A gratuitous depression fest

Rating: 2/10 (17 February 2019)

In a nutshell, the acting is decent but the script and direction are awful. The quality of the "drama" is severely hampered by the absolute reliance on tired old cliches and a string of painfully predictable scenes. There isnt a single thing happening here that you don't see coming a mile away. But that's not the worst thing about this movie, because you wouldn't normally expect a superhero film to be some groundbreaking dramatic work.
I didn't like Logan because I found it very depressing and anticlimactic, and all of it done for no reason other than to be dark and gritty. If they were trying to go for a bittersweet sendoff, any sweetness is completely overshadowed by how depressing it all actually is.
After like 8 films with everything that happened, in the future all mutants have been outlawed and are almost extinct, everyone we know and care about seems to be dead, except Xavier and Logan who are both decrepit and dying and hiding in the desert, with insufficient explanation as to where and why it all went so horribly wrong. They both end up dying a violent death.
The mutant school, everything Xavier and the X-men did, all of their adventures, it was all ultimately for nothing. Nothing came of it. The world of the future is just awful and hopeless and the only mutants still alive in 2029 are the failed lab experiments made by Alkalai. Logan's character arc eventually brought him to a worse place than what he started off as - he's even more gloomy, more sad, more lonely, more sick and defeated than he ever was before, and he has sunken to the depths of despair so much that he's suicidal. He never got better, the world never got better, struggling was pointless, everything went downhill and then you die horribly and unceremoniously. What a great sendoff!
This film just presents an incredibly bleak fate for everyone, and there's ultimately no punchline for any of this. "Dark & gritty" does not automatically equal good.
Wolverine had a very painful, violent life. I feel that he deserves better in his old age than to drink himself to near death and then die on a hill murdered by his evil clone.