The Wolverine
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 26, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 46 Critic Reviews
Positive:
26
Mixed:
19
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
CineVueAmon WarmannFeb 17, 2017
Unsurprisingly, Jackman is as perfect for Wolverine as he was when he first played the character 13 years ago. Convincing whether going berserk on a troublesome ninja or showing Logan's inner turmoil, he's a commanding presence throughout and, as you might expect, is the film's engine. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJul 26, 2013
It exists in fits and starts: a Blade Runner–esque moment of rainy contemplation on a hotel balcony; some weird sexual tension with a lizard girl (statuesque Svetlana Khodchenkova) who steals away Wolverine’s healing powers. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJul 25, 2013
The Wolverine is an erratic affair, more lumbering than compelling, an ambitious film with its share of effective moments that stubbornly refuses to catch fire. Read full review
60
The DissolveTasha RobinsonJul 25, 2013
The lack of plot coherence is a lingering irritant in a film that otherwise seems to be trying to improve on its cinematic-series forebears. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 25, 2013
The filmmakers work at creating a new take on an old protagonist and then don’t really have much new to do with him once they’ve achieved that. It’s a good effort. Just not an entirely successful one. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterMegan LehmannJul 21, 2013
Until a third act that collapses in a harebrained heap, the director largely succeeds in keeping the more cartoonish aspects at bay, roughing up the surface with organically staged fight scenes and, crucially, raising the stakes by stripping his hitherto indestructible hero of his self-healing powers. Read full review
60
EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Jul 18, 2013
An improvement on the last outing for Jackman’s not-so-merry mutant. If only it trusted enough in its unique setting to forgo a descent into aggressively awful formula. Read full review
60
Total FilmNeil SmithJul 18, 2013
It’s a step up from the garbled silliness of Wolverine’s first solo outing. Unlike Origins, the storytelling is more sharply focused here, ignited by flashes of stylised superheroism. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJul 28, 2013
Slapped with the generic title The Wolverine, the fifth feature-length appearance of Hugh Jackman’s X-Man John Logan is basically "The Bad News Wolverine Goes to Japan" and is not especially world-shaking. Read full review
50
NPRIan BuckwalterJul 26, 2013
I'd like to credit Mangold, along with writers Christopher McQuarrie, Mark Bomback and Scott Frank for their good intentions; the smaller scope and lighter tone of their film is a tonic after bloated doom and gloom of "Man of Steel." Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJul 25, 2013
The mediocre mushy stuff isn’t alleviated by enough action. Read full review
50
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekJul 25, 2013
The Wolverine—despite being an improvement on Gavin Hood’s muddled 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine—isn’t worthy of Jackman’s gifts. It’s a reasonably engaging summer diversion, a semi-rousing adventure that doesn’t make you feel robbed of two hours of your life. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJul 24, 2013
This is Jackman’s show entirely, and he’s as forceful and charismatic as ever as the walking, talking hurt that is Wolverine. If only he had something more interesting to do here. Read full review
42
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanJul 25, 2013
It’s rare that a movie stops making sense before anyone speaks a line of intelligible dialogue, but The Wolverine is a rare movie. Read full review
42
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJul 24, 2013
The Wolverine wants to have it both ways: a dark character story and an action-packed superhero film. But it never reconciles the two notes, and thus becomes more and more atonal as it wobbles towards its symphonically jarring ending. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJul 24, 2013
Good thing the Aussie star has the role down to a science, since the rest of The Wolverine is a howler. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonGuy LodgeJul 23, 2013
This turgid return papers over the previous film’s narrative, but creates little in the way of a fresh character arc. Read full review
40
The GuardianHenry BarnesJul 18, 2013
The flat hammerblows of The Wolverine bear little relation to the zing and pop of Matthew Vaughn's colourful treatment. Inconsistency is inevitable in a world that's constantly being dug up and done over, but it leaves us no time to fall in love with anything being flung at us. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinJul 18, 2013
The previous X-Men film, First Class, was secure enough in its own skin to embrace its comic side. Mangold’s picture affects a pubescent snarl instead: that’s the difference between comic and daft. Read full review
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