Synopsis
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
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Cast
- Hugh JackmanLogan / Wolverine
- Tao OkamotoMariko Yashida / Scarlet Samurai
- Rila FukushimaYukio / Pinkie Pie
- Hal YamanouchiIchiro Yashida / Silver Samurai
- Hiroyuki SanadaShingen Harada / Lord Shingen
- Svetlana KhodchenkovaMadame Hydra / Viper
- Will Yun LeeHarada
- Brian TeeNoburo Mori
- Ken YamamuraYoung Yashida
- Famke JanssenJean Grey / Phoenix
Recommendations
- 80
Variety
The Wolverine boasts one of the best pulp-inspired scripts yet. It’s still full of corny dialogue...but there’s a genuine elegance to the way it establishes Logan’s tortured condition and slowly brings the character around to recovering his heroic potential, methodically setting up and paying off ideas as it unfolds. - 75
The A.V. Club
Now here’s a comic-book movie. In a summer that’s delivered one overstuffed Phase Two sequel and a bloated reboot designed to establish a whole new universe of interconnected franchises, The Wolverine has a self-contained efficiency that’s hard to resist. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
This Wolverine gets our hopes up, and falls short. - 63
Slant Magazine
This may be the year's best superhero movie because, for a sufficient amount of time, it doesn't feel like a superhero movie at all. - 60
Total Film
It’s a step up from the garbled silliness of Wolverine’s first solo outing. Unlike Origins, the storytelling is more sharply focused here, ignited by flashes of stylised superheroism. - 60
Empire
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. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Until a third act that collapses in a harebrained heap, the director largely succeeds in keeping the more cartoonish aspects at bay, roughing up the surface with organically staged fight scenes and, crucially, raising the stakes by stripping his hitherto indestructible hero of his self-healing powers. - 40
The Telegraph
The previous X-Men film, First Class, was secure enough in its own skin to embrace its comic side. Mangold’s picture affects a pubescent snarl instead: that’s the difference between comic and daft.
