Touching and moving

Rating: 10/10 (7 March 2017)

Trying to find a great film in the midst of all the cliché films of modern times is hard to do sometimes, even among my favorite genres, and sadly yes, even within my favorite franchises.
The Marvel Films are generally pretty good, and that is a lot of material. There's the Cinematic Universe with Avengers, then of course you got the Fantastic Four movies and Punisher films...did I leave anything out? Oh yeah...the X-Men movies have always stood out to me out of all the other Marvel films, because they had a tendency to be more sci-fi than superhero fiction. Not that I don't like superhero fiction, but X-Men has always been more sophisticated to me, and seeing this movie, and realizing it was going to be the last true X-Men film was kind of sad.
There'll be others, but not with Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart. Technically this isn't an X-Men movie...not in the strictest sense. It marks an end to the Wolverine trilogy, and it is easily the best of the three.
The franchise will never be the same. Even when more films are made, Wolverine won't be in it. I wasn't a fan of last years film so much either. I wasn't impressed with Apocalypse and it just really wasn't all that great of a movie. They did some cool stuff I suppose, but I feel like a lot of what X-Men films used to be about have been replaced with visuals and spectacular action sequences. Oh yeah, and Jennifer Lawrence of course. I really don't see where the film franchise is gonna go, especially since Logan can't even cameo anymore.
But enough about the seemingly negative future that hasn't happened yet. Even if this is the end of the X-Men franchise as we know it, it went out in a blaze of glory. No post-credit scene, it was really an end, and a fitting one at that. I couldn't ask for a better story, although I have to admit I may have been a little disappointed we still didn't get to see Omega Red. In any case, I was happy with the family aspect of the movie, and I thought that there were a number of important scenes in the film...the family with the horses, the X-Men comics, and of course the convenience store scene. X-23 in her cute little sunglasses and munching on Pringles. That was hilarious. I can't explain it, but it was just very much a work of art.
I don't know what the future has in store for this franchise, but here in the present, things are looking good. It was a great film. It was beautiful, bold and a little funny at times. Check it out.