Review of Logan (2017) by Kman5473 — 05 Mar 2017

A welcome addition to an already saturated genre, continuing a movie series that everyone thought was all but exhausted of any chance of a sequel being good and remarkably creative. Logan achieves what all other Wolverine-Centric X-Men films all failed to do: make you actually care about what the heck is going on in this ultra violent, ultra science fiction world.

Gone are the extremely convoluted, over-ambitious science-based plot points and bloated cast of mutants. Instead, everything is focused on exactly what is most important to this story: Wolverine, Xavier, Laura.

All the fat of quicksilver and blah, and who else can we squeeze into this terrible story to make an extra buck--it's all been cut out. This is a mature film; it goes down like a sip of properly aged whisky: bold, sophisticated, and not for the faint of heart.

The only real complaint I have is that the ultimately bloody end of this film felt abrupt after watching the film once; I was expecting an additional 5-20 minutes to completely solidify the end of the most favorite X-Men character's arc.

Instead, we get a fairly quick last moments of Wolverine with his daughter, the two finally using the familial terms they never had the privilege to use, and then he's buried. That's it. Maybe it's because the movie was so good that I wanted more? Eh, I'll just buy it when it gets released from home entertainment.

Even if you were as skeptical as I was about this movie, go see it. It will impress you.