Not the Best Movie Ever Made, But Perhaps the Most Powerful One

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2017)

Putting two Master-class actors with Jackman and Stewart together on the big screen for one last time produced a dramatic, heart-wrenching, endearing, and timeless heavyweight. This is not a movie for younger viewers whatsoever.. It grapples with the heavy moral minefields of child exploitation, suicide, terminal illness, messy family dynamics, and undeserved suffering befalling very good people.
These are not Marvel's usual backstories to their vaunted X-Men series, yet Mangold creates a very raw yet real fabric to the film from the first scene to the last. Don't expect the early 2000's X-Men in leather suits with perfect hair - and yet what a welcome detour we are taken down a road untraveled. I can't emphasize enough how much better, deeper, more engrossing, entertaining, and thought provoking Logan is to Singer's dumpster fire with Apocalypse (2016).
Parents beware, your emotions regarding your own children will be seared by Jackman's gritty and cut-to-the-bone performance - I have never seen him better in the previous 6 X-Men installments. The relatively unknown Dafne Keen handles her multi-faceted role with absolute precision - what an impressive surprise from such a young lady that further magnifies the tour de force by Jackman and Stewart.
And if you're keen for some good ol' slashing and gashing by Logan's ill-tempered claws, then you're in for ridiculously well-crafted battle scenes that haven't been witnessed before in the 17-year series history. It will take a lot of time to unpack and digest the 2+ hours of Logan, but it is well worth your mind's and heart's investment. We may very well never see a superhero movie like this again in our lifetime.