Just watched The Wolverine (2013) havent seen it since it came out, and I remember enjoying it the first time around. Found myself loving it even more the 2nd time around, and that is rare for me, and an X MEN related film. I havent been a fan of the Singer X MEN Series since its inception. This film is directed by James Mangold who really did capture the proper beat, pace, and spirit of the characters better than Singer ever could. I would love to see him follow up this movie with a proper solo sequel. This is without a doubt the best in the series in my opinion, and while its not an X MEN movie! (obviously its a solo picture.) Wolverine is a member of X MEN. One other X MEN does come out in this film in flash back or dream form Jean Grey comes out. Shes Wolverines love interest as we all know from the Singer series who died in X MEN 3, and its nice to see how her death has affected Logan. The film is set in Japan which I LOVE. There is also a nice cameo at the end by Magneto, and Professor X... The storyline is pretty simple here its not very complicated but it works really well. The film start on August 9th 1945, in a WWII prison camp near Nagasaki, Japan, from a guard tower, a young Japanese officer Yashida (Ken Yamamura) watches a pair of B-29 bombers appear over tranquil Nagasaki. An air raid alarms sound and Yashida sounds an alarm and hurriedly descends from his watchtower at the POW camp. While other Japanese Officers prepare for death, Yashida quickly breaks open prison cells, freeing dozens of captured American soldiers and lastly comes to a peculiar-looking cell: what looks like a tank turret securely welded over a well, chained securely to the ground; a hyper-secure prison cell. Inside is Logan (Hugh Jackman), who (while suspended by his bone claws) watches as all the inhabitants of the camp run for their lives. Yashida cuts the chains from Logans cell and tells him to run. Each Japanese officer kneels in line and ritualistically commit seppuku (ritual suicide) Yashida cannot bring himself immediately to die. As he prepares, Logan stops him. Yashida ultimately watches the bomb fall from one of the bombers, and Nagasaki is consumed by a massive fireball. Yashida tells Logan to escape, but Logan tells Yashida to climb down into the pit, as hell stand a better chance of surviving the nuclear blast below. He makes up his mind and jumps into the pit, followed by Logan. Logan grabs a metal door and covers Yashida with it. Seconds later the wall of fire is swept into the well, and Logan is consumed by it; burnt to a crisp. Yashida survives the bombing, with only a small burn on his cheek, and watches, in horror, as a third-degree burned Logan heals before his eyes. Logan awakens. Hes in bed with Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), and she asks him what dream it was this time. Nagasaki he responds. Logan has bad dreams every night, it seems. The two cuddle, and Logan professes his undying love for her, and then gasps; his claws are embedded in her chest. Fresh blood is pouring out of her stomach. Logan screams, in horror, and awakens from his dream-within-a-dream in a cave in the Yukon. Logan has become a hermit, living in the woods alone and haunted by nightmares with Jean Grey. One day, the Japanese girl Yukio, who is skilled with a samurai sword, visits Logan and tells that her grandfather, the powerful businessman Yashida, is dying and wants to see him for the last time before dying. Yashida was a Japanese soldier that Logan saved the life of in Nagasaki in the World War II. Logan travels Japan with Yukio and the moribund Yashida offers mortality to Logan, transferring his gift to him, but Logan does not accept the offer. While sleeping, Logan has a weird dream with Yashidas doctor Viper and soon Yashida dies. Logan stays for the funeral and the Yakuza tries to abduct Yashidas granddaughter Mariko during the ceremony. Logan saves and flees with Mariko, but he is shot and does not heel the wounds. Logan protects Mariko and tries to find what has happened to him. 4.5 out of 5 Great movie... imdb/title/tt1430132/combined
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:49:32 +0000
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