Dismal, Violent and Sad

Rating: 7/10 (16 March 2017)

In 2029, mutants have been extinct and Logan (Hugh Jackman) works as a limousine chauffeur in Texas near the border with Mexico. Logan lives in an abandoned plant with the mutant Caliban (Stephen Merchant), who was a tracker, and they take care of the senile Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), who does not have control of his telepathic ability and needs to use drugs to stay calm. One day, Logan is attending a funeral and a woman called Gabriela (Elizabeth Rodriguez) call him Wolverine but he does not give attention to her. Soon the bounty hunter Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook) meets Logan and asks to help him to find an eleven year-old girl called Laura (Dafne Keen) that is with Gabriela. Logan is contacted again by Gabriela and she asks Logan to drive Laura and her to a place called Eden in North Dakota and she offers to pay for his service. The reluctant Logan accepts the job but Gabriela is murdered. He returns to the place where he lives and finds Laura there with Professor Xavier and Caliban. However Pierce returns with a group and Laura uses abilities similar to Logan to escape with Professor Xavier and Logan, but Caliban is captured by Pierce and his men. While heading to Eden. Logan discovers that Gabriela was a nurse in the Transigen Corporation taking care of children developed with abilities by Dr. Zander Rice (Richard E. Grant). When the Transigen decided to shut down the program and kill the children, Gabriela and the other nurses released them and now Laura intends to join her friends. Will they find the sanctuary?
"Logan" is the swan song of Wolverine and Professor Charles Xavier in a dismal, violent and sad film. The plot is totally different from the genre with a dark story and unpleasant hero. The road trip showing two former superheroes protecting a girl with abilities is not original, but the cruel fate of the family that welcomes them in their home is. In the end, "Logan" is a well-made film too somber for a comic book adaptation. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Logan"