In this movie Logan travels to Japan in order to meet an old acquaintance, who wants to settle old scores before his demise. But most of the time the focus is on where it should be. There are some callbacks to the events of the trilogy, but as a whole I think this film could have worked just as well without them, if not better, as they are a bit distracting from time to time. The focus is kept heavily on Hugh Jackman, which works for the movie's advantage. The Wolverine is a movie that works both as a continuation of the X-Men storyline, as well as a standalone movie. Luckily, the film makers decided to do one more and if this particular movie is going to be the last one, I for one can move on happy with what I got. For some time it seemed that the poor critical performances of both that and X-Men 3 would mean there would be no more movies with Wolverine in them, at least in a leading role.
Hugh Jackman still was, and always will be, a brilliant Wolverine, but the other characters felt lackluster, the villain was weak and the storyline didn't fit well with the other X-Men movies.
I didn't much care for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Reviewed by Vartiainen 7 / 10 Worthy successor
