Review of Logan (2017) by Drlowdon — 13 Mar 2017

Last year’s Deadpool movie proved there is a market for more adult orientated and violent comic book movies and Logan backs that up with a movie that ranks amongst the best Marvel Studios have created. Set in the near future, in which mutants are no longer born, Logan (aka Wolverine) is driving a limousine for a living whilst caring for an ailing Charles Xavier. When he is contacted by a woman caring for a young girl, that she claims is her daughter, Logan and Xavier are forced out of hiding to in order to help.

Logan has is as much a western or a road as it is a superhero film and this really helps set it apart from what has started to become a slightly over-familiar structure for Marvel films. This approach also carries over into the action/fight scenes that, as well as being more bloody and brutal than you’ll see in other Marvel movies, rely less on CGI and are all the more effective for it. Hugh Jackman is as good as ever as Wolverine and the on screen chemistry between him, Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Laura (the superb Dafne Keen) really helps give the movie a further edge by making it easy to actually care about what happens to these characters. If this is to be Jackman’s last appearance as Wolverine he’s certainly gone out on a high note.