The Wolverine
This is... not a good movie. It's not a horrible movie, but I felt sad for some of the stuff in it which just felt out of place. There were a mess of weird gunfights in the movie, which was presaged by seeing a lot of guys openly carrying submachine guns outside a temple in Tokyo. Yeah, I know I'm complaining about realism in a movie about a guy who can regenerate himself, and pops claws out of his hands. It was just oddly jarring to see so much stuff done right, and still get so many big things wrong. There's a lot of stuff that just doesn't make sense; on the run, Wolverine gets them to a discreet location to hide, and then they just decide to go to her home and not-hide, which was what they said they wouldn't do. There are lots of things like that; Mariko barely escapes being bulleted to death, and she says "I can take care of myself from here" at a crowded train station. Wat? Has she missed the creepy characters who have been following them and shooting at them the whole time? Is she bulletproof, secretly?
I didn't like the Venom or Viper, or whatever the other mutant was supposed to be. The woman playing Mariko does a fair job, but she is cursed with writing which has her character acting in a self-contradicting manner. Yukio is pretty awesome, both as a character and just as a presence. My son really liked her; he thought she was the best character in the movie. Hugh Jackman has got Wolverine down pat, and I don't think I can get tired of seeing him in the role, but I hope the next installment is smarter.
Overall, it was better than the 2nd half of the other X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, but still not a good movie in itself. Meh?
