Logan
Great Movie!!
An amazing movie, it seems like the Wolverine franchise is hitting a stride, so it’s too bad that Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart said this would be their last one.
X-men origins: Wolverine is set in the past, The Wolverine is set in the present, while Logan is set in the future, where mutants have been wiped out and have become comic book legends (literally, the X-men are a comic book within the movie). The best there is is now a limo driver just trying to lay low, until he meets a young mutant who needs his help getting to a safe heaven.
Though there are elements that suggest the movie was adapted from The Old Man Logan Saga, because the Avengers are apart of that story 20th Century Fox had to adjust it to an original one.
The filmmakers go for a hard R with this movie with Wolverine and even Professor Xavier laying down some F bombs that will shock you and have you amused after being use to the PG-13 version for the past 17 years.
But the most important part is that the R rating allows Logan to go into full berserk rage that we Thought we saw in X2, but once you see Logan you’ll realize you did not. It was violent and brutal, perfect Wolverine, and the best fight and action sequences I have seen from the X-Man in the movie.
I also like that this movie got to showcase Patrick Stewart’s version of Charles Xavier far more than any of the other movies. He was always more of a side show in the other films especially in comparison to Logan.
For those of you who are fans of the comic, like The wolverine (and most of the X-men movies really) the focus on Wolverine means that a lot of other mutants from the comic don’t get a chance to get adapted to the movies (Does not help that the plot is about the fact that mutants were wiped out). Wolverine battles the Reavers (who are Cyborgs not mutants) in this movie mostly. However, we do get to see the first appearance of X23 in this film which was perfect and bad ass .Once again, the R Rating assured the best adaption of the character made it to the film.
It’s an amazing movie and a great Wolverine story. When Jackman was chosen to be the Wolverine I thought he was so wrong for the part, now seventeen years later I’m sad that he’s retiring from the role.
