PERFECT SEND OFF FOR HUGH JACKMAN

Rating: 10/10 (11 December 2019)

**SPOILERS**
Martin Scorcese once said that, the thing that always drew him to rewatching a movie isn't a plot or the story itself. It is usually the characters. And in terms of characters, Logan didn't failed. Not one bit.
This is definitely a movie that will get tons of rewind from here on. They nailed the characters from head to toe (or for Professor X, from head to hip). "Nature made me a freak. Man made me a weapon. And God made it last too long." At first, I was really curious as to why is this Logan so pessimistic and negative. But now I know why.
Recap the X-Men movies timeline if you will. The 1st X-Men is where Logan first meets Jean Grey. Here he starts to fall in love with her. Then in X-2, she sacrificed herself to save the others. Then in the Last Stand, she somehow is alive all along only to be reborn as the Dark Phoenix (meaning she's evil). She killed Professor X and Cyclops, only for Wolverine to killed the love of his life. He must be devastated. Then in X-Men: Days of Future Past, he witnessed almost all of his kind murdered by Sentinels, only for him to change the timeline and erased some of the important events (X3, X2 events). Then halfway through this movie, we learned that almost all mutants are dead because of Professor X. Picture it. Imagine the state of emotions he must have been through. He actually witnessed the deaths of his friends TWICE. No wonder he's skeptical and has a negative input on life itself.
The setting for the movie is quite simple. Save the girl (or his daughter, in this case). But, most good movies proved that you don't need a fancy mumjo jumbo to capture the audience. All the good characters are nailed perfectly. All of them has flaws. Profesor X, old, senile and regrets the Westchester events. Logan, older than Xavier, is borderline pessimist and hates confrontation (very uncharacteristic) but eventually gets to feel something he's been missing. Even Caliban gets to redeem himself in the end. I love how Professor X said about the most perfect sleep he had in years, a sound sleep as a normal human being. That showed the human side of him, even with all that power.
If there is a complain about the movie though, its probably the villain. I feel that Dr. Zander Rice's character motivation isn't developed as well as it should. Sure, he told Logan that his father were killed by mutants, but I felt that you need a bit more than just a mention for his backstory. In fact, I guarantee most will miss that. Even the final boss, another Wolverine is a bit of a cop out to me. They could have used another person with his DNA for instance. Or Zander Rice's own biological child. It might be an even more emotional fight if he wasn't just a Wolverine clone. However, it's not really that upsetting.
Nowadays, people love to jumped on bandwagons. Especially on the Internet. And so, most would claim they hated Fox for their misinterpretation of Xmen and Fantastic 4. But to me, they just produced 2 of the best superhero movies of the year in the form of Deadpool and Logan. While Marvel just rehashed the same formula again and again (Civil War is just a good movie, but severely lacking) Infinity War will definitely be big on scale, no doubt about it. Just doubt it would be big in the mind for themes and storyline. Don't think any Marvel movie is gonna as awesome as this one ever. Logan is a 5/5 for me. The perfect sendoff from Hugh Jackman.