Logan Review

Rating: 10/10 (12 December 2017)

The movie Logan brought a dramatic and fitting conclusion to the Wolverine series. The 20th Century Fox film features Hugh Jackman as Logan, Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier, Dafne Keen as Laura Kinney, and Boyd Holbrook as the main antagonist Donald Pierce. Hugh Jackman also plays the part of the bioengineered clone of X-24, made by Transigen. The director of this film was James Mangold. The movie is classified under action, science fiction, and drama and was released March 3, 2017. This movie earned an R rating and was the only film in the series to do so.
This movie follows Logan, the Wolverine, in 2029 North America, where nearly all of mutantkind are dead. He is tasked with transporting Laura Kinney, his daughter, from the Mexican border to the Canadian border to meet up with her friends and travel across the border to the refugee camp called Eden. Logan, Laura, and Professor Charles Xavier begin their journey and are immediately and constantly pursued by Donald Pierce and his company Transigen, who want to kidnap and destroy Laura and her friends because they are mutants. The group stops for the night north of Oklahoma City with a family that offered them their home where Pierce and X-24 attack, killing Charles Xavier. After a quick burial, Logan and Laura meet up with the other young mutants as they prepare to cross the border, where Pierce and X-24 attack again, where Pierce is killed by the young mutants and Laura killing X-24 with an adamantium bullet. Logan dies from wounds he sustained during the fight and the kids hold a funeral before crossing to Canada.
Purchasing the movie physically or digitally includes the Logan Noir option, which is the same as the original film but in, black and white, to give it even more of the feel of an old western that director James Mangold wanted. This grayscale helps to enhance the mood of the movie as well as represent that Logan is also aged, yet still a classic, much like many black and white western movies.
The cast of the movie was chosen very well, mostly because of the characters included in the movie. The directors thought that it would be better to keep a major supervillain out of the movie to show that sometimes heroes do not need to save the world, that saving just one person does not make them any less of a hero. Two of the main actors were brought back from other films, Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart. Most of the other actors were not well known, so it is easy to avoid associating them with other works. This was Dafne Keen's first major role and has introduced her to the world in a great way.
Hugh Jackman was cast as the Wolverine and X-24 and helps to symbolize that Logan's biggest enemy is himself. At the end of the movie, after the children bury Logan and leave for the border, Laura comes back to his grave and turns the cross made by the children on its side, making it an X. This symbolizes that above all, Logan is one of the X-Men. It also symbolizes the finality of the series. Logan is the last X-Man, and his death represents the end of their time, the end of mutants.
The film Logan brings the best and most complete conclusion to a series that watched the generation of X-Men fade away. The Wolverine was widely considered the main X-Man, and he was certainly the last. The movie shows the finality of the series and brings a fitting end to one of Marvel's most beloved characters.