MOVIE NEWS – There was a time when we couldn’t get enough of Wolverine. The mutant has been a favorite character in cinema, and his films have always given us one step forward and one step back. Among the beloved entries is The Wolverine, a film inspired by an essential Frank Miller reading of the character and fitted into the nebulous continuity of the movies. It served as a direct sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand and an attempt to make amends for the franchise after the small disaster that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

For the most part it worked out well. It is a worthy Logan adventure and one of the most unique spin-offs of the genre, with a genuinely good premise. The consensus at the time was that it was a cool film until it becomes too over-the-top in the final third, the point at which things we may have glossed over start to weigh on us.

Immortality on a Switch

At the center is a conflict that you certainly have to take with a pinch of salt. Logan is exhausted by his immortality and grieving Jean’s death. This is where he reunites with a very special benefactor, a soldier he saved from the 1945 Nagasaki bombings who is now a wealthy man ready to return the favor with a very special offer: to let him die and finally rest in peace by taking away his power. All of this is very poetic, but it is also nonsensical within the established cinematic canon of the saga and the character. During the film, a cynical Logan initially refuses the plan claiming that “what they did to me can’t be undone.” However, if he is referring to the Weapon X project, that has nothing to do with his immortality. That experiment gave him his famous adamantium skeleton, but his “claws” and his regeneration ability are a consequence of his mutation.

This is only the beginning of a plot that degenerates in terms of logic regarding his powers. The extraction method through his bones when it is something that, being part of his mutation, would therefore be in his cells, makes no sense. That this could magically rejuvenate the villain makes even less. Wolverine’s powers (as is later told in Logan) have an extraordinary cellular regeneration capacity, but that they could reverse the biological clock is a triple somersault the film tries to throw. The worst of this is that Mangold got himself into this hole on his own. Miller’s original comic (Wolverine, 1982) has nothing about this plot of stealing immortality and comes closer to a traditional samurai story. Beyond the regeneration, also somewhat bizarre are details like the villain’s adamantium armor, which in theory should be so heavy that it is hard to believe he could move in it. As it is also hard to believe that Logan recovers his bone claws when, however much they cut off his adamantium ones, he still has an entire skeleton made of the material. But fine, all the better that the logic of the universe does not prevent you from a nice reference to the character’s past.

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