Wolverine: The James Mangold Restoration, The

For the content that was available, this was a great edit. The ending was a little abrupt for obvious reasons, but at the end of the day this is now my preferred way to watch this movie. Thank you.

I loved this!
I really appreciated the smaller scope this edit turned the movie into, and I wish the theatrical version leaned more in this direction.

This edit now has made it one of my favorite X-Men movies with the removal of Viper who I did not like very much, and the Silver Samurai fight which was just alright.

If only there was a way to make the ending feel not as abrupt, it would be all 10's for me. This will be my main version of this movie moving forward!

This was an interesting fan edit to watch. I will not go into details regarding the narrative changes as it was already mentioned in details by other fellow reviewers. Certainly one thing stands out here is Wakeupkeo's love for the original movie. He completely changed the mood of the movie. The film feels now like a neo noir super hero movie. It is better paced and a lot of unnecessary scenes have been trimmed to serve the new mood of the film.

I went into this fan edit clueless and had no prior knowledge on James Mangold struggle with the studio. This fan edit reminds me of Paul Schrader Dying of the light cut which elevates the orginal movie
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So is Silver Screen Samurai better than the original cut. Maybe not, but one thing is certain is.. Wakeupkeo ability on giving us a wonderful new take on the Wolverine. Well done and hope to see more edits from you in the future.

While I'm certainly glad that CGI mess of a third act was removed, there were still some minor issues with the narrative stemming from its removal. In the theatrical, the robot bug was placed in Logan's body by Viper. In this edit, how it got there was a mystery because of Viper's removal from the narrative.

I liked that the fight with the ninjas and Harada was re-contextualized to be almost like a fight between suitors of Mariko's affections- as Harada was a former lover of her's- but Harada's fate was never revealed in this edit, though it could be presumed Logan had killed him.

The transition from the snowblower explosion to the final dream sequence with Jean Grey was well done, but it took me a couple of rewatches of the scene to get that Logan had caused the explosion to take out the ninjas, then it knocked him out long enough for him to have his vision of Jean, and then he recovered to get Mariko, which then transitioned to the airport scene.

Overall, a very well done edit, but I feel removing some of the characters and removing the original third act and replacing it with the new one created its own share of narrative problems. It's still very much recommended, and I enjoyed it much more than the original.

An extremely well executed edit, and a significant improvement over the original. The only downside is the end feels a little abrupt, only because there isn't material to extend it further. All of the cuts were completely seamless, and everything looked and sounded great to me.

I've always had a soft spot for this film, so having this alternate version exist, and be executed so well, is a great thing.