Review of Logan (2017) by Moviemitch96 — 04 Mar 2017

First thing's first. It may be by my own doing, but my extremely high expectations for this film going in led to a bit of disappointment in some areas. Don't get me wrong, this was easily the best solo Wolverine outing.

However, in my opinion, it's far from being the best X-Men film overall (personally, I enjoyed Days of Future Past and Deadpool the most.) Some have even gone as far as to say that this is Marvel's "The Dark Knight", and that it's just as good, if not, better than that film.

I certainly wouldn't go as far as to say that either unfortunately. Anyway, with all of that out of the way, this was still a solid and entertaining final outing for Wolverine with all of the grittiness and hard violence that the fans had asked for over and over again for the longest time, not unlike last year's "Deadpool" as well (btw, he does have his own humorous little intro at the very beginning of the film.

) Hugh Jackman is better than ever, with his portrayal of Wolverine feeling more humanistic and vulnerable than before. Like I said before, the action is top-notch and the violence and blood ever so present like what we had hoped for all this time in a Wolverine film.

The film did an excellent job of really getting things interesting and going in the first half with the story and action. However, it's the second half where my disappointment began to settle in, as the story, as well as the final 20-30 minutes in particular began to feel rushed and the ending also felt pretty underwhelming and rushed for me overall.

It definitely left me feeling that our silver-clawed friend deserved a much bigger sendoff rather than the underwhelming and rushed one that was given instead. Overall, this was still the best Wolverine film by far, but unfortunately, it didn't quite fully live up to the hype for me and I didn't find myself loving it like I had so hoped.

Nevertheless, it's still a very entertaining and action-packed addition to the X-men franchise, and one that allowed Hugh Jackman to give us a well-meaning and powerful final performance in his career-making role.