Review of Logan (2017) by James M — 12 Jul 2017

Logan is the latest X-Men film starring Hugh Jackman in his final portrayal as Wolverine. It's also, the first movie featuring Wolverine to be Rated R. This movie is one of the darkest and deepest comic book films since The Dark Knight. Director James Mangold (The Wolverine) returns and writes Logan for an awesome end to Hugh Jackman's 17-year career as everyone's favorite X-Men character.

The story loosely adapts one of the best storylines, "Old Man Logan." Logan is old and beaten down. All of his fellow X-Men comrades are gone. He's also trying to take care of his father figure Charles Xavier from bizarre seizures. In his final adventure, Logan has to protect a girl named Laura, who has abilities just like him, from the government who are after her.

Hugh Jackman gave his best for last to show how deep and complex Wolverine became after all these years. He still has that rage and aggression inside of him. Same goes with Laura, played by Dafne Keen. She's fun to watch every time on screen. Patrick Stewart gives a gripping performance as Charles Xavier. He's weak, his powers are useless, and shattered. Charles at this point is basically crippled, which is something never seen before in the comics.

Logan has barely any hope. You're watching not just an action flick starring Wolverine, but also a serious drama at the same time. There is some humor added, but it's not like a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie where everything is bright and fun for everybody. No, 20th Century Fox's take on with their movies is focusing more on the adult audience. In fact, I don't recall any children today knowing the X-Men. One, they're not in the MCU, and two, no toys or action figures to sell for the kids.

As I said before, this movie is rated R. So much blood and gore throughout. Some people may say this was a bad choice. Well, to be fair, the Wolverine comics are pretty dark. Similar to Deadpool, the murk with the mouth, not made for kids whatsoever, since that was Rated R as well. By the way parents, do not bring your kids to see blood and guts. That's not in their blood. No pun intended.

The action is really, really good. These are some of the best action I've seen in the X-Men films, mostly no CGI is spotted. This means no cars flying, no robots destroying mutants, none of that is found in Logan at all. You can barely even tell if it is CGI or not. Wolverine goes beserk one everyone, by stabbing them in the face, chopping people's heads off, it's the perfect family film of the year.

Everything is great about Logan. However, it does have some flaws. For one, the villains are poorly developed. I really thought Omega Red was set to be the villain as thet said. Instead, we have Donald Pierce, portrayed by Boyd Holbrook. How did he recieved that robotic hand? The big boss revealing sucked as well. Don't worry, I won't spoil it, but it would've been a great twist if it were someone we knew from a previous movie. Never developed, never explained, nothing more, nothing less.

Overall, Logan is a tremendous action/drama movie for the adult audience. Here's what I have to say to Hugh Jackman. Thank you for bringing one of the best superhero portrayals ever. Without you as Wolverine, we wouldn't had this long running franchise that first started in 2000. See you around, bub. I'm giving Logan a 9/10.