Well, what do you know? Logan (the Wolverine) is a comedian. After sleeping with the very-much-engaged Mariko he confronted Noburu, Mariko’s fiancé, and chastised the latter for being engaged and cavorting with two working ladies. Now that’s real tongue-in-cheek humor from the normally grumpy Logan :P
Overall, I like the movie. It follows the trend of more real-world superheroes. Or superhumans. Or mutants. The mutants here look like normal people and wear regular clothes. No fancy skin-tight costumes. Except maybe Viper’s but it was still within the realm of normal wear. Even the action scenes are almost realistic. Except for the one on top of a speeding bullet train. That was simply preposterous. Logan himself is pretty mortal, almost human, for most of the running time so he toned down his heroics. A bit.
Instead of the action, the movie focuses more on the story, Logan’s story. After an invitation from a Japanese mutant, he travels to Japan to say goodbye to a dying acquaintance, Yashida, whose life he had saved and had built up one of the world’s biggest conglomerates. But all is not what it seemed with Yashida, his son, and his grandaughter (Mariko). And the mystery quickly thickens as Yashida dies and the funeral is attacked.
But instead of leaving it all behind, Logan, decides to stick around and untangle the web of deceit. Or maybe it’s because of the ethereal Mariko. If Logan wasn’t a comic book with a need to show off some comic book action, it could have been a suspense thriller. And a would have been good one, too.