The Wolverine (2013)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 205
Fresh: 141 | Rotten: 64
Although its final act succumbs to the usual cartoonish antics, The Wolverine is one superhero movie that manages to stay true to the comics while keeping casual viewers entertained.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 16
Although its final act succumbs to the usual cartoonish antics, The Wolverine is one superhero movie that manages to stay true to the comics while keeping casual viewers entertained.
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Movie Info
Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine in this sequel to the member of the X-Men's first solo outing. Mark Bomback and The Usual Suspects' Christopher McQuarrie penned the script, which takes its inspiration from the Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Marvel miniseries from the 1980s dealing with the character's adventures in Japan as he fights ninjas in the ceremonial garb of the samurai. Knight and Day's James Mangold directs. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
Cast
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Hugh Jackman
Logan -
Tao Okamoto
Mariko -
Rila Fukushima
Yukio -
Hiroyuki Sanada
Shingen -
Svetlana Khodchenkov...
Viper -
Brian Tee
Noburo -
Hal Yamanouchi
Yashida -
Will Yun Lee
Harada -
Ken Yamamura
Young Yashida -
Famke Janssen
Jean Grey -
Saverio Di Biagio
Security -
Francisco Payó Gonzá...
Servant -
Shinji Ikefuji
Pock-Face -
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Nobuaki Kakuda
Buddhist Priest -
Yu Shao-Kang
Old Woman -
Andrew G. Cesana
Fruit Cart Vendor -
Conrad Coleby
Red Beard -
Taris Tyler
Bar Man (Red Beard's... -
Bela B. Felsenheimer
Yukon Bar Patron -
Necie Owens
Man Near Bar, Yukon ... -
Barbara Pindar Smith
Yukon Bar Patron -
Allan Popple
Yukon Bar Patron -
Geoff Burke
Bartender -
Yasuyo Shiba
Reporter 1 -
Mani Bhattacharjee
Reporter 2 -
Sylvain Arsenta
Mieko -
Steven Milligan
Hitoshi -
Tom Wilson, Sr.
Party Girl 1 -
Gonzalo Calzada
Party Girl 2 -
Henry Miller
Cashier -
Jason R. Goode
Japanese Businessman -
Johnny Shroyer
Tower Guard -
Kuni Hashimoto
Lead Officer -
Erich Chikashi-Linzb...
Senior Officer at PO... -
Shingo Usami
Driver -
Naoya Ogawa
Yakuza 1 -
Lilian Benson
Yakuza 2 -
Takashi Matsuyama
Yakuza 3 -
Masa Yamaguchi
Yakuza 4 -
Eric Laciste
Yakuza 5 -
Alexandre Iglesias
Yakuza 6 -
Garret Sato
Dying Yakuza -
Feroz Khan
Army Officer 1 -
Yoji Tatsuta
Army Officer 2 -
Yoshinori Fukushige
Train Commuter -
Jason, Bovenzi
Yashida Security Gua... -
Yumiko Nakamura
Mariko Staff -
David Conley
Saki -
Keiko Matsumoto
Shizu -
Louis Okada
Pat Down Guy
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All Critics (205) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (141) | Rotten (64)
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 ...
Top CriticIt 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.
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.
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.
Mangold front-loads the action, but near the end there's a first-rate fight atop a bullet train between Wolverine/Logan and some especially pesky ninjas. It puts the train fights in the recent The Lone Ranger to shame.
Just as comic-book movie fatigue was starting to set in, along comes The Wolverine to revive a moribund summer of superheroes.
Ultimately, this is Jackman's film, and he plays the reluctant but fearsome hero perfectly.
Moderadamente eficaz, mas não deixa de ser sintomático que sua melhor cena seja aquela que surge apenas durante os créditos finais.
...the movie simply doesn't have anything interesting or relevant to say about the iconic Marvel character.
Slick, entertaining, super-hero thrill ride, the only quibbles are its length - every big film these days seems to be 20 minutes too long - and its 3D conversion. Really, it's another example of the marginal difference that process often makes.
A superior, even adult Marvel Comics adaptation that plays almost like a straight gangster/yakuza thriller for much of its length, until the obligatory climactic superhero/supervillain dust-up.
For all the up and down The Wolverine is definitely more up than down more of the time... It still doesn't feel like the definitive adventure for the character, but there's potential for the character still.
The Wolverine can proudly take its place with most of the rest of its comic book brethren this summer - high atop the mountain of the Massively OK.
The movie contemplates Logan's existential dilemma for all of two seconds before getting to the slashing and bashing.
Clawing Thriller
a murky and muddled thing saved, such as it is, by Hugh Jackman's steadfast commitment
a man's mute, impotent melancholy and the many females around him engaged in the maintenance of their separate, disintegrating orbits.
After 2009′s bland X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it's refreshing to see Hugh Jackman inhabit the character in a movie that actually understands his inner conflict.
...its not the definitive Wolverine film that we had been promised. (Video Review)
The Wolverine is surprisingly dour and uneventful, at least by the carnage-n-claptrap standards of modern superhero movies
Much of the reason Wolverine has become everyone's favorite Canadian mutant is because, despite his origins in the Marvel Universe, he doesn't act much like a superhero.
It's Hugh's movie, and he's in formidable form, whether chatting with the dead Jean Grey, skewering multiple baddies, clinging to a bullet train's roof or performing seriously ouchy auto-surgery.
... a holdover to distract us from what we've been craving all along... it's still better than the last Wolverine sorta-solo outing, so there's that.
The standout moment is when Logan gets to grips with an assailant atop a hurtling bullet train. Fights on the roofs of speeding trains are a cinematic cliché, but the giddying velocity of the Japanese train gives the scene a uniquely thrilling momentum.
The very definition of a 'good enough' film... But 'good enough' is better by far than 'not good enough'.
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- Yukio: And then where?
- Logan: We'll see.
- Yukio: Interesting.
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- Logan: What are you doing here?
- Yukio: I'm your body guard remember. They said the can take us anywhere. Where would you like to go?
- Logan: Let's start with up.
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- Mariko: Please stay.
- Logan: I'm sorry, I'm a soldier and I've been hiding for too long.
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- Yukio: Logan I saw you dying!
- Logan: I don't have time for this shit!
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- Logan: Pretending that shit isn't happening around you when it is a good way to get yourself killed princess believe I've done it before.
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- Logan: Go fuck yourself, pretty boy.
Discussion Forum
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| tomato meter guess anyone? | 2 months ago | 67 |
| Jeremy Jahns should be a top critic on RT | 6 days ago | 57 |
| Quite possibly the worst poster I've ever seen. | 2 months ago | 29 |
| Another wolverine movie? | 2 months ago | 25 |
| Favorite Character from Xmen | 52 days ago | 24 |
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