LOGAN (2017) review
I'm not one to be drawn to tears during a film as my rational mind reconciles that what i'm seeing on screen isn't really happening. And I didn't cry at the end of Logan. But I wanted to. The movie is a tender, respectful and fitting send-off to a character and actor that has struggled, experienced great loss and endured ungodly amounts of pain and suffering across the 15+ years we've had the pleasure of viewing him. Hugh Jackman deserves special appreciation for going out of his way to treat Wolverine with the same respect and reverence as we do. Eventually they will re-cast another actor as Weapon X but just as we look upon RDJ and see the first and best Iron Man, Jackman will always be the person associated with the beloved Wolverine. Jackman, we salute you (and want you to come back just one more time to pass the torch). As a card-carrying comic book nerd who was reading funny books way before superhero movies regularly grossed half-a-billion dollars at the box office, it is life-affirming to see Logan rise above traditional tights-and-capes tropes into something bigger than the sum of its genre parts. Dafne Keen steals every scene. Give her an X-23 movie.
Logan receives a score of 9/10 for both general audiences and anyone who might enjoy an action-packed but grounded and deeply intimate send-off to one of the most recognizable characters in modern film history.