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The Wolverine Movie review

The Wolverine is a 2013 American-Australian superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine. It is the sixth installment in the X-Men film series and follows the events of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Hugh Jackman reprises his role from previous films as the title character, with James Mangold directing a screenplay written by Christopher McQuarrie, Scott Frank, and Mark Bomback, based on the 1982 limited series Wolverine by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller.

McQuarrie was hired to write a screenplay for The Wolverine in August 2009. In October 2010, Darren Aronofsky was hired to direct the film. The project was delayed following Aronofsky's departure and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. In June 2011, Mangold was brought on board to replace Aronofsky. Bomback was then hired to rewrite the screenplay in September 2011. The supporting characters were cast in July 2012 with principal photography beginning at the end of the month in New South Wales before moving to Tokyo in August 2012 and back to New South Wales in October 2012. The film was converted to 3D in post-production.

The Wolverine was released on July 24, 2013 in various international markets; and is scheduled to be released on July 25, 2013 in Australia, and on July 26, 2013 in the United States and in India.

Logan (Wolverine) has become a recluse after the death of Jean Grey, living in an isolated forest outside of a small Yukon town. He begins experiencing nightmares involving Jean, and memories of being a prisoner of war in Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 the day the atom bomb was dropped. He saved the life of a young soldier, Yashida, who had freed the prisoners when the bomber approached. At a bar in the nearby town, he fights with hunters who illegally poisoned a bear, and leaves with Yukio, a young Japanese woman with the ability to see into the future, who has tracked him down. She tells Logan that her employer, Yashida, the head of a multinational technology corporation, is the soldier he had saved. Acceding to the dying Yashida's request to say goodbye to him, Logan accompanies Yukio to Japan.

At Yashida's home, Logan meets Yashida's son Shingen and granddaughter Mariko, as well as the mutant Viper, who poses as Yashida's oncologist. Yashida offers Logan, whose rapid healing ability may prevent him from dying, the chance to become mortal again: Yashida has found a way to remove Logan's ability and transfer it to himself. Logan declines, and shortly afterward, Yashida dies. That night, Logans' dream about Jean soon turns into the realisation that Viper is atop him, breathing mist.

At Yashida's funeral, members of the Yakuza attack and attempt to kidnap Mariko. When Logan defends her, he is shot and does not readily heal from his wounds. Nonetheless, Logan escapes with Mariko, thanks in part to the help of archer Harada, a childhood friend and former flame of Mariko's. On a bullet train with Mariko, Logan is attacked by assassins; after surviving a train-top battle and arriving at Mariko's destination, they check into a hotel. There he suffers through another dream involving Jean, and collapses from his wounds. Mariko has him treated by the veterinarian son of the hotel's owner. Logan and Mariko arrive at the Yashidas' seaside house in Nagasaki, where she recounts her childhood with her playmate Yukio and friend Harada. Logan visits the bunker where he saved Yashida. That night, Logan and Mariko share an intimate conversation and spend the night together. The following morning, Logan awakens to find Mariko missing. He chases after her captors, grabbing one while the others escape, and discovers that Noburo Mori, the corrupt minister of justice who is to marry Mariko, is behind her kidnapping. Yukio arrives and explains she had a vision of him dead.

Logan confronts Mori, who reveals Shingen ordered the kidnapping. At the Yashida residence, Shingen informs Mariko that Yashida's will left everything to her, and so he plans to kill her. However, Viper and Harada intercede. Harada takes Mariko, Viper poisons Shingen, and they escape. Logan and Yukio enter to find the bodyguards dead, and Logan uses Yashida's medical technology to discover Viper planted a bug-like creature on his heart, which caused his healing factor to shut down. Logan cuts into his body to remove the bug, but Shingen enters and fights with Yukio. Logan removes the bug, but appears to die on the table. His healing factor manifests itself, and he awakens and fights an armored Shingen, killing him in self-defense.

Logan and Yukio head towards to the research facility where Mariko is being held. Harada and his ninjas shoot Logan multiple times with their arrows attached to ropes. Shortly afterward, an unconscious Logan awakens in the facility, where Viper has restrained him. She introduces him to the Silver Samurai, a giant robotic Samurai made of the indestructible metal adamantium. The Samurai attempts to cut off Logan's claws, but Mariko saves Logan and he breaks free to fight the Samurai. Harada shoots an arrow into Viper, who sheds her outer skin and battles Yukio, and Harada is killed fighting the Samurai. The Samurai cuts off Logan's claws, forcing him to fight the Samurai with a sword. Yukio kills Viper. Logan beheads the Samurai, only to fall through a broken wall and hang on to an edge of the facility floor. The Samurai begins to drill into Logan's broken claws, and reveals itself to be Yashida, whom the Samurai suit has kept alive. Yashida's age begins to reverse as he absorbs Logan's healing abilities, but Mariko throws Logan's broken claws at Yashida, giving Logan enough time to damage the suit with his regrown claws and throw it out of the building, killing Yashida and allowing Logan to regain his healing powers. The wounded Logan begins to slip away and encounters Jean, and finally accepts that he was forced to kill her and did what had to be done.

At an airport, Yukio, Logan and Mariko share an emotional farewell. Mariko begs Logan to stay, and he politely refuses, she accepts this as she has found new inner peace with herself. In a private jet that Mariko has provided them, Yukio asks Logan to choose his next destination.

In a post-credits scene set two years later, Logan, at an airport, sees an advertisement for Trask Industries. He then meets Magnetoand Professor Xavier, who explains to Logan that something momentous has happened and he is needed.

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cast:

• Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine: a mutant and member of the X-Men. Jackman, who portrayed the character in the previous X-Men films, also produced the film via his company Seed Productions. Regarding Logan's struggle with immortality, Jackman said, "He realizes everyone he loves dies, and his whole life is full of pain. So it's better that he just escapes. He can't die really. He just wants to get away from everything." Jackman stated that he ate six meals a day in preparation for the role. Jackman contacted Dwayne Johnson for some tips on bulking up for the movie. Johnson suggested that for six months, he gain a pound a week, by eating 6,000 calories a day which consisted of "an awful lot of chicken, steak and brown rice".
• Haruhiko Yamanouchi as Ichirō Yashida, the head of a Japanese technology empire
• Tao Okamoto as Mariko Yashida, Yashida's granddaughter. Logan protects Mariko as she becomes threatened as a result of her father's will. About her character, Okamoto said that Mariko is no pushover and is proficient in karate and knife-throwing.
• Rila Fukushima as Yukio: one of the deadliest assassins in Shingen’s clan. Fukushima said, "My character's very physical. Yukio and Wolverine have a lot in common. She really takes care of him and he also cares about her." Mangold described Yukio as a lethal fighter who is "both sexy and almost kind of sprung from the anime world."
• Hiroyuki Sanada as Shingen Yashida: Mariko's father, and crime boss
• Will Yun Lee as Kenuichio Harada: Lee said that he underwent rigorous sword training for the film.
• Brian Tee as Noburo Mori: a corrupt minister of justice who is about to marry Mariko.
• Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper: a mutant, who has an immunity to toxins. About her character, Khodchenkova said "Viper doesn't really have many people that she cares about, most of them she just uses for her own purpose." Mangold said, "as her name would imply, she's kind of snakelike," and that Viper views Logan "like a great hunter might view hunting a lion in his quarry."