There’s no doubt that Jackman’s got a great way with the action – there’s plenty of it by the way, and it’s thrillingly staged – and that he can also have a great way with the witty dialogue and one-liners if only they’ve given him a bit more polished wit and funny one-liners to chew on. It’s hard now to imagine that he was a last-minute replacement for a hapless Dougray Scott, who had to bow out when filming on Mission: Impossible II over-ran in 2000. Yes, fine, Jackman’s ultra-fit, inhabiting The Wolverine so much, so far and so deeply by now that he’s beginning actually to look wolverine. Now 44, Jackman spends most of the movie showing off his gym-fit physique: he’s got no rubber suits to hide under and hasn’t got any CGI to help him out, body wise. But those who like their comic-book movies Christopher Nolan serious are going to be in for a treat. Some will miss the X-Men movie characters, maybe, along with the American setting and the camper, jokier tone. He’s done that for sure in The Wolverine. Hugh Jackman says he wanted to ditch all the old characters and go to a new place and tell an entirely different kind of story with a darker tone. There in Japan, for the first time, and not the last, he loses his super powers, his big metal claws that is, that have hitherto pretty much made him invulnerable and invincible. Well, I don’t really know, but The Wolverine has gone to modern-day Japan, summoned by an old acquaintance we see him meeting years ago in the film’s prologue. The Wolverine *** (2013, Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto) – Movie Review
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