Raising the stakes by stripping his hitherto indestructible hero of hisįiguratively declawed, the Wolverine stumbles and bleeds, that Up the surface with organically staged fight scenes and, crucially, Largely succeeds in keeping the more cartoonish aspects at bay, roughing Until a third act that collapses in a harebrained heap, the director Squabbling, corruption and corporate greed. Protagonist in a conventional, near bromidic drama of familial Seeks to distance his film from those pulpy beginnings by embedding his Mark Bomback and Scott Frank’s screenplay follows Chris Claremont and Frank Miller’s popular Japan-set comic-book arc from 1982, but Mangold ( Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma) Still has the requisite sockadelic set pieces to guarantee anĪdamantium-plated hit upon its global rollout beginning July 24. His inner demons and a cavalcade of ninjas and inked-up yakuza inĭialing back the city-razing CG mayhem of recent superhero fare inįavor of more grounded action, this noir-ish, unusually intimate take Scowly, mutton-chopped mutant, who here finds himself wrestling with On the heels of the woebegone shambles that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which still managed to earn more than $373 million worldwide), it is, however, a step forward for Hugh Jackman’s Tentpole is, despite its obvious ambition, hardly a game-changer. Sorts to an origin story spun off from a trilogy, Fox’s 3D summer That scratches and claws against the law of diminishing returns alwaysĭestined to beset the splintering X-Men franchise.

The sixth big-screen outing for Marvel’s blade-fisted antihero and one Hugh Jackman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Famke Janssen, Will Yun Lee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Hal Yamanouchi Directorĭirector James Mangold brings a furrowed-brow solemnity to the comic-book world of The Wolverine,

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