But, on the opposite end of the spectrum, I think any Wolverine movie that isn't rated NC-17 because of brutal violence is weak. For characters like that, they should always be true to the nature of the character...
They can have Wolverine rack up a bodycount without it needing to be NC-17 or even R, depending on how they film it. Use the right camera angles and some lighting, and we can have Wolverine chopping up people left and right without needing to go overboard on blood and guts.
Remember when Wolvie had Mariko's father shingen his swan song in the Frank Miller mini-series, back when Miller could write? We know what happened to Shingen, and we know it was bloody, but we never saw the death blow. It was actually cool that way, because our minds fill in what we don't see.
This is not vengeance. This is pun-ishment.
"The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability." — Edgar Allan Poe
