Her actress, Svetlana Khodchenkova, just doesn't have the screen presence or acting skills to give the character any memorable attributes. Unfortunately this film has one major flaw and that is the unbelievably weak villain, known as Viper. Which is a great thing, because it gives the movie more depth and we get a chance to know Wolverine in a new way that the Origins movie tried to reach, but never could because of its lack of emotional maturity. Usually that kind of slowing down in an action movie feels boring and unneeded, even sappy, but here it works because the actors have the skills to pull it off. Jackman and Okamoto have brilliant chemistry together and when the movie slows down during the second act to give them time to simply interact with one another, it feels justified. I especially liked Tao Okamoto's character Mariko, the granddaughter of Wolverine's old friend. In Japan we get some gorgeous scenery, nice atmosphere, intriguing settings, believable characters, all that good stuff. In this movie Logan travels to Japan in order to meet an old acquaintance, who wants to settle old scores before his demise. But most of the time the focus is on where it should be. There are some callbacks to the events of the trilogy, but as a whole I think this film could have worked just as well without them, if not better, as they are a bit distracting from time to time.

The focus is kept heavily on Hugh Jackman, which works for the movie's advantage. The Wolverine is a movie that works both as a continuation of the X-Men storyline, as well as a standalone movie.

Luckily, the film makers decided to do one more and if this particular movie is going to be the last one, I for one can move on happy with what I got. For some time it seemed that the poor critical performances of both that and X-Men 3 would mean there would be no more movies with Wolverine in them, at least in a leading role. Hugh Jackman still was, and always will be, a brilliant Wolverine, but the other characters felt lackluster, the villain was weak and the storyline didn't fit well with the other X-Men movies. I didn't much care for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Reviewed by Vartiainen 7 / 10 Worthy successor

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