Super Abilities Second to Super Story

Rating: 10/10 (5 March 2017)

Bravo.
Encore! Encore!
This is what Wolverine is about, this is the Wolverine movie I'd been waiting for.
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" was alright. "The Wolverine" was about just as mediocre, but this... this was a masterpiece. This had depth, this had feeling, this had character.
Logan is an older, disheveled, drunker, surlier character with diminishing abilities. He is rock bottom. Probably not the ideal Wolverine but it makes his character so much more layered. This is a Wolverine you will be familiar with but maybe slightly impatient with as well. But one thing is for sure, this movie (hence Wolverine) benefited from an R rating. It wasn't an R rating just for the sake of cheap sexual jokes or gratuitous nudity, rather it was an R rating in order for Wolverine to be Wolverine: a cutthroat killer that uses his claws for more than just neatly puncturing people.
As for Charles Xavier, he is older and suffering from the effects of old age which has diminished his abilities as well as made him highly volatile. They are alone with hardly any mutants left and not much more to live for--that is until a girl named Laura (Dafne Keen) comes into their lives.
Dafne Keen is wonderful as the little Laura. She has limited lines but she commands the screen nonetheless. She was both adorable and formidable and an indispensable part of the story line.
If you're looking for non-stop action, this isn't the movie for you. If you're looking for a good story with structure and pace and some well placed potent action, then this is for you. The movie may have been slow for some, but I'm an adult and I can tolerate a slow movie that has a purpose.
This was so much grittier and realler than just about any comic book/superhero movie. There was no saving the world, no saving the galaxy, not even saving a small town, but there was saving--and there was sacrifice. I love the movies that aren't afraid to make us angry or make us sad. Not the cheap anger that comes with every bad guy, or the cheap sadness that comes with the death of a good guy. I mean those movies, such as this one, that can cultivate and build to make an authentic anger and an authentic sadness. Not everyone can be saved, not everyone lives happily ever after and not everyone changes for the better. We try to reach those in need of saving--both literally and figuratively--but some people you can't reach. This movie had that.
I could wax on much longer about this film I love it so much. For the sake of brevity I will conclude with this: Logan is that superhero movie done so well that the super abilities are second to the super story.