Rather than racing to the next set piece, it’s willing to sit still there are plenty of meditative and moody moments between the action.
Compared to the breakneck pace of such films, The Wolverine is a downright quiet movie.
The MCU has been criticized by some for its mile-a-minute comedy, where serious moments often don’t last long enough to land. However, for the most part The Wolverine does not feel like a film trying to emulate Marvel Studios. The influence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe isn’t totally absent take the post-credits scene here that sets up X-Men: Days of Future Past. As a result, it feels like a product of the small sliver of time - post-The Dark Knight but pre-Avengers - when studios were trying to make more “serious” superhero movies and TV rather than building cinematic universes. The Wolverine debuted just over a year after The Avengers changed superhero movies forever.
