Logan with Hugh Jackman as the Wolverine 4 Stars.
The Year is 2029 and Mutants aren’t the dominant force in the world they were once envisioned to be. In fact, they are a depressing shell of their former existence.
Logan (Hugh Jackman) seems like most bitter men his age drinking the days away and taking hourly hires for his chauffeured Limo service; he is desperate to hang on to and make a few bucks. His hot-headed temper is still very much there releasing the slashing claws of a berserk Wolverine bloodlust on anyone who crosses him. But unlike in the prime of his youth; he is ageing, getting weaker and slower to heal. Logan is in decay; it’s as if he is dying and he feels death will be his final release from a painful existence.
We know Logan, throughout the X-Men franchise, has a tough exterior but deep down he has a soft cuddly centre with a heart to match. As he admits in the movie; everyone he has loved has been taken from him. But true to form, he looks after and nurses a geriatric Charles Francis Xavier better known as Professor X; in a rusty silo on the outskirts of town.
The once versatile Charles (played by Patrick Stewart) is in a decrepit state that when he is not rambling or suffering delusions; he has seizures that seems to be able to generate a paralysing force upon everything within a mile radius. Like most aged and infirm patients; he needs his regular medication to stop the seizures and only Logan seems able to administer it.
Logan is approached by a Mexican nurse hoping to get a little girl to a safe place known as the Eden; supposedly a haven for child mutants across the Canadian border. She reveals there have been secret mutant experiments, with the aim of creating super soldiers, taking place in Mexico by a US multinational company Transigen under the direction of Dr. Zander Rice (played by Richard E. Grant).
They have escaped and the company’s elite security team (and endless Mexican foot soldiers that make up most of the body-bags) are in hot pursuit. Logan makes a promise (on Payment) to get them to Eden and gradually develops a bond with the child (played well by Dafne Keen) who has special powers (and a hot tempered ferocity) similar to her new protector; even Logan is impressed.
This was the best of the Wolverine movies; good plot and character driven. The ending was a fitting symbolic gesture to the life and legacy of Wolverine; the best known of the X-Men characters.
I enjoyed this movie and gave it 4 stars.
Take Care & Cheers.
Jason
Director: James Mangold.
Written by James Mangold, Michael Green & Scott Frank.
