The Wolverine

So, just to round off the collection so far we turn our gaze towards a solely Hugh Jackman based film. Most of us will have seen X-men Origins:Wolverine and most of us will agree that it really wasn't worth the effort, so where could they go with this film? It's still not as good as the first x-men film but it is much better than the prequel of the trilogy.
Explaining something else from his past that until now had never been mentioned but was probably in the comics, Wolverine takes a trip to Tokyo and there the entire film (pretty much) is shot.
The scenery is wonderful, it does kinda make you want to go to Tokyo, unfortunately it is a place that i will never venture out to.
The introduction of Viper is brilliant. A relatively unknown Russian woman pulls off being american very easily. From the moment she entered the film i turned to my brother and said... she's evil and i wasn't wrong- i just couldn't guess what her powers were going to be.
Her costume reminds you very much of Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy in the Batman and Robin with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In fact, if she was modelling herself on Poison Ivy that she did a really good job. The characters can be compared in several ways and personally i don't think that this is a bad thing.

This film was more simple than the first one. It had a plot and it stuck to it. It had characters and it stuck to it- nothing complicated, just well written but not confusing in any way. The simplicity is what makes it a good film. Nothing fancy was done with the cameras and nothing fancy was done in the directing of the film, strip it down to the bone and let it be what it is which is very refreshing to see.

Rating- much better than the first one and even better than Days of Future Past.