Disney Plus is adding an underrated Marvel movie this week. On New Year’s Day, the Mouse House’s streaming service will debut yet another film from the X-Men franchise that Disney inherited from Fox. While we’re still waiting to see how the studio handles the R-rated Logan, this January 1st sees its predecessor, 2013’s The Wolverine, become available to stream for subscribers in the US and other territories.
The Wolverine, Hugh Jackman’s second solo outing as the immortal anti-hero, sees Logan travel to Japan when he is summoned by an elderly businessman who he saved during World War Two. Sucked into a shadowy realm of yakuza and samurai, Wolverine is pushed to the emotional and physical brink as he faces his own mortality for the first time. Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Hiroyuki Sanada and Famke Janssen co-star.
James Mangold’s first outing in the X-universe isn’t as much of a slam-dunk as Logan but it’s a heck of a lot better than X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which can also be found on Disney Plus) and is worth a rewatch if you haven’t seen it for a while. Alternatively, you can view it as part of an X-Men or Jackman marathon on the platform, as there’s a lot of X-Men content and a bunch of the Australian icon’s filmography on D+ at this point.
On the whole, it’s a pretty good entry in the franchise. On Rotten Tomatoes, The Wolverine has a critical score of 71% and an audience score of 69%. As the Critical Consensus reads, “Although its final act succumbs to the usual cartoonish antics, The Wolverine is one superhero movie that manages to stay true to the comics while keeping casual viewers entertained.”
So this New Year, as we sit tight and wait for Marvel Studios to roll out some new content at last, make sure to catch The Wolverine on Disney Plus.
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