I needed more Yukio, even though she was featured heavily. She stole the show for me and her backstory with growing up a mutant and her special relationship with the Yoshida's make me want more of her. I wouldn't mind if in the future she is revisited because her and Logan are a kickass team. I liked Mariko, which is saying a lot for me, because there was nothing aside from a sad face shown of her in promotional material. I didn't fully buy the fact that her and Logan became sort of a thing so soon, but I am glad they didn't turn it into a full blown love story like what he and Jean had become in previous films. Harada served his purpose, and he was another character I wish there was more of, just a little. The Japan setting was great, how it was shot and how the character's interacted with their environment made me feel the world they were in. The setting had a very major impact on it's environment and it was very welcomed! There were some pretty awesome 'wolverine' moments as in one liners and insults. It had it's fair share of comedic moments (particularly caveman Logan getting "disinfected" by the cleaning women int he tub, haha) without becoming overbearing like the Marvel films.
Speaking of Jean, her role and part int he story was great, but her actual character confused me a bit. [BLACKOUT]Jean never loved Logan like she did Scott, Phoenix, however, was all over him because it was part of what she was, and instinctual creature. The movie made Jean in love with him and the final scene with her made her clingy in a way, and not very Jean-like. "I'm all alone" no, you killed Cyclops, is here not there with you? (plot hole or future movie thread?). "You put me here", uh, is it Phoenix talking or Jean, because this is a major monkey wrench in the system. How Jean behaved in her last scene was the only thing I wasn't expecting. Aside from that, oh hey White Hot Room, nice white dress.[/BLACKOUT] Jean was there to help him, warn him, help him move on and it served it's purpose. Seeing Famke back in the role was major for me, because I'm a major Jean Grey fan and a fan of Famke as her. I understand that things didn't go as any of us, Famke included, wanted for the character, but this was a very nice addition to the role. This woman doesn't age, she could easily jump back in the role a few films from now. Viper was the downside, she filled the maniacal villain role and I wasn't too fond of her character, but it as necessary to move the movie along and had a certain edge that balanced the movie.
Silver Samurai, where do I begin, [BLACKOUT]Yoshida actually being the one in the suit, sure I'm fine with it. Cutting off logan's claws to extract his bone marrow so that Yoshida will be young again but Logan starts rapidly aging, what? That's an actual feature in the suit? I don't know where to begin with that. Why build a samurai suit if you anticipated on Logan not having his healing factor, why not just have the clan of ninjas take care of him if that was the case? Build an incubator to keep you alive instead, not a silver samurai suit that's keeping you alive though not mentioned how? How did you know you needed adamantium, Logan didn't even know that for most of his life, and how did he find that much of it? After all was said and done, why not get the same person that built the suit to melt it back down and give wolverine his metal claws back. He can't fight Sentinels with bone claws! What did he have planned for Mariko when he would gain his 'life' back? Viper never finished answering that.[/BLACKOUT] Keep in mind, all of that take you literally 10 minutes of the film, so that hasn't had a major impact on my view of the movie.
As for the mid credits scene, WOW. Probably the best that I've seen in a long time. This is a full summary, fresh from my memory, of the scene. [BLACKOUT]2 years later, Wolverine is going through an airport checkpoint. He looks up at a television screen and there's a commercial playing. It's for Trask Industries, showing clips of a robotic arm moving then a military drone before cutting out to the logo and a voice over saying "building today for a better tomorrow". Logan then moves ahead in the line and he looks at a tray next to him. All the metal starts to whirl around in it and then levitate upward. He looks around frantically before stopping and he quickly lashes his claws out and attacks the person right behind him in line. He then stops mid swing as Magneto has hold of him. Magneto is wearing the same outfit we saw him in during X1 when he and Xavier met outside of the Senate hearing, hat and jacket. He informs Wolverine that there are human forces at work building something that could out an end to their kind. While he's saying this, everyone behind him moving about just stops mid stride. Logan asks why he should trust him and Magneto releases his hold on him, Logan begins to notice everything around him has stopped. The very next thing we see is Xavier in his chair, wheeling through a crowd of time frozen people to the front of Wolverine. Logan is shocked and has a confused face and stutters out "how is this possible" and Xavier replies "like I said when we first met, we aren't the only people with special talents". Logan looks at him, then turns back to Magneto behind him who I think says something and it cuts back to the credits. [/BLACKOUT]
but I skimmed that review lol
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