Hugh Jackman, your favorite immortal Wolverine, is back. He is tired and weary, and he is haunted by nightly hallucinations of Jean Grey, the X-Woman he loved and whom he had to kill in X-Men: The Last Stand. What is a Wolverine to do? After all, being immortal cancels out an exit by suicide... So is the life of a Comics Superhero: no resting in peace, there is always one more sequel or reboot.
This is Jackman's sixth X-Men role as the Wolverine and his second as a standalone offshoot of the X-Men series. While director James Mangold and writers Christopher McQuarrie, Scott Frank, and Mark Bomback, had a noble underlying theme for this installment: letting go of the past, it all becomes too muddled to a point this half an hour too long saga loses its focus. Though enjoying excellent performance from Jackman, who is able to get under the Wolverine's skin down to his last hair, and despite some terrific action scenes, after a good start The Wolverine is yet just one more flimsy summer action flick.