Logan marks the final Wolverine film for Hugh Jackman in the role and here he's working as a Limo driver hoping to make enough money to take him and an old Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) out to sea as the world is in decline and the X-Men are gone following a horrible incident but a little girl named Laura (Dafnee Keen) may change everything as she is being hunted by a dangerous organisation.
Logan is a bit of a mixed bag for me but before I delve into that I want to talk about what did work for me:
- First the action and the violence in this film is fantastic to watch, lots of slicing and dicing and people dying horribly and a lot (and I mean a lot) of blood is spilt here if you're a bit squeamish you might want to avoid this film as even I felt my head hurt a little bit after coming out of the film and I have a very thick stomach when it comes to violence in movies though it is very well filmed I will say one scene in particular gives the Quicksilver scenes in X-Men Days of Future Past and Apocalypse a good run for their money.
- And secondly a lot of the performances are very good here as well Jackman is a good as he ever was in this role and watching him here it's hard to believe that he's retiring from the role though you can understand why given he's done it for so many years, Stephen Merchant was pretty good as Caliban though Tomas Libertaque played him a little better in Apocalypse last year though the show stealers here are Stewart and Keen both are very good here and Keen in particular does a lot with very little dialogue and I hope she has a good career as an actress ahead of her.
But what holds this movie back from loving it for me is once again a Marvel related film has a very weak villain and both Boyd Holbrook and Richard E Grant are good actors their characters are pretty forgettable and their story is really nothing new that we saw in X-Men 2 where that film dealt with the Weapon X program and one part of their story in particular just made me go "What oh come on this is ridiculous."
And so is this endless string of boring villains in these superhero movies these days I mean whether it be this movie or Deadpool from last year or the Marvel Cinematic Universe and their library of boring and nothing villains save for Loki and that's really due to Tom Hiddleston (the perfect Vegeta from DBZ) so many of these films just constant fail over and over and over again in this crucial area and it just makes me feel so fucking sick to death of this genre which has become so dominant in the cinemas right now.
And it really REALLY makes me hope that the producer supreme Kevin Feige makes good to his word in regards to Thanos in Avengers Infinity War next year because if he doesn't then that entire MCU could well be for nothing to some but given how that universe like the X-Men series has always found a way to course correct for me I am willing to trust him on this front given his sincerity in the recent Infinity War video from last month.
But that aside Logan is worth seeing but its weak villains really hold it back for me and this was not a mistake that Bryan Singer made in his 4 X-Men films even Apocalypse, 2 and a half out of 5.
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