Logan 2017 4 out of 10
I'm glad I didn't see this one in the
theaters. I know for some comic book fans this was the Wolverine movie
they wanted to see. Not being a comic
book fan I found myself completely bored
by this film. Logan takes place in the year 2029 in a future where the
mutants or X-Men are pretty much a thing of the past. So pretty
much a Wolverine that doesn't heal as fast anymore and Professor X who is an
ailing old man are left. Basically, all the other characters you may have
cared about are gone. It kind of makes you feel like you wasted a
lot of time caring about those other characters.
Wolverine
is a drunk old chauffeur who ends up with the task of driving a young mutant to
some place where she will be safe while being pursued by some shady military
types. The first 30 minutes of the movie nothing happens. I
was already losing interest at this point. Then finally we get a good action-packed
chase scene away from where they were hiding. I thought okay maybe this
movie was just off to a slow start, unfortunately I was wrong.
The
film was needlessly ultra -violent and
filled with curse words flying left and right. I have no problem
with cussing-- but when it is coming from characters you have seen in six other
movies in which they never cursed it feels out of place and strange. The
violence was that out of a Friday the 13th Slasher flick
The movie
just becomes a fugitive chase film scene of Professor X needing help in a gas
station restroom and then the characters making a stupid decision to spend the
night at the farm of a family that helped them. They needlessly put
this family at risk (and the whole family gets killed along with Professor
X). Wolverine battles a clone of himself called X-24 ---(I thought Sabretooth
was back). Then we get some more boring traveling
stuff.
Wolverine
who spends most of the movie being a grumpy old man (Get off my lawn) of course
ends up sacrificing himself at the end for the future mutants. At
the point he sacrificed himself I didn’t really care. I had already checked out mentally and
checked my watch at least 6 times to see how much longer the film was at that
point. In my opinion this was a disappointing
way to end these characters.
