No one does The Wolverine better than Hugh Jackman. NO ONE. Even if you are bulked up like Hugh Jackman, you can't pull off the look. Why? Because, only Hugh Jackman can pull off The Wolverine and still look hot for the ladies and like the Marvel comic book superhero that he is to the guys. Ok...so maybe Liev Schreiber could pull off the look too, but they never casted him as The Wolverine (he was casted as his brother, Sabretooth).
The Wolverine begins where X-Men 3 left off...life without Jean Gray. For those who've forgotten...at the end of X-Men 3, Wolverine was forced to choose...save the woman he loved or save everyone from being destroyed by the woman he loved. He chose to protect the world. He had to kill the one woman he loved more than anything.
The Wolverine is life after Jean Gray and Logan trying to live with knowing he had killed the woman he loved. Where do we find him as we start our story? Living like a hermit in a cave.
A young woman from Tokyo (Yukio) goes looking for Logan because her employer wants to repay him for a debt. Logan saved her employer's life back on August 9, 1945...the day the Americans dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki. He tried to repay Logan by giving him his family's ancestral sword. Instead of taking the sword, he tells the young soldier, Yashida, that he should look after the sword for him.
Yashida has sent this young woman to find Logan so that he can give him the sword and say his goodbyes. He's dying. He offers to give Logan something he's never had before...a mortal life. He could have his immortality taken from him so that he could live out the rest of his life and die. This appeals to Logan (to a degree). He could, after all, be with Jean Gray again.
Yashida was able to have his company develop a technology that could transfer Logan's immortality to himself. Logan isn't so sure about transferring his immortality to someone else. It's a curse, not a gift. Yashida, an old, dying man, disagrees.
What Logan does not expect is that his ability to heal and his immortality would be taken from him (not at his will). He wakes to discover Yashida is dead and that something is wrong.
Before Yashida died, he told Logan that his grand-daughter was in danger. He wanted to live to protect her. Being the honorable man that Logan is, when danger arose, his only mission was to protect Yashida's grand-daughter and try to discover who was after her and why.
In the spirit of X-Men films, you will enjoy this one just as much as the others. I don't think there's ever been a bad X-Men film. The storylines are always great with a great cast of characters.
I really loved the introduction of Yukio. She reminds me of one of the girl ninja assassins from the Kill Bill films. She could be just an innocent regular Japanese school girl...or she could be one of the best ninja assassins in Japan. What I really love about her: she decides that she is Wolverine's bodyguard. Like he ever needed a bodyguard...apparently, in this movie, he does. Wolverine is always trying to protect some innocent person. He's never had someone watching out for him before. That's what I love about Yukio. She's that damn good that she can protect The Wolverine.
The movie is out in theaters now. If you're an X-Men fan, you'll enjoy this just as much as the other films. After all, I think many of us have loved Wolverine ever since we picked up our first X-Men comic book.
And yes, I do have a comic book collection.
xxoo,
Michelle
P.S. Be on the lookout for X-Men: Days of Future Past due out May 23, 2014. This film is the second installment in the X-Men: First Class trilogy.
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