'The Wolverine' first trailer review

After a 6-second trailer for a trailer and a 20-second trailer for a trailer, the first real trailer for the actual The Wolverine movie has arrived. Just to introduce things a bit properly, my knowledge of the X-Men franchise isn't exactly impressive. I've only seen the first X-Men film and I barely remember it and I saw X-Men: First Class twice and I loved it. So I wasn't looking forward to The Wolverine with much anticipation; I think he is a cool character, but I also think he gets a bit too much of the spotlight and I haven't heard a lot of good things about his previous standalone movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine as well, so my my expectations for this movie were - mild. I wasn't expecting it a lot, I will still definitely go see it and I didn't have any opinion on it, neither good neither bad, pretty much leaving the amount of expectation to be boosted by the trailers. And how is it after watching the trailer? Well, still mild, to be honest.

I'M WOLVERINE MOTHAFUCKAAAAAAA!!!!

There are actually two trailers now released: a domestic and an international one. I don't know the purpose of this, since they are very much alike, except that the international one is about half a minute longer but doesn't show much more substance at all. Social analytics might dig into them, seeking out shots and elements that are not present in the domestic trailer and discover yet another flaw of the damaged social state of the U.S, but to us regular people, it doesn't change anything. Now the trailers are objectively speaking average: they reveal a bit of the story, they have a bit of cool action and dialogue, but they're also pretty cliche, with the annoying electronized Inception-horn music (that doesn't even fit, if it would be used properly like in the Star Trek: Into Darkness trailer, it would be fine) and I'm pretty sure the trailer score for the domestic trailer is a straight rip-off the Skyfall teaser trailer score. Otherwise speaking, we do get glimpses of Wolverine kicking Japanese ass, an intense claw-to-sword duel, a redhead Japanese springing around mysteriously, a shot of Famke Janssen, an old man dying on a bed (so generic, am I right?) and a slightly badly-green-screened rip-off of the train fight scene from Skyfall. 

If there is one thing that intrigues me and interests me in The Wolverine, it's the story. As revealed in the trailer and confusing plot synopsises, Wolverine visits a Japanese man whose life he has saved (I don't know when, possibly in the film's much-hated predecessor, I believe) and discovers, that there actually is a way for him to get rid of his healing powers and become mortal. He then of course gets dramatically shot and towards the end of the trailer dramatically reveals, he is no longer leaving. The subject of mortality and any kind of clever moral complex inside such a character, especially a superhero is always interesting (hence Iron Man 3), but it only works if it's done good, so I hope it will be done good. The trailer itself doesn't actually offer much substance or the tone of the film, but rather relies on a bizzare mix of story and action, that is bound to work in the actual movie. So far, it hasn't got much of my attention or interest, but I'll definitely go see The Wolverine to see how it turned out. 

So what did you think of the first trailer(s) to The Wolverine? Are you excited for the film, if yes/no, why? Do you think Wolverine should just stop getting all the attention and standalone movies finally? Check out the  domestic trailer, the international trailer, comment below, let me know!