The Wolverine

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This is in a way another origin story. It tells us the origin of Wolverine's ties with Japan.
Logan or Wolverine) has been unable to feel guilty after killing Jean Grey, and now lives in a forest somewhere in the Yukon. In his sleep he experiences nightmares where  Jean grey appears and talks to him telling him to "come to him", also repressed memories of being a prisoner of war in the 1945 Japan precisely the day the atom bomb was dropped over Nagasaki. He saved the life of a young compassionate soldier, called Yashida. One day a young Japanese girl introduces herself and says her name is Yukio. She tells him that Yashida has sent her to meet him again before he dies. Feeling intrigued Logan follows Yukio. She reveals that her employer and benefactor, Yashida, runs a multinational technology corporation. Acceding to the dying Yashida's request to say goodbye to him, Logan accompanies Yukio to Japan. Unbeknown to him there will be a lot of fighting when Logan will have to protect Yashida's granddaughter, called Mariko against her own father who desires to inherit the whole company and the Yakuza fighters that will do the dirty work. There will be also other problems: Viper a mutant working for Yashida has installed inside Logan a mechanism that inhibits his healing abilities so he now does not cure so easily, plus the appearance of one of his most terrible opponents, the Silver Samurai.
The Wolverine is a film full of action scenes and romance, with nothing really new or with little information about the character. Mote than anything it is a story that somehow connects X-Men: Th Last Stand and the following installment of the franchise. And proof of that is the post credit scene where Logan appears arriving at an airport and Magneto (Ian Mac Kellen) and Professor X appearing before him to announce him that dire moments for mutant kind are approaching.
Four stars out of five for this one.

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