Has a lot of good and a lot of bad. Mostly bad, though

Rating: 3/10 (4 March 2017)

Let me start by saying that I'm keeping myself totally out of the Marvel vs. DC debate. I own every Marvel AND every DC movie ever made (yes, even the old Captain America movies!) and I watch them no matter if they're good or bad. I love superhero movies. And that might be just the thing with this movie - because it doesn't FEEl like a superhero movie. It feels like Mad Max, a huge chase interrupted for a few moments, and then the chase continues, lots of fighting and explosions and gratuitous violence (more than ever before in a Wolverine movie!) but very little character, very little plot and a super-depressing story line that ends up in tragedy. I don't understand the appeal of the new wave of films where heroes have to be portrayed as old and dying people. "Mr Holmes", "Star Wars VII", "Logan" and there's talk of a new Indiana Jones...why not let the heroes remain the heroes they are? They don't get better from being shown as old, bumbling men dying of cancer or Alzheimer's! "Logan" is all the things that some people have wanted from Marvel movies for a while now. Dark, gritty, violent, brutal. But at the same time, it's lost the fun. It's lost the thrill of the superhero. It's lost the heart. I have nothing bad to say about the main . Jackman does a good job playing Logan, and Patrick Stewart finally gets to say "f*ck" as Professor X. The guy playing the villain is so one dimensional, however, that you will lose sight of him when he turns his side. Donald Pierce in the comic was an industrialist and a member of the Hellfire Club. Here, he's a good with a mechanical hand. What a waste. The fight scenes look good. It's nice to see Jackman go full-out berserker rage Wolverine, and X-23 (even though she's a very bad actress) is good at the fighting stuff. All in all, this is quite literally the first time in years, I've walked out of a superhero movie with this conflicted emotions in my head. It's not horrible like Fan4Stic. It's not fun and wild like Doctor Strange. It's not a good story like Civil War. It's just...kind of a dark letdown.
But I'll probably still get the Bluray. It will just end up next to Fan4Stic and Electra and Catwoman amongst the ones I just own because I want a complete collection.