This film in my opinion was probably the second best in the X-men series if after X-men 2. It fleshed out (again, but lets pretend the other wolverine movie didn’t happen) Marvel’s titular character “The Wolverine”. It made the ever more immortal character vulnerable, this is the problem that  arises every time a superhero movie is released which revolves around a lack of better words “op” “imba” characters. Superman, The Hulk and Wolverine all have these factors which just make them unkillable. Superman is just impervious to any form of damage, Hulk… I don’t even know when hulk has even taken damage of any kind and Wolverine slowly through the years his regeneration has gone from healing minor wounds to regenerating himself back from a nuclear blast.

This pitfall often leads to either predictable and cliche weakness’ or either attempts at making them seem vulnerable through emotions. Lets take Man of Steel (spoilers to come if you havn’t seen) What was his weakness in that film? His love for human race after destroying half of Metropolis. Superman was always the god figure and epitome of a superhero in comics and in the film. Incredible Hulk’s downfall is himself. The unwillingness to become the monster, a Dr Jekyll and Hyde dilemma.

In the Wolverine they just strip all of his powers. His villain is stronger than he is in every way, the henchman (for once) actually deal damage and miraculously all have amazing aim. Maybe the Yakuza have better arms training than the thousands of CIA operatives in this universe. We can relate to him more as we see him faint, dream, etc… Noone likes seeing a one sided fight or argument its bland  and its overdone. I think the main downfall of this film was the secondary villain who was just there just to be evil. She had no motivation, no agenda. They presented her as a secondary 3rd party force, but ended up just working for Yashida. Overall the film was enjoyable, better than what i expected which wasn’t much after the last 2.