Senile adventures.

Rating: 1/10 (18 April 2017)

Warning - outright spoilers, as I will bring the silly and plot-crucial moments here.
By all means, I will agree that the movie is shot very well. Language, blood, action scenes, acting - everything is very, very solid. A real breakthrough after most of Marvel comedy.
So why 6\10? Because I couldn't watch this movie without twitching. Scratching my head in disbelief, wondering "what the fancy are they doing?"
-Antagonists. They seem to enjoy going out on their own. They have supermutants, cyborg soldiers, but in every situation - you'll see some top hat just standing there for... reasons. When first you see the big guy meet Logan, it gets clear that it's going down. Logan should pack his bags, pronto. And that the guy is probably bada** enough to stand up to Wolverine, since he was completely alone, completely d*ckwad and knew pretty much everything he needed. What happens next time we meet him? He is knocked out by a metal object. That's it. He's not a mutant, he's not some end boss, he's just a douche. And what is Logan's decision? Asking his indispensable tracker to... drive him away and dump him. WOW. I just sat there with my jaw open. Is that a bloody killer Wolverine's reaction to an enemy, who he knows is "already" going to kill him? Is that a G-level of approach undertaken in a R-rated movie? What the...
Of course, this... madness... Leads to the meat of this movie - tracker is used to hunt Logan, the bad guy is always there show his useless face. If he'd have killed him there, you probably wouldn't need to continue with the movie.
Same goes for the main scientist, who is there to kind of leash a pet, and who just stands next to armed Logan, explaining how evil he is. Wow. I thought that trope got old a couple decades ago. At least now Logan acts quickly, so the trope is kind of redundant, but the question is... Why include this character to begin with? Doesn't add anything to the movie.
And then the big bad wolf(erine). Was he adamantium-boned? Or was he just the same genetic offspring of Logan? His face was already pummeled by an almost point-blank shotgun blast, which didn't reveal the skull. Yet... when a an adamantium bullet is shot through Magnum - half his skull goes off. We've seen Logan survive this kind of shot before. He was mostly alright. And we don't know much about about big bad wolv. Yet suddenly this is a deus ex, a very pointless deus ex, on many levels. When all the kids combine their powers to kill a "human", one would wonder - why not just kill the big bad wolv? Or at least knock it out? Telekinesis, freezing - there are methods... Overall the final scene is very, very lackluster.
-Protagonists. Xavier sure takes his sweet time to reveal anything remotely worthwhile, making enraged Logan a protracted trend throughout the movie. Making everything a painful guess. He is shown to be able to communicate and sense mutants, yet what about tracker? What about big bad wolv? What about other kids? When they stopped at every worst corner, prompting the casino scene, the family butcher scene, I just wondered... "why". I think Man of Steel would cringe at the level of carelessness here. They wanted to get lost in a casino? Gee, great, with that level of hunting on them, they'd be sure to wipe out everyone in casino if need be. Of course, Logan takes his sweet time in pub, because it's not like he has barely escaped out of his own house... And, of course, the family dinner. I understand why was the plot line involved, but... why make it so incredibly dumb? If Xavier was too old to think straight, maybe Logan could've said something precise. They wasted a whole family on a stupid whim. And, of course, big bad wolv had to just stand there and listen to Xavier, to give surprise at what comes next. Except for when you think about it, he would have no reason to, besides allowing a kind of sad exposition.
-The Finale. I've mostly described everything, except for Logan's...well. Kids already were shown to have this weird green medicine. There were trucks around, probably carrying this stuff. Damn it, even Hishe ridiculed two of the moments I described, for good reason. Couldn't they show kids looking for the medicine? Giving at least some "fancy" about it? No... it was almost as stupid as Han Solo's ... well, in Episode VII.
So, to conclude, the movie is shot very well, very gritty and realistic. But I think the writing took some lessons from Prometheus or Gravity... for whatever reason. And it ruined some impression, as well as left an aftertaste. People compare this movie to TDK, and, frankly, not even close. No. Just... no. In the same league, perhaps, but this is a 2 hour "wut", not a grand movie.