Wolverine's last stand!

Rating: 8/10 (12 March 2017)

Although Hugh Jackman was at his best in his final outing as the clawed mutant and Patrick Stewart's was great in his tragically powerful performance as a demented old Prof X, it is Daphne Keen as Laura Kinney (X-23) who stole the show. She was a cheeky little bad- ass.
While the action sequences with all the bloody slashing are intense and entertaining, the film mostly shines in its smaller character moments. At 2 hours and 21 minutes I never really felt the length, if anything I think it would have improved with more moments regarding the bond created between Logan, Charles and Laura. The film is atmospherically grim, quite bleak and the stakes here are more personal. This is purely an action drama in a western setting that never feels familiar with any other superhero film with some world ending beam to the sky scenario.
Although the film isn't without its flaws, the villains in particular are generically boring. But it doesn't matter too much in retrospect with Logan's journey. This is probably the best film to come from the X-Men verse.
8/10