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The Wolverine
Following the events of the World War II, immortal and lonely Wolf Man warrior has not been to Japan ever since, but now he is lured back and pushed to his physical and emotional brink when he is forced to go on the run with a powerful industrialist's daughter.
22 March 1971, Arlington, Virginia, USA
15 November 1958, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
5 November 1964, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
21 January 1983, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
2 April 1960, Tokyo, Japan
July 01, 2016
Wonky closing chapter aside, there's enough in The Wolverine that I find myself preferring it to all of the comic book pictures we've seen so far this year.June 22, 2016
The Wolverine does hold great potential, but its best elements are underdeveloped.July 26, 2013
Director James Mangold's film features some breathtakingly suspenseful action sequences, exquisite production and costume design and colorful characters, some of whom register more powerfully than others.April 17, 2016
This kind of clinical, halfhearted filmmaking is why superhero fatigue is as real as ever.July 14, 2016
The Wolverine is at its best when it deals with Logan's internal struggles and helps return fans of the franchise to the modern day.June 22, 2016
Where's the coiled, fuming, cigar-chomping, sarcastic quip-firing killing machine from the first two X-Men movies? I want that guy back. He was fun.August 09, 2013
It's a relief to come across a blockbuster that finds a location and stays there, rather than hopping desperately from one place to the next ...June 24, 2016
Recite the following using Arnold's accent: 'Hugh is beeg! He has got striations, vascularity, and pectoral shelves!'July 26, 2013
Too quickly the random fights pile up -- so many yakuza thugs who forgot to wear chain mail that morning -- and you yearn for the film that might have been.July 29, 2013
Getting [Wolverine] to the movie's above-average finale required three writers - Christopher McQuarrie, Mark Bomback, and Scott Frank - to pad the plot.July 14, 2015
Japan seems valued more for its scenery and costumes than anything having to do with its character.July 26, 2013
It restores the tarnished lustre to this most fan-beloved of Marvel characters by doing precisely what Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's near-sacred 1982 run did: It pumps some feeling into the guy along with his muscles and steel talons.