Hugh Jackman's finest hour

Rating: 7/10 (23 July 2017)

The most downbeat of all the XMen movies but a good effort. From the beginning it is apparent Wolverine is not well, and Prof Xavier is fading. The glory days of the mutants are long gone, as are most of the mutants. It falls on Wolverine to save a kid, a mutant created by humans.
Hugh Jackman is superb, as is Patrick Stewart. The little girl who plays the young mutant does a great job too. The film is violent, graphically so. This movie is to the XMen franchise what 'MacCabe&Mrs Miller' was to the Western - a deconstruction of the genre.
One of the better XMen films certainly. Worth watching.