I'm going to make some enemies with this one.
I will admit that this movie was different from what we've seen with the character of Logan. But if you take everything off the fact that everyone got what they wanted, Wolverine yelling profanity, bloodily killing people in the way that Wolverine knows how to, you still get yet another sh*tty Wolverine movie.
In the distant future, which I guess we're now looking at three very different timelines from the first X-Men Trilogy to the reboot/sequel trilogy to the Wolverine trilogy, Logan is losing his powers, mutants are all but extinct, and he's a dad. Logan encounters a little girl with her own set of Wolverine powers to match, and she needs his help to safely cross the Canadian border. Logan halls Charles Xavier along as he is also dying. He is having seizures that could potentially kill anyone within, let's say, a half mile radius. So we get a generic running across the country movie as the bad guy, who created Laura the mutant girl, wants her back so that she can be destroyed. Apparently, the age of mutants is ending with not a single one being born in 25 years. Instead, they are being created in the lab the same way Wolverine has, and all of them are being broken out of the facility to a sanctuary in a place called Eden in Canada.
Along the way, they encounter the guy from ER and they accidentally get him killed because of the generosity he offers. Charles also gets killed in the process and Logan is left with a little mute girl. Who turns out to not be so mute after all. But she can lift him into a car, drive him to a medical facility, and even drive him out to the outpost where the other mutants are waiting to be gathered before making the trek across the border.
In the final showdown, Logan gets plunged into a tree by a mutant that's his own match and perhaps his own clone. As he lays dying, he is almost joyous that he now understands what dying feels like. And Laura buries him just minutes from Logan's home country. We never really get to know if they made it to Eden or not. We don't even know if Eden is even real. We're just left at Logan's burial site where Laurel has taken the cross and turn it on a side to where it makes an X instead.
I was not at all sad when Logan died because you guys are burned me out on that. It was everywhere for the last 2 years. I know Wolverine dies. Logan dies. Hugh Jackman has hung up the claws for the last time. So what? Who cares? And by the way, Logan was not the star of this movie; Laura was. She kicked more ass in her limited amount of screen time than Hugh Jackman ever did in 17 years of playing the role. She should have her own movie. I hope you guys are working on that maybe you should call it Laura.
Also, I thought the Johnny Cash song was weirdly placed. I know the trailer featured a Johnny Cash song, but that song was "Hurt." That mafe sense for the tone. Here, we're still getting used to the fact that Logan is dead, and now we're bopping to "When the Man Comes Around." To rub some salt into the wound, maybe you try "Cry, Cry, Cry."
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 8.1/10
Awards
Academy Awards
Saturn Awards
(Click here to view more awards for "Logan." )
Videos
How It Should Have Ended - How Logan Should Have Ended
CinemaSins - Everything Wrong With Logan in 17 Minutes or Less
Screen Junkies - Honest Trailers - Logan (Featuring Deadpool) - 200th Episode
I will admit that this movie was different from what we've seen with the character of Logan. But if you take everything off the fact that everyone got what they wanted, Wolverine yelling profanity, bloodily killing people in the way that Wolverine knows how to, you still get yet another sh*tty Wolverine movie.
In the distant future, which I guess we're now looking at three very different timelines from the first X-Men Trilogy to the reboot/sequel trilogy to the Wolverine trilogy, Logan is losing his powers, mutants are all but extinct, and he's a dad. Logan encounters a little girl with her own set of Wolverine powers to match, and she needs his help to safely cross the Canadian border. Logan halls Charles Xavier along as he is also dying. He is having seizures that could potentially kill anyone within, let's say, a half mile radius. So we get a generic running across the country movie as the bad guy, who created Laura the mutant girl, wants her back so that she can be destroyed. Apparently, the age of mutants is ending with not a single one being born in 25 years. Instead, they are being created in the lab the same way Wolverine has, and all of them are being broken out of the facility to a sanctuary in a place called Eden in Canada.
Along the way, they encounter the guy from ER and they accidentally get him killed because of the generosity he offers. Charles also gets killed in the process and Logan is left with a little mute girl. Who turns out to not be so mute after all. But she can lift him into a car, drive him to a medical facility, and even drive him out to the outpost where the other mutants are waiting to be gathered before making the trek across the border.
In the final showdown, Logan gets plunged into a tree by a mutant that's his own match and perhaps his own clone. As he lays dying, he is almost joyous that he now understands what dying feels like. And Laura buries him just minutes from Logan's home country. We never really get to know if they made it to Eden or not. We don't even know if Eden is even real. We're just left at Logan's burial site where Laurel has taken the cross and turn it on a side to where it makes an X instead.
I was not at all sad when Logan died because you guys are burned me out on that. It was everywhere for the last 2 years. I know Wolverine dies. Logan dies. Hugh Jackman has hung up the claws for the last time. So what? Who cares? And by the way, Logan was not the star of this movie; Laura was. She kicked more ass in her limited amount of screen time than Hugh Jackman ever did in 17 years of playing the role. She should have her own movie. I hope you guys are working on that maybe you should call it Laura.
Also, I thought the Johnny Cash song was weirdly placed. I know the trailer featured a Johnny Cash song, but that song was "Hurt." That mafe sense for the tone. Here, we're still getting used to the fact that Logan is dead, and now we're bopping to "When the Man Comes Around." To rub some salt into the wound, maybe you try "Cry, Cry, Cry."
Everybody knows where you go when the Wolv'rine's dead
Seeing him there will be a kick in the head
Hugh Jackman's done, now he's saying "bye, bye, bye"
When he turns around and walks away, you'll cry, cry, cry
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I hope you liked this. Be sure to subscribe and leave a comment about what you thought or if you want to recommend a movie for me to review. Thank you for reading. I'll return on Friday with another movie. See you then.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 8.1/10
Awards
Academy Awards
- Best Adapted Screenplay Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green - Nominated
Saturn Awards
- Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture - Nominated
- Best Actor Hugh Jackman - Nominated
- Best Supporting Actor Patrick Stewart - Winner
- Best Performance by a Young Actor Dafne Keen - Nominated
- Best Writing Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green - Nominated
- Best Editing - Michael McCusker & Dirk Westervelt - Nominated
(Click here to view more awards for "Logan." )
Videos
How It Should Have Ended - How Logan Should Have Ended
CinemaSins - Everything Wrong With Logan in 17 Minutes or Less
Screen Junkies - Honest Trailers - Logan (Featuring Deadpool) - 200th Episode
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