A decent film but rubbish for X-Men standards

Rating: 7/10 (9 June 2019)

Overall I felt this film was a poor and pretty unemotional end to the best X-Men character ever. I never jump on the bandwagon for the sake of trying to have a popular opinion and I won't be talking much about the acting and the screenplay and all the relatively meaningless things professional reviewers talk about in their reviews, the things that mostly make a film enjoyable are it's characters and story, all the other aspects are relatively meaningless, this just common sense. Though with the way other reviewers talk about them in their reviews a brain dead human would think their more important than the story for a film.
Moving on, I thought the acting overall was nothing special but nothing majorly bad either, Hugh Jackman's and Patrick Stewart performance was very good as usual though and for that I'll give the acting a 7/10, as the acting in my eyes only contributes to about 5-10% of how good a film is of course Hugh Jackman's and Patrick Stewart's great efforts are hardly meaningful to how good the film is.
I think Logan's ridiculously overrated, Logan's my least favourite X-Men film. I just didn't connect to any of the new characters and whilst it had Professor X and Wolverine in it the film didn't utilise their full potential. They could've had Sabretooth in it at the end and it could've been so much more tragic and emotional but no instead they had to have the one dimensional Wolverine clone as the villain which got hardly any character development and a random girl as one of the main characters who frankly had barely any personality so I found her pretty boring. There was literally no good and memorable characters in the film apart from Professor X and Wolverine, this is the main reason why it's my least favourite X-Men film. Zander Rice or whatever his name is was completely unmemorable as he was a one dimensional simple villain that had no memorable scenes or lines whatsoever, he had hardly any character development as the viewers didn't find out barely any of his backstory nor his father which they should've done as Wolverine killing his Dad was supposed to make him hate mutants but it's difficult to know exactly why when we know nothing about his Dad or what Zander knew about his Dad and really all his character was a person who wanted all mutants killed and that's it so he was a pretty boring villain.
The Wolverine clone for the pretty much the same reasons wasn't a good villain but I do think the Wolverine clone was a better villain than as at least the Wolverine clone could fight well and therefore give us entertaining action scenes. But strip away all the fancy action scenes the Wolverine clone gave us and what you have is a character that we nearly know nothing about and he seems to be a one dimensional overly simplistic villain that simply wants to kill everyone he doesn't like. Laura was a character that seriously lacked any real creative thought put into it as I can literally sum up her character in one sentence. She was simply a mutant girl who had been experimented on and never knew her parents, she has what I'd say is an average boring personality but with a bit of a temper. I can't speak for the average X-Men fan but that sort of character just bores me, not just for the lack of quality in the character but also the huge lack of stuff we know about her character.
The film wasn't that complex as the villains were very simplistic one dimensional characters we barely know anything about and whilst Wolverine and Professor X are complex characters with huge backstories their roles in the film weren't that complex, they were simply dying and fighting for survival, pretty basic stuff there. I think Professor X's battle with dementia and his arguments with Wolverine were the only somewhat complex parts of the film, so the film is pretty basic and therefore leaves hardly anything to deeply think about. I did like some of the jokes though, Professor X in particular made me a laugh a few times in the film so that was nice, Professor X's role in the film was probably the most complex in this film with his battle with dementia, but Wolverine's role was the most emotional.
The film, surprisingly wasn't that emotional for me, even Wolverine's death at the end was only slightly emotional for me as Wolverine was killed by a character we knew nothing about and his death didn't really affect anyone because Wolverine at the time of death only had Laura in his life whom he barely knew about, so the other characters didn't lose a lot when Wolverine died and I think that's the main reason why his death wasn't as tragic as it could've been. If Wolverine died in the hands of Jean Grey with the entire X-Men team crying at his death that would've been emotional but his real death was nothing like that. In fact his death was almost like mercy for him at the stage he died as let's face it his life was like living hell at the point he died so I wasn't very emotional at all when he died, half-relieved and half-sad more like. Simply put the emotion just wasn't there with this film, beyond a few laughs I was pretty emotionless so this film definitely didn't connect with me.
Wolverine and Professor X were as usual great characters, I enjoyed the aspect of viewing a weak and dying Wolverine, it was fresh and somewhat interesting. The action scenes were quite good too, particularly the final fight between Wolverine and his clone. However the Wolverine and Prof X could've been so much more, a great character can be so much more enjoyable if they interact with other great characters, so after Professor X you had one great character in the film talking to a load of pretty meaningless strangers really so whilst they were both great they were seriously under utilised. It would've been a lot better if Magneto and Sabretooth were in it, it would've been great to see Charles and Erik as well as Logan and Victor getting over their differences and their hostility to one another and becoming friends again for the greater good. At the end it would've been much better if Sabretooth was part of the final battle at the end battling some other villain and witnessed his brother's death, promising the dying Logan that he'll look after the mutant kids and protect them from Transgien.
I don't know why people like this film so much, I guess people somehow connect to random characters that are practically strangers and find random strangers interesting somehow. Overall this film had the potential to be one of the greatest films ever and in my eyes was a stunning example of a wasted opportunity. It was a decent film because of the great action sequences, a few laughs and 2 great characters but as it's an X-Men film I was thoroughly disappointed in it.