Logan Film Review

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LAST CHANCE TO AVOID SPOILERS.


 Logan is the last movie that Hugh Jackman is doing as Wolverine, and what a movie it is.

Set in the distant future of 2029, a visibly aged Logan / Wolverine is seen as a staggering alcoholic who's healing capabilities are fading, his body seemingly being slowly poisoned by the Adamantium fused to his bone. He is using a job as a chauffeur and (implied) people-smuggler to get drugs across the border to quell Professor Xavier's seizures, with the worlds most powerful mind warped by a degenerative brain disease which is hinted to be either ALS or Alzheimer's, although not confirmed.

Also looking after Xavier is Caliban, played perfectly by Stephen Merchant, his sarcastic wit providing a perfect counterfoil for literally whoever he is put opposite in this movie, with everybody else being so serious.

Their arrangement is thrown into disarray when a Mexican woman keeps bothering him to take her and her mute daughter Laura (portrayed excellently by the 12 year old Dafne Keen) across the border to North Dakota to safety, as it transpires that the daughter is none-other than the "child" of Logan, born of his DNA in a laboratory who are trying to track down and terminate her.

Laura communicates with Xavier telepathically and after much nagging and emotional turmoil from Xavier, he agrees to take her across to North Dakota, pursued by an assortment of cannon-fodder bad guys (the Reavers) led by Donald Pearce who get shredded by Laura and Wolverine until more serious people come in to the fight.

It's at this point that the soulless, perfect Wolverine clone X-24 is unleashed, demolishing everything that comes in his way before being injured and forced to retreat to regenerate.

I should point out that this movie is intended for an adult audience. While the level of gore, language and violence doesn't quite reach Deadpool levels, it is pretty intense, especially if you were expecting a standard superhero movie.

After getting Laura to the meeting point with her friends, who help Logan recover. They give him enough serum to heal and regenerate as they leave him to attempt to cross over the border to Canada, however he discovers they are being attacked and rounded up by the Reavers so he takes all of the serum, flying into a rage and again shredding his way through the Reavers again before the serum wears off just before his final battle with X-24.

Needless to say, you can guess how this pans out, with this being Hugh Jackman's last Wolverine movie, however the manner of the final moments of the movie were very well done, and as Laura and the rest of her friends cross the border you can see that there's more to come from these characters.

The movie has the feel of an old futuristic western movie at times, slowly plodding through sentiment after sentiment giving us a thorough insight into the minds of Logan and Xavier, their long and troubled relationship coming to its conclusion in this "end of an era" movie, while still leaving us wanting more of the new generation of mutants.

If we were awarding scores, I'd say 7/10. At times it drags the sentiment out a little too long but the tension it creates does contribute to an emotional rollercoaster of a movie.

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