Wolverine has always been the most popular X-Man. He was shown a lot in X-Men 1-3 and even given his own movie, X-men Origins: Wolverine. Now they've already made a sequel to it!
In Wolverine: Chasing The Phantom, the director decided to go a really weird direction with the series. It portrays the super hero mutant as an actual wolverine. The film starts out with this narrator saying "Wolverine has been branded with a hell of a reputation, but who really is this demon of the north?" So I thought it would follow more of his back story, but it doesn't. It just shows him running around in the snow eating animals and stuff.
Who do you think the villain is in this movie? Sabertooth? Magneto? That pterodactyl guy? No! It's a bunch of weird hunters that just stalk him and follow him around taking notes and stuff on what he's doing. Who the heck are these people??? They're refered to as "researcher" characters (remember them from the comics? No, didn’t think so) and they just ramble on forever.
There's a weird plot point where they put a radio collar on him and track him from a helicopter. You're probably thinking this is where the big fight scene is, where Wolverine takes his claws out and starts cutting stuff up and doing his “berserker rage!”. Nope! They just watch from a safe distance and make observations on what he's doing. What the heck??
Who’s the Phantom? There's no phantom in this movie. This is the weirdest comic book to movie adaptation I have ever seen. I've never been so confused. I was surprised at first to see a Wolverine movie had been made with out my knowledge but after watching this pile of trash I'm not surprised. Marvel was probably ashamed of this and just dumped it on DVD with no promotion, hoping no one would find out about it. What a waste of time. This movie deserves my lowest score possible, ** two stars