{"id":573,"date":"2013-11-19T05:26:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T18:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=573"},"modified":"2013-11-19T05:26:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T18:26:51","slug":"review-the-wolverine-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/11\/19\/review-the-wolverine-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Wolverine (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst I\u00a0have mildly enjoyed the X-Men series of films I think this latest instalment is milking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/220px-The_Wolverine_posterUS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-575\" alt=\"220px-The_Wolverine_posterUS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/220px-The_Wolverine_posterUS-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>franchise somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>The film had all the spills and thrills of its predecessors, despite being something of a Hong Kong action film (set in Japan) but it somehow failed to really get really very interesting&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I would say that because super hero films are not <em>really<\/em> my scene, so being fair if you enjoyed the previous five films, you will thoroughly enjoy this one and tell me I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about!<\/p>\n<p>The Wolverine goes to visit a dying friend whom he saved from the Nagasaki Nuclear blast during WWII and suddenly starts to feel weak, like he&#8217;s almost losing his super powers&#8230;No its not from surviving a nuclear blast (that&#8217;s kids stuff) its a sinister plot which the film spends the next two hours or so unravelling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst I\u00a0have mildly enjoyed the X-Men series of films I think this latest instalment is milking the franchise somewhat. The film had all the spills and thrills of its predecessors, despite being something of a Hong Kong action film (set in Japan) but it somehow failed to really get really very interesting&#8230;. Of course I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/11\/19\/review-the-wolverine-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Wolverine (2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}