This is what it feels like.....

Rating: 9/10 (2 March 2017)

In a hideout near the U.S./Mexico border, an ageing Logan cares for the ailing Professor X who is suffering from a form of dementia.
But their sheltered existence comes to a end when a young mutant girl arrives and needs their help to stay safe.....
Last year's Deadpool showed audiences and the studios just how successful an adult orientated comic book hero film can be.
Logan show's how well an adult orientated comic book film is.
The last two standalone Wolverine films were very lacklustre to say the least, they had no coherence, felt rushed, and just didn't have the consistency to tell the story of one of the most interesting comic book heroes of all time.
But this film, goes above and beyond the call of duty to tell the final chapter in the titular characters story, and it's been worth the wait since we were introduced to Wolverine back in august 2000.
As you all know, it's not your atypical comic book film. It's not effervescent, it's not full of wonderful humour and groundbreaking effects, it doesn't feature talking ducks or gods, this is a western, a western with mutants.
If you look outside of the box, this is a film about oppression, an oppression that's been exploited by the masses via comic books and legend, and it's quite meta that the film let's the full universe into the film subliminally via what's in the films backpack.
For what's going on in the world, this is a very topical film, the three are outcasts, no one warms to them, almost everyone are antagonised by them aside from....the African American family who take them in for the night to offer them a meal.
The film also focuses on redemption, and how the narrative will not let certain characters redeem themselves. In one scene in-particular, a character confesses something to someone, but it falls on dead ears, because it's not the person they thought it was.
Jackman is brilliant, and in his ninth performance as Logan, he's putting his all in this. This is his definitive performance as Logan, both physically and verbally. Gone is the wise-cracking hero who had a rapport with his colleagues, this Logan has demons, he's lonely, and dependent on alcohol. His body is strewn with scars, and it feels as if he's just waiting to die.
Stewart, as well, is wonderful. Again totally different to how you've seen Xavier before, more short tempered, but he has an unconditional love for Logan that cannot be broken. The dinner scene is probably on of the most touching scenes I've seen in this genre, proving that these two are platonic soul mates, and would do anything for one another.
There are a few surprises in the film, all changing the course of the narrative, and then there's the case with the violence.
It's pretty shocking, there are quite a few wince inducing moments, but the profanity is thrown around everywhere, and it feels like they are trying to get as many f-bombs in this film as they can.
Many are comparing this to 'Shane' the comparisons are rife, right up to them watching the film, and referencing lines, but the relationship between Logan and the girl slightly reminded me of the relationship between Costner and the boy in Eastwood's 'A Perfect World'.
The villains in the film are your atypical soldier types with tattoo's and swagger, and the backstory about the girl is again, focusing on oppression and borderline slavery.
But it's a monumental film, one of the best comic book films released thus far, and I think that the MCU may have to rethink their safe strategy with their films, as this is Marvel's The Dark Knight.
outstanding....