Sunday, March 19, 2017

Review: ‘Logan’

Logan is a great movie. It is a perfect sendoff to the character of Wolverine as well as the actor who has played him for almost two decades. Sadly, this movie also serves as a cold reminder of all the great films we could have had in this universe if they cared as much about them as they seemed to have with Logan.

I’m certainly not a big X-Men fan, even in the comics. I can confidently say that there are two good X-Men movies, X-Men: First Class and now Logan. Part of why both of those movies work is due to them not caring about the twisted and broken story lines set up in the previous movies. This film barely touches upon anything from the earlier films, including those from Wolverine’s own trilogy. Imagine how much better this movie would have been if they didn’t have to make you forget about everything in the past to let you enjoy it. I want to live in a world where all those previous films give weight and importance to the last time we see Hugh Jackman as Wolverine on screen. Instead we must live in this period of cognitive dissonance about all those shitty movies that this actor was in playing this same role.

It’s probably telling that as soon as Logan branches out of its bare-bones story and adds in more characters the movie starts to feel a little strained. If it wanted to, Logan could act as a jumping off point for a whole other series of films. I hope to god it doesn’t. Let the legend of Logan rest in peace.

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by Christopher Moore
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