Thursday, 1 August 2013

The Wolverine

For a start, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine (Logan), you can always tell just from this that it'll be a great film and with the added bonus of choosing from 2D or 3D!

Its action packed and full of excitement with fist fights, sword fights, chases on the top of a speeding train and even ninja attacks. Yes, that's right, ninjas!

This film sees Logan being tracked by a young girl called Yukio, then brought back to someone who's life he had once saved many years ago, called Yashida, but sadly he is in very sick health and close to passing. In hope to live longer and protect his grand daughter he tries to make an agreement with Logan, this being that he will hand over his abilities to Yashida and lead a normal life, however Logan declines thinking he's saving the old man from something that is more trouble than it's worth.

This then takes a turn for the worse as Yashida passes away, or so the viewers are lead to believe, leaving Logan protecting Yashida's grand daughter, Mariko. During this time the two them get into several interesting situations which I won't spoil for you. Little does the pair know that it is actually Yashida himself behind the whole extreme ordeal with the help of his once seemingly normal doctor. Throughout the whole time Yukio is able to see visions of the future which makes for one very scary situation for Logan and she is also the one looking out for the Wolverine while he is looking out for Mariko.


I very much enjoyed this film and all the action it had to offer. There was, however, some annoying camera shots in my personal opinion as I'm not a fan of hand held camera movements which there is a bit of. I liked the surroundings and settings that director James Mangold used as these are each interesting themselves due to a lot of the film being set in Japan.
Anyone with a love of the X-Men films or action films in general will thoroughly enjoy this, however be sure to wait when the lights come on in the cinema as there is quite a surprise scene at the end of the credits.

Enjoy Wolverine lovers!