The Wolverine
When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.
24 December 1972, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
27 May 1993, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
10 December 1984, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
22 May 1985, Chiba, Japan
15 November 1958, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
15 March 1977, Okinawa, Japan
5 November 1964, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
1 October 1972, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
25 May 1939, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
20 April 1946, Tokyo, Japan
June 24, 2016
Recite the following using Arnold's accent: 'Hugh is beeg! He has got striations, vascularity, and pectoral shelves!'August 09, 2013
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 ...July 26, 2013
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.June 22, 2016
The Wolverine does hold great potential, but its best elements are underdeveloped.July 14, 2016
The Wolverine is at its best when it deals with Logan's internal struggles and helps return fans of the franchise to the modern day.July 14, 2015
Japan seems valued more for its scenery and costumes than anything having to do with its character.July 29, 2013
Getting [Wolverine] to the movie's above-average finale required three writers - Christopher McQuarrie, Mark Bomback, and Scott Frank - to pad the plot.July 01, 2016
Wonky closing chapter aside, there's enough in The Wolverine that I find myself preferring it to all of the comic book pictures we've seen so far this year.April 17, 2016
This kind of clinical, halfhearted filmmaking is why superhero fatigue is as real as ever.July 26, 2013
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.June 22, 2016
Where's the coiled, fuming, cigar-chomping, sarcastic quip-firing killing machine from the first two X-Men movies? I want that guy back. He was fun.July 26, 2013
It 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.