Hugh Jackman's best performance yet

Rating: 8/10 (25 March 2017)

Logan is the darkest of the X-Men/Wolverine series. Thankfully, it is more realistic than its predecessors. When Wolverine cuts loose there is blood and split heads and body parts flying all over the place - instead, as with earlier series, one barely saw a blood spatter. Logan is dark because Wolverine is battling himself in this rendering more so than ever. He doesn't want be what he has become and the battle that rages inside is killing him. Without spoiling the movie, a surprise player appears and she gives Logan a new injection of life and purpose. The fighting scenes are pretty thrilling, the twists are good, but for reasons which are inexplicable the creator decided to enter a short segment with a bunch of young kids living alone in the wilderness, happily surviving on hot dogs, smiling and all clean and normal, like, "What!!?" as if they had all the luxuries of life in the middle of nowhere!!! That one small segment was like injecting some scene from the Wizard of Oz into the middle of Platoon. Nonetheless, Logan delivers up. It is heartfelt and Jackman delivers his best performance ever. His acting is sincere, the pain he feels, you feel, and the conflict that roils through him to the last scene of the movie is indelible until the end. But please, no more Wizard of Oz - this is real life, lots of killing and blood... I mean, duh.