Review of Logan (2017) by Sabotower — 16 Feb 2018

This movie is truly beautiful. Hugh Jackman and Sir Patrick Stewart pulled off their best performances as these characters. The new addition of Dafne Keene was perfect, and I can't wait to see her spinoff movie.

Director James Mangold nailed the dark, foreboding atmosphere without making it feel schlocky or edgy. The writing is also some of the best in any superhero or comic book movie ever, with each story beat landing perfectly and tearing at all of our collective heartstrings.

The deaths of Charles Xavier is one of the darkest and most powerful pieces of cinema to date. And of course, I must talk about the death of Logan. It is a showing of perfect cinema, with him finally succumbing to death after years of being unable to die.

Of course, the action is also spectacular, with the R rating really giving us the full affect. Both of the fights with X-24 are standouts, the sheer level of brutality making the audience squirm. I saw this movie in theaters, and at the end of the movie, nobody was talking or theorizing, the only sounds were people crying, myself included.

Overall, this movie is my personal favorite of all time, and I fail to truly see any of the problems that plague the superhero genre.