Summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, Wolverine becomes embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.
Overlong, overserious, and overplotted, this is a sharp-clawed but dull-witted Wolverine.
Heroes wander in, heroes wander out. Wolverine – the indestrucible centrepiece of the buffet's spread – isn't waning, but our interest is.
An improvement on the last outing for Jackman’s not-so-merry mutant. If only it trusted enough in its unique setting to forgo a descent into aggressively awful formula.
A brief but dynamic bullet-train sequence apart, The Wolverine is remarkable only for making its ponderous origins story look lively in comparison.
The Wolverine should please fans and has a good shot at winning over sceptics.
The one good line, after Wolverine tosses a villain over a balcony into a swimming pool, is actually a steal from Diamonds Are Forever. If 20th Century Fox has its way, I very much fear Wolverine is Forever, too.
This is a big, loud, commercial picture which does not appear to have been written so much as audience-tested, global-market-researched, greenscreened and CGI-ed to within an inch of its life.
The Wolvering cometh - again.
While The Wolverine isn’t the definitive stand-alone instalment we’d hoped for, it’s a significant improvement over last time. In some ways it’s a missed opportunity and the finale is disappointingly generic, but for the most part James Mangold gets it very right.
It's loud, spectacular, dull, humourless and predictable.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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