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Summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, Wolverine becomes embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.
It's been years since we last saw what Logan has been up to. This movie takes place after the events of X-Men 3: The Last Stand (2006). After he was forced to kill Jean Grey to save the world, Logan became a hermit and gave up "being a soldier." Unfortunately, when you happen to be a mutant with fast healing, and therefore immortality, trouble comes to seek YOU out. During WW2 Logan saved the life of a Japanese soldier, named Yashida, at Nagasaki who, at the end of his life, wants to repay Logan with the gift of mortality. Logan declines and the rest of the movie is a roller coaster of action.
I'll be honest, I wasn't always the biggest collector of comic books but I did work in a store in which one of my duties was to return magazines and comic books. During that time I remember many covers of, was it Weapon X? was it Wolverine? I dunno, but they showed up on the screen. This movie was based on Wolverine's adventures in Japan against the ninjas and the Silver Samurai. While I didn't read those issues, the images are still with me. For instance, when the ninjas took down Wolverine with the arrows, that was a comic book cover.
The casting was perfect. Everyone was great at the role given. I think the only character I have any problem with was THE VIPER played by Svetlana Khodchenkova. She was beautiful and her screen presence was slick an sexy, but her accents weren't consistent. I don't know if that was intentional of not, but it was a bit of a distraction for me.
The rest of the cast? Perfect. Plot? Perfect. Script? Perfect. Character development? Perfect. This was just a well made comic book movie holding fairly consistent WITH this comic books.
Well done and worth seeing despite many pseudo-intellectual reviewers saying that there's nothing new here. It's taking an episode of Wolverine lore and deftly putting it on the big screen! Don't forget to sit through the credits. There's an extra scene setting the scene for the next X-Men movie.
More on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/?ref_=hm_cht_t1
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