Too quickly the random fights pile up -- so many yakuza thugs who forgot to wear chain mail that morning -- and you yearn for the film that might have been.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
26 Jul 2013
fresh:
Director James Mangold's film features some breathtakingly suspenseful action sequences, exquisite production and costume design and colorful characters, some of whom register more powerfully than others.
– Christy Lemire,
RogerEbert.com,
26 Jul 2013
fresh:
It restores the tarnished lustre to this most fan-beloved of Marvel characters by doing precisely what Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's near-sacred 1982 run did: It pumps some feeling into the guy along with his muscles and steel talons.
– Geoff Pevere,
Globe and Mail,
26 Jul 2013
fresh:
Getting [Wolverine] to the movie's above-average finale required three writers - Christopher McQuarrie, Mark Bomback, and Scott Frank - to pad the plot.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
29 Jul 2013
fresh:
It's a relief to come across a blockbuster that finds a location and stays there, rather than hopping desperately from one place to the next ...