The easiest 5/5 I have ever rated. The best Wolverine movie till date, and arguably one of the best Superhero movies to come out of Hollywood.

Rating: 10/10 (5 March 2017)

LOGAN is the best Wolverine movie till date, and arguably one of the best Superhero movies to come out of Hollywood. This movie is everything we wanted from this genre and more.
The drastic shift of this franchise towards an R-rated film, as well as the first Red-band trailer was enough to draw its fans crazy. The morbid serenity and the macabre loneliness exuding from the trailer accompanied by that painful country music hooked us up to the movie from the get go.
The premise of the movie itself showcasing an old, wearied-out and tattered Wolverine when the majority of the mutants in the world have been flushed out is extremely fascinating and honest. As fans, we all know that although Wolverine has an extremely prolonged life because of his powers, there must come a time when all of his friends have lived their life, and he is left with the scathing memories of days past, friends lost, people he has harmed, and the pain he has suffered.
Oh man how beautifully they have depicted all of it! What better than the same material which was injected in him to create an invincible weapon, could be the device of his slow but sure deterioration. Add to it the emotional turmoil he has gone through for centuries, he has nothing to lose. Hugh Jackman does what he does best : Be that character which no one could dream to do better than him - the Wolverine. Perhaps better than he has ever done it before.
Words fell short of praise for the little girl (Laura) who is the proverbial legacy/daughter of Wolverine and has gone through the same fate (or worse) Logan went through once for the Weapon-X program. Dafne Keen, the actress is so beautiful and so vicious in her portrayal that it melts hearts and conjures fear in our hearts both at the same time. Case in point : The scene which shows her walking forward with a severed head of a soldier which she had ripped out of his body while being attacked, as if it is some kind of a prize, and rolling the head out in front of the villain. She is the evolution of madness as well as purity in a Wolverine-like character, both at the same time.
Not to forget, the gore and violence which was one of the many reasons why Fox planned to shift to the R-rating, and man it did not disappoint! Wolverine is one character we innately recognize to have the ability to exact extreme physical damage - his adamantium claws and beastly instincts are enough persuasion to the point. But, since the X-Men franchise started in 2000, all we got to witness of Wolverine were the physical blows, and not what happened to the opponent because of that. The maximum those movies had to offer was extreme damage to objects which Wolverine complied with efficiently. Now, we could not complain as all those movies were supposed to look and feel that way for the general target audience which subscribes to the comic-book movie genre. But what Deadpool did with an R- rating changed history. More and more people subscribed to that specific genre, so much so that it became the highest grossing R- rated movie till date. And what Logan did with it takes it one notch above. The violence presented in the movie reaffirms our perspective of Wolverine's abilities with great shocking visuals and underlying humour. Both Logan's and Laura's abilities to be precise.
Sir Patrick Stewart does an ineffable job with his portrayal of Dr Charles Xavier who is a nonagenarian with a cancerous tumour in his brain, which, to quote the movie line, is a weapon of mass- destruction in itself. The potential disaster his brain could unleash has been depicted in a manner which creates dread in the audience, forget what happens to the people around him. He has outlived his peers, and he is on the verge of departure, but he has to do this one last thing for the people he cares and lived his life for : the next generation of mutants, and especially Laura. The camaraderie of Charles and Logan has been depicted so warmly and humorously, that one could not get enough of it.
The father-daughter dynamic of Logan and Laura has been under-played so beautifully that it does not seem imposed on the audience. It is only until the last act that we witness Logan rising up as what the movie portrays him to be. The passing on of the mantle from the father to his daughter, as portrayed in the movie poster, is much more realistic than it looks, and encompasses various layers of emotions unprecedented in this genre.
What takes the cake for me was the ending : That depiction of the cross being tilted by Laura into an X just gave me goosebumps, and the whole journey of the X-men flashed in front of my eyes (I would not explain more).
Lastly, I have found people who are not happy with the villains in the movie and are of the opinion that the villains were bland and weak. Well, I agree with them on the opinion, but I also feel that the movie was never about the villains in it. Good villain, bad villain - I never thought it mattered much in this movie.
For me, Logan did everything I expected of it from the trailer, and much more. I could not be more obsessed about an X-men movie as is evident from this long-ass review I have wrote which I rarely do. I simply adore this movie.
The easiest 5/5 I have ever rated. Salutes to James Mangold and respect.