10 Ways That Fox Can Make Sure The Wolverine 3 Is An Instant Classic

3) Avoid The Bombastic Climax

It’s something the vast majority of modern superhero movies – and indeed blockbusters in general – are guilty of. No matter what’s come before, no matter where the film appears to be heading, it seems it’s a rule that the movie simply has to end with an explosive final action scene, one that tops everything previous, no matter how nonsensical.

To see how detrimental this can be to a film, there are few better recent examples than The Wolverine: for the most part a smaller-scale, rougher, more soulful kind of superhero drama, that throws in a ridiculous twist and some half-assed bombastic action for the finale. Wolverine 3 doesn’t need to be intimate all the time, but neither does it have to go out with a bang just because all the other movies are doing it. And if there is to be an explosive send-off, it at least needs to be organic to the story as a whole.