Yep. Saw Wolverine for the cheap $6 Special Tuesday price at Criterion Cinemas. What an experience. I emphasize watching the preview. It's better than the whole film, because it skips the boring parts and highlights all of the most exciting scenes. If you want a 2nd grade education in Japanese culture, provided to you from ABC Marvel Disney, then this is the movie for you. It's about our hero, Huge Jack Man, who runs around with claws killing people. What makes it ok? He's allowed to kill people because he's doing it for the right reason: revenge.
The entire movie takes place in Japan, save for one or two scenes where our hero is in Colorado, buying batteries. He gets into a bar brawl because some yokels killed a bear. But he's saved by a weird looking asian girl who thinks she's psychic but proves herself wrong multiple times throughout the movie.
When he's not fighting ninjas, he's asking strangers why he is not healing anymore. They don't know but he finds out anyway. It turns out that during Wolverine's illustrious career as a soldier, he was captured by Japanese soldiers in some kind of well, which happened to be located across the water from Nagasaki. The Japanese soldiers hear the American bombers flying over and watch the bomb drop over Nagasaki. While this was a defining moment for the 20th century, this also helped define the life of a young soldier who the Wolverine saves, by dragging him into the pit he was being held captive in, which was the only place that was safe in the wake of the blast.
That by far is the most interesting part of the movie, and it happens in the first 10 minutes. The last line of the movie was "sigh." I can't recommend seeing this movie. If your time is valuable, I would suggest investing it in anything besides trying to keep up with its confusing plot.
That soldier becomes rich and powerful and has a corrupt family more loyal to money than to one another. His final wish is to produce an IronMan-esque machine which is designed with the sole intent to destroy Wolverine and take his magic healing powers. There is also a woman with an affection for clothing and apparel in the color of olive green, who hides a key piece of information throughout the whole movie: that she's secretly bald.
He does get laid, once in real life and possibly more than once or twice in various afterlife dream sequences with a former lover whom he murdered because she was "hurting people."
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