claws and mutant healing ability, even if he does get his ass kicked sometimes. Having four strong women in the film, including Svetlana Khodchenkova, and Wolverine/Jackman's relationships with them in the movie is great.
Comic book creator and Executive Producer Stan Lee does not have his typical cameo in this movie, but there is a bottle of whiskey named Stanley's Whiskey. This is the first X-Men film to be released in 3D and IMAX. The film was scheduled to be released in Japan in mid-September out of respect for the August anniversaries of the nuclear attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of which Nagasaki has prominent scenes in the movie. I would have preferred the Silver Samurai to be of human size than of giant robot size.
At the end of the movie during the end credits, there is a scene which refers to the next movie X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Rated PG-13 for violence, language, sexual situations. Running time: 126 Minutes.
Pancho
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