Meanwhile, good actors like Virginia Madsen and Danny Huston don't know if they're coming or going in double roles that make little sense in any reality.

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With Danny Huston as the devious Colonel Stryker, who, claiming he can make Wolverine indestructible, dips him in a glass laboratory bathtub and injects a substance called adamantium into his veins.

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Ten years later, just as Anna is about to marry a good-natured man (Danny Huston) who has patiently wooed her for years, a ten-year-old boy shows up and announces that he is Sean reborn.

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With Danny Huston and a mischievous Bill Nighy.

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His inquiries lead him to a private company that we instantly recognize as wicked, given that its boss is played by Danny Huston at his smoothest and that its offices are perched atop a hill, like the lofty lair of a Bond villain.

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