The Wolverine (2013)

The Wolverine was the titular character’s second solo outing, the sixth movie in the X-Men franchise and followed X-Men: The Last Stand in terms of its chronology.

While it wasn’t a spectacular movie, it was a solid offering that proved to be quite refreshing to the franchise – thanks mostly to it being predominantly set in Japan and its utilisation of an armoured villain.

The movie was praised by critics for staying true to the comics and managing to keep casual mainstream audiences entertained, although its final act – i.e. the battle between Wolverine and the Silver Samurai – was criticised for reverting to cartoonish violence and cheapening the film as a whole.

The positive critical reception was a welcome accompaniment to an almost quadrupled box office profit from the movie’s budget of $120 million.