Aaaa OK. Its good. And that's it.

Rating: 8/10 (3 March 2017)

LOGAN - MAY BE , m NOT SURE , but MAY BE , HIGH EXPECTATION is the reason which spoiled the movie for me. Its good , true , but people are comparing it with THE DARK KNIGHT and TERMINATOR . And that's too much to say. Just because its dark , serious and totally ignores MARVEL kind of comedy , doesn't makes it as good as THE DARK KNIGHT. And I will be one of the few persons who will say LOGAN is not GREAT.
Let me tell you in this way. If somebody ask me whats the story of THE DARK KNIGHT or DARK KNIGHT RISES or even BATMAN BEGINS , it will take me a long time to tell the story. Because there were some long and complicated stories there. But if someone ask me whats LOGAN's story , i will tell him this - Its about Old LOGAN who doesn't recovers from injuries like before , have pain in his knees , bad eyesight , trying to take care of PROFESSOR X and who gets a task of saving a girl and delivering her to a safe place. And the movie becomes a ROAD MOVIE. And that's it , with reaching that destination , having action and bringing it to an end. The plot is very thin , they try to elevate it with screenplay which i think couldn't have been any better with this plot. Which make me afraid for some future project , because MICHALE GREEN one of the screenwriter of this movie , has already written three big upcoming movies (ALIEN COVENANT , BLADE RUNNER 2049 and MURDER ON THE ORIENTAL EXPRESS).
I particularly didn't disliked anything in the movie , but many things are just average. But there were some good even great things too. For a start , two action scenes , one in first 45 mins and 2nd at the climax were pretty great. And done with minimum special effects used just for Gore , Blood and Cuts(like cutting the head from the neck). Totally felt real. Will be a dream come true for Wolverine fans. But then again JUST TWO ACTION SEQUENCES , that too of 15-20 min long , not like more then half n hour never ending action sequences from Avenger. Just two action set pieces didn't quite satisfy me. There must have been at least two more.
HUGE JACKMAN in his last performance and LOGAN , a character he has been playing since 17 years , gave his all in the performance. Its not just the makeup but the tiredness in the expression of Jackman's face which actually make him looked OLD. His 'I DON'T CARE , ITS NOT MY PROBLEM' attitude makes us to feel that , he has seen plenty of things in life and now he doesn't care for anybody else . And yes , the aggression in the last action piece was great. Nothing more couldn't have been expected from JACKMAN . Although i would like to add that , even if i like HUGE JACKMAN pretty much as actor(not among my fav though) , the truth is that except playing WOLVERINE , he has done very few good movies , and i don't know what he will do without this character.
PATRICK STEWART is always good as PROFESSOR X (although i like the younger professor x more) , he was pretty good as a father figure to LOGAN in this. Also the FATHER-SON relationship(about which the movie also mocks a little) show in the movie was not very deep but little emotional which this kind of movies doesn't show. But again it doesn't go further in it , didn't explores it as much that it makes me cry.
X 23 or LAURA the new character is the movie was real BADASS. Not that much of an emoting character , she didn't said any dialogue until the last third act of the movie , which makes her relationship with LOGAN a little emotionless like she is not a HUMAN rather a ROBOT , but when she starts to talk , its compensate a little what the previous two acts fail to do. BUT and this is a BIIIIG 'BUT' , she was just outstanding in action scenes. Much more anger then LOGAN himself. And it would be great to watch her future story with a lot of actions.
One great thing about the movie was that it hasn't been made as a SUPERHERO movie rather made as a WESTERN genre film. Same as DARK KNIGHT had been made as CRIME THRILLER. But the problem was that , JAmes MANGOLD (the director , who is actually the director of my fav WESTERN GENRE FILM '3:10 TO YUMA') goes too far with it. He should have made it like a SUPERHERO being in a WESTERN scenario , rather he turn it into a total WESTERN film , having the only difference being the TWP ACTION SEQUENCES and the fact that out Heroes were not riding HORSES rather driving TRUCK. There was a whole section where they stop to eat dinner with some locals who invite them , which turn out to be such a bad decision and was a foolish thing to do from the start. That whole section was too boring.
The background score did nothing to elevate the scenes except the climax action piece .
I have just seen 2 days ago FANTASTIC BEAST AND WHERE TO FIND THEM , which had some exceptional piece of writing, which reminded me , this kind of writing can also be done in blockbuster film too. So sorry LOGAN fans , but i expect more.
. 7.1/10
by ANuP APu KuMaR.