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Director: Gavin Hood
Producer: Hugh Jackman
Writers: David Benioff and Len Wein
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds. Live Schreiber, Dominic Monaghan, Lynn Collins, Danny Huston, Daniel Henney, Taylor Kitsch and Kevin Durand
James Logan aka Wolverine and his brother Victor Creed run away together as children in the mid-1850's after Logan kills their biological father, who had murdered Logan's adoptive father. After serving together in many wars they are recruited by William Stryker to serve in a special unit made up of mutants. After wiping out an African village, Logan quits the unit and goes off to live a life of peace in the Canadian Rockies with his girlfriend, later to be known as the Silver Fox. Six years pass until Stryker shows up and asks Logan to come back and be a part of a new Weapon X project. Logan refuses, but Creed shows up and murders Logan's girlfriend leaving him wanting revenge against his brother. Logan accepts Stryker’s offer but is double-crossed by Stryker and hears him give the order to wipe his memories. Escaping before this can happen, he goes searching for Creed, killing anyone who gets in his way.
After reuniting with a few members of his old team, he finds out that Stryker and Creed are actually working together to kidnap mutants and Weapon XI and that only one person knows where their new base of operations is. Gambit is the only mutant to escape this place and Logan goes searching for him in New Orleans. Gambit agrees to take Logan to Three Mile Island where the facility is hidden.
Logan finds many mutant children kept prisoner by Stryker and Creed with the support of the U.S. Government. Logan confronts and learns that Silver Fox isn't dead but was keeping an eye on him for those six years and manipulating him with her mutant power of persuasion. Fox confronts Stryker demanding the release of her sister. Creed comes in and Fox tries to persuade him that Stryker is only using them. She almost gets killed by Creed. Fox and Logan then go to free the children. Fox leads them out of the facility while Logan goes in search of Stryker. In a firefight, Fox is wounded and sends the children on while she goes back to look for Logan. The children make it out of the facility and are met by none other than Charles Xavier, who offers them a ride in his helicopter and protection at his school.
We now get to see Logan’s journey and the battle within, as he owns up to the events of his past. Wolverine has certain qualities that are sacred and the first is that he’s a bad guy. Borrowing the character’s catchphrase, Wolverine is best at what he does and what he does isn’t very nice. Logan’s got attitude, humour and a way about him. He just doesn’t give a damn – and that’s fun for the audience to experience. I had more fun playing Wolverine in this film than ever before. I was trained in theatre, where you’re involved with everything. By the time you go onstage , you know a lot about not only your role, but about the set design, costume design, story development and everything. That excitement, knowledge and preparation are a key part of the experience. This film has lots of great characters new to the X-Men movies. It was particularly rewarding to establish these new characters and find the right actors to play them. With the previous X-Men films, I never had Logan looking exactly as I wanted him to look. For this one, I wanted Logan to look animalistic, veins popping out and coiled like a spring. I wanted the audiences to say, “Okay, this guy is frightening; this guy could easily rip someone’s head off.” While honouring the style of the previous X-Men films, I wanted this one to look bigger and different.
