The day has finally come! Yes, James Mangold's The Wolverine is out in cinemas the world over, and while you can read my review
here, you can more importantly make up your own mind on Logan's latest claw-slashing adventure, this time taking him to Japan. Reviews have tended towards the mixed - the Rotten Tomatoes score is 67% with a 6.2 average - though the consensus is that it still delivers a worthy installment in the character's mythology, and is likely to leave you even more excited heading towards X-Men: Days of Future Past. The film is nothing if not a mixed bag; it makes several unmistakably big blunders despite its overall intention to pay suitable tribute to the source material it draws from. In some aspects, it deviates from basic logic, and in others it just doesn't do the comic book characters justice, but it still boasts enough kick-ass moments to make it worth a watch. Let's take a look... Take note that
SPOILERS DO FOLLOW.
5 Big Blunders...
5. Yashida Is Unaffected By Radiation
The opening scene of The Wolverine shows Logan saving a young Yashida from the atomic bomb explosion at Nagasaki at the end of World War II, by hurling him into a well and then using the cover of the well as a shield against the force of the explosion. We see the effect that this has on Logan, stripping layers of his skin away and burning him to a cinder, seconds before his regenerative abilities kick in and return him to his regular state, much to Yashida's amazement. The problem is that this doesn't really do much for the radiation that would be waiting to greet Yashida the second he stepped outside the well. Given how close they were to the explosion, there's pretty much no way he could avoid being irradiated upon exiting the well (even if he waited days), or even catching some fallout while being down there, yet the film totally skirts around this.