Enter: The personal comic book film

Rating: 7/10 (1 June 2017)

Plot; In the future, the man once known as Wolverine is tasked with getting a young mutant girl with powers like his own to safety.
Abandoning the "Go big or go home" style mass destruction of the modern comic book movie, Logan instead strips away many of the genre's accouterments and keeps its scale on the small side. In both tone and aesthetic, it typically plays much more like a Western than "Superhero movie".
Much has been made of its R-rating--a rarity in a genre that aims for mass appeal and merchandising--and for good reason. It's not just a few f-bombs and a little gore tossed in as window dressing. Though it's a little excessiveÂ at times, like a kid who's just turned 21 and overindulgesÂ because the shackles are now off, it's mostly used to good effect.Â Hugh Jackman is Logan/Wolverine, and God help whoever eventually takes over the role (either in a reboot or a retcon or whatever is going on in the increasingly convoluted X-Men saga), and he's never been better than he is here. In fact, I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see his named bandied about come awards season. That also goes for Patrick Stewart, who is every bit Jackman's equal as the painfully frail Dr. Xavier.
Logan goes on for a bit too long, and I wasn't completely satisfied with some of the choices made in its third act, but it's a well made, flawlessly acted and refreshingly personal film that proves there's more to this genre than costumes and leveling cities.