The Wolverine [Blu-ray]

STUNNING! Having been a fan of Marvel, Dark Horse, 2000AD etc for many years and collecting the films also, I was thinking this would be a bit of a disappointment as I heard people saying it was rather average especially compared to the other X-MEN type films. How more could they be wrong. The first 20 mins captivated me, and I knew I was watching a masterpiece of a movie. The acting, script, flow of story is just superb and also has a surprisingly refreshing feel. You genuinely feel attached to all of the characters and the direction of the film is just beautiful, with virtually many scenes having an almost Ridley-Scott buttery perfection to it. The action pieces are excellent and are never OTT, by far the most faithful to the comics and most 'believable', one of the highlights being the fight atop of the bullet train. The pacing is really what makes this film, it is neither too fast nor too slow, but just absolutely perfect, with each scene unfolding with a kind of serene rhythm, giving you plenty of time to take in the characters and stunning cinematography and attention to detail. Visually the effects are gorgeous, the bear in the woods being one of the highlights for being so realistic. Hugh Jackman and the other supporting Japanese character actors are just superb, rock-solid and exactly what I wanted to see and hear. The story was nothing outstanding, but it is beautifully realised from the script and certainly keeps you interested. You feel it is building up to something and the ending doesn't disappoint. I was genuinely surprised in a few places! This really is a terribly underrated film, much more enjoyable than the previous Wolverine film and that was a good effort. I place this alongside Oblivion for the most criminally underrated films of the last few years. Excellent Blu-Ray quality, highly recommended!

Who doesnt love wolverine, even before the films wolverine in the comics was depicted as the bad ass of all bad ass's.. When Hugh Jackman was cast in this role it was perfection. His performance and look is great for it.. The first solo outing for this iconic character wasn't considered the best (however I still like it, you must enjoy films as an entertainment factor, and at its core it does that). But anyway down to this film. Taking place after X-Men:The Last Stand, the story takes you to a new part of the world and introduces a few new characters from the long history of the comics. It never has mattered if you are into the comics as the films are great as a stand alone element and give you the information and background on the characters you need (although if your like me you research the characters profile later anyway :D). This is a quality film and the visuals are as ever great and builds the tensions nicely for the next full X-Men Film. The one every one is waiting for....Days of Furtures Past!!!! Enjoy and add this too your collection...

I received the Blu-ray of The Wolverine today and upon inserting the disc I saw a short "20th Century Fox" logo, followed by a red screen saying "WARNING Your Blu-ray player requires an update in order to play this disc." Naturally, there is no recent firmware update available for the Samsung BD-D5500 that would allow me to play this disc. Now I'm stuck with a nice £15 wolverine-themed coaster until an update enables my player to actually play it, which can take weeks, months or may not even happen at all, because my player is about two years old and more recent products (read: those that are still being sold and make the company money) are being favored when it comes to firmware updates. Why is it so hard to roll out firmware updates among all major manufacturers first (Samsung is co-founder of the whole friggin' Blu-ray standard!) before releasing Blu-ray discs that actually require the respective updates? Why do studios leave paying customers hanging with an unusable product, while other people can enjoy their illegal copies without any such problems? Here is another theory: do studios make the whole Blu-ray standard more inconvenient than necessary on purpose in order to promote their HD streaming services that would give them maximum control over their content? After all, there is a code for a Digital HD download in the Blu-ray box that would allow me to watch the movie even though the disc doesn't work. Of course I will not be tempted by that offer. I paid for a physical medium and I damn well want to use it. This is making me furious. Just to be clear why I gave this a one star rating: Amazon is an online shop and not a movie site. Because of that I don't just rate the movie but the overall product. If a product doesn't work, not because it's faulty but by deliberate design, it doesn't deserve any other rating. My Blu-ray player is perfectly fine and up-to-date. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment decided to release a product with changed software routines that some hardware isn't prepared for yet, knowing full well what the consequences would be, and I decided to answer in kind with this review. If other customers don't find the warning that this product might not work on their hardware as well useful, so be it. ****UPDATE**** I found a solution to the problem. Yesterday I tried watching another movie that is being distributed by Fox Home Entertainment. Never Let Me Go. It greeted me with the same warning to update my player that greeted me when I tried playing the Wolverine Blu-ray. Since Never Let Me Go is from 2010 I suspected that a firmware update might have broken the compatibility with other older Fox titles as well, so I tested Aliens and A Good Day to Die Hard, both of which worked perfectly fine. Being at a loss I tested a pretty outrageous theory that I never would have thought off had'nt an old title like Never Let Me Go given me trouble. I removed my flash drive from the Samsung player and tried again. Suddenly Never Let Me Go worked. Then I tested The Wolverine and to my bafflement it worked as well! So clearly there is some kind of authoring problem going on with certain titles from Fox Home Entertainment that prevents them from working properly as long as a flash drive is attached to the (Samsung) player. How can something like that happen? Anyway, since a little fix like that made it possible to play the disc without having to wait weeks, months or eternity for a firmware update I bumped my rating from 1 star to 4 stars. Otherwise the Blu-ray is well made and the movie is good.

Immortality yes or no in this exciting life to death situation so much full on action and suspense this can only give, well we know the truth but let's carry on with my comments, the show is unusual and with the marvellous cast and great storyline there is no chance of not been fantastic, made in Japan and all this and that makes this an A grade plus. When it first started I really wasn't going to watch it, a bit slow on the mark but it did pick up and improved than that got my interest, We can't work the actors to much as they will get tired and demand more money. The imagination and ideas are fabulous so worth picking up the movie but you need the popcorn also, now when you relax with feet up well try to anyway, with this movie it could be a bit hard as it will have you on your toes, so for a brilliant night in of entertainment than this is it. Enjoy!

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L'edizione bluray 3d contiene 3 dischi: uno versione cinematografica+extra, uno per la versione estesa ed uno per la versione 3d. La versione estesa dura 2 ore e 8 minuti senza titoli di coda, video a 16:9 con barre nere sopra e sotto, audio italiano DTS 5.1. Nel disco della versione cinematografica sono presenti dei documentari extra e il mini finale alternativo (nulla di che).

Interesting storyline, but the film kinda falls flat. Worth the watch if you like the X-Men franchise. But like the first, the layering of all the films to date is lacking. Action packed, but pretty narrow storyline.

4.5 stars I'd say. This review is long overdue for me. I enjoyed this movie very much, but more than that, I thought it was a great film. Bryan Singer's X-Men films are breathtaking in their spectacle but this film is equally impressive in its meditative quality. Aside from the action sequences, which are great, and a bit of a wild climax, there is a good bit of downtime in this film during which the film explores Wolverine's struggle with his powers, the cost of those powers, and the meaning of immortality. I don't think the films delves into it as intellectually as it might have, but, by filming it the way he has, James Mangold shows us that the film is a least as concerned with being a story about people and legacy as much as it is with being a "superhero" movie. I have always liked the association of Wolverine with Japan in the comics. It seemed very natural, and I'm glad to see that story translated on film. The theme of Wolverine as a Ronin ties in nicely with the problem Logan has of outliving everyone he may fight for (Yoshiga) or care about (Jean). Lovely storytelling. All in all, I expected this movie to receive better reviews from critics than it did. It's underrated, not just as a Marvel movie, but as a film in general (and Mangold, as usual, continues to be underrated as a director). The movie gets around to one of the seminal events in superhero storytelling--showing us the hero without his powers. The question is, implicitly, is he still a hero? And it allows for an examination of the character's humanity. This was done in Superman II when Superman gives up his powers to be with Lois Lane; it's done in Spider-man 2, wherein we see Peter save a child from a burning building without the benefit of his powers; we saw it in Iron Man 3 when Tony Stark has to improvise an attack without the benefit of his suit; we saw it in The Dark Knight Rises when Bruce Wayne goes broke, and has to see what he's really made of as a man in escaping from the pit. And generally, showing us a superhero without his powers has basically the same effect as planting a fundamental weakness in the hero--eg. Kryptonite for Superman and Water for Bruce Willis's character in Unbreakable. The device works well in The Wolverine as Logan is repeatedly haunted by thoughts of Jean Grey forcing him to wonder if being mortal is really such a bad thing. As I said, I think this film is underrated, and I would in fact place it in the top five superhero films to come out of the genre since the release of X-Men in 2000. In no particular order, I think the top five of the last 15 years are Batman Begins, Spider-man 2, Unbreakable, The Wolverine, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. However, there are a number of others of surprisingly high quality that they could appear on such a list--Captain America: The Winter Soldier, X2: X-Men United, and X-Men: First Class, to name just a few. I continue to be amazed by the quality of Marvel films, since it seems like studio executives will inevitably screw up a good thing by trying to get too involved, thinking they know best (e.g., Superman III, and, recently, Amazing Spider-Man 2). Finally, this review would not be complete without giving props to Hugh Jackman for giving the role and the character such respect, and not playing the character with a big wink of the eye (like Roger Moore did with his James Bond films), just because it's a fantasy story. Overall, an excellent addition to the Marvel film canon.