An ex X-man with an Japanese twist.

Picture gallery

After tragically ending Jean Grey's life, tired of his damned immortality, the beat down mutant “Wolverine” (or Logan) withdraws in his childhood Canadian mountains to find solitude. Until one day, his past catches up with him. He is taken to the bedside of a dying Japanese man whose life he had saved in Nagasaki, decades ago. Logan finds himself in the middle of a bloody family quarrel. He will have to fight, face haunting memories and the possibility of his mortality.

After the train wreck that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the series' fans finally get the Wolverine movie they deserve. By rooting his story in Japanese tradition and aesthetics, director James Mangold (Walk the Line) creates a unique super-hero movie, a thriller with convincing Asian tones. Wolverine's character is finally thoroughly written, struggling with the demons his situation naturally entails. Setting aside some strange aesthetical choices that remind us a little too much of questionable taste in super-hero attire (yes, Batman and Robin…) and a dodgy ending fight scene, The Wolverine is a truly original super-hero movie, beautiful at times, always engaging and very exciting.