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| 2013-08-09Watch The Wolverine
Martha Mukaiwa
The Wolverine
The fact that woman all over the world will get to see Hugh Jackman starkers a mere 15 minutes into ‘The Wolverine’ (2013) already ensures that the latest film from the Marvel stable is going to get rave reviews.
This coupled with a refreshingly exotic locale and a much appreciated update about the whole “I killed Jean Grey” situation does much to revitalise a franchise that has since suffered the snafu of ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ (2009) and only just returned to form with ‘X-Men: First Class’ (2011).
Though lone spin-offs from originally ensemble films can be a little tricky, Jackman does his broody best as the immortal and adamantium enhanced Wolverine we have come to know and lust after while carrying a film filled almost entirely with unfamiliar faces.
With no Storm, Cyclops, Jean, Xavier or Magneto, ‘The Wolverine’ seems to further remove itself from the familiar by being set primarily in Tokyo.
However, instead of being a roaring bore sans the menagerie of mutants, the film offers a refreshing redemption and minor love story that dials back on destruction and delves into Wolverine’s inner demons. And some origin story.
That’s not to say you won’t wish you can PVR a particularly epic fight scene atop a bullet train or that action sequences featuring Wolverine’s new sidekick, Yukio, don’t entirely amaze. They do.
They are also sagely interspersed within an arch that begins with the bombing of Nagasaki and deftly navigates its way through what is essentially a chase and salvation story with a bit of Yakuza ninja antics and the requisite cartoony denouement one would expect from a comic book film near the end.
Stay seated for a post-credit scene and, after you’ve enjoyed the much anticipated return of everyone’s favourite X-man, be excited that ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ is coming soon. In 2014. What? It’s already August. The awesome is on its way.
The Wolverine is now showing at Ster-Kinekor.
– marth__vader on Twitter or mail me at martha@namibian.com.na
Though lone spin-offs from originally ensemble films can be a little tricky, Jackman does his broody best as the immortal and adamantium enhanced Wolverine we have come to know and lust after while carrying a film filled almost entirely with unfamiliar faces.
With no Storm, Cyclops, Jean, Xavier or Magneto, ‘The Wolverine’ seems to further remove itself from the familiar by being set primarily in Tokyo.
However, instead of being a roaring bore sans the menagerie of mutants, the film offers a refreshing redemption and minor love story that dials back on destruction and delves into Wolverine’s inner demons. And some origin story.
That’s not to say you won’t wish you can PVR a particularly epic fight scene atop a bullet train or that action sequences featuring Wolverine’s new sidekick, Yukio, don’t entirely amaze. They do.
They are also sagely interspersed within an arch that begins with the bombing of Nagasaki and deftly navigates its way through what is essentially a chase and salvation story with a bit of Yakuza ninja antics and the requisite cartoony denouement one would expect from a comic book film near the end.
Stay seated for a post-credit scene and, after you’ve enjoyed the much anticipated return of everyone’s favourite X-man, be excited that ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ is coming soon. In 2014. What? It’s already August. The awesome is on its way.
The Wolverine is now showing at Ster-Kinekor.
– marth__vader on Twitter or mail me at martha@namibian.com.na
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