Film Review: Logan

Directed by: James Mangold

Written by: Michael Green and David James Kelly

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Dafne Keen, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Merchant, and Boyd Holbrook

The Positives

Logan

Personal rating – 95%

Woah! This movie completely broke the mold of usual quippy superhero movies that we know. While we may love these movies, sometimes we need an actually deep and emotional film, and this is that film. It is dark, it is brutal, it is touching, it is funny, it is everything! It perfects and legitimizes the superhero genre while also managing to do the one thing that it seems no superhero movies candy these days: be a standalone film! It doesn’t set up anything or hint at other movies throughout the narrative, it is a drama that stands alone as a beautiful film. It had very stern tones and very intriguing action along with deep and meaningful subject matter and a character that will stand the test of time: Logan.

Hugh Jackman Logan

This performance tied for best superhero movie performance of all time on my personal list, tying with Heath Ledger’s joker from The Dark Knight. Hugh Jackman was haunting I this Role, going from slightly harsh and unlikeable at the start to a lost and unbelievably touching character at the end. Hugh Jackman’s beautiful portrayal of Logan slowly brought you to an understanding of the character and his motivations. While he seemed rude at the beginning, he eventually made viewers feel sympathy and deep love for the character. After all, we expected a good performance from the man who has been recognizable as “Wolverine” for 17 years.

Patrick Stewart Professor X

Professor X, the world’s greatest brain, has a brain disease. Wow. Patrick Stewart gave a faithful and realistic performance as an aging and frail Charles Xavier. This film is a great final chapter to that character who has been, like wolverine, on the screen for an extremely long time. He gave an extremely tear jerking performance, really making audience members not only love the character but really want to know more about him. He gave an amazing final performance and will be remembered for this absolutely great performance.

The R Rating

While R rating pa don’t really enhance most movies, this movie would not have worked if it were PG-13. The violence added a lot to Logan’s constant insecurity of hurting to many people and helped to actually show audience members why he feels so guilty about it.

The Tone

The dark tone helped to support the violence and cursing along with the more gritty aspects of the character of Kogan.

The (Very Few) Negatives

The Writing

Now the writing wasn’t bad, not even a little. At times, however, it got a bit cheesy. Sometimes we’re very predictable and there was a lot of rephrasing of lines that were said earlier. Even though the rephrasing added elements to some scenes, in some scenes it just felt like repetition.

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