Fantastic

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2017)

The final movie to feature Hugh Jackman as Logan. After 17 years, Jackman finally sheathes his claws for the final time.
And what a movie it was.
This movie was just great. Logan is old and tired and sick, poisoned by the very Adamantium that laces his skeleton. His healing factor isn't what it used to be, so his own bones are essentially killing him. We find that Mutants are near extinct and the X-men are dead, later revealed to have been killed unintentionally by Charls Xavier and one of his seizures. Logan is just biding his time, waiting for Charles to die and then debating about whether to put an adamantium bullet in his brain and ending it all. When he ends up being tasked with getting a little girl to a place that is a safe-haven for Mutants called "Eden." She ends up being revealed to be a result of scientists using Mutant DNA to create their own mutants to use as soldiers, the girl in question, named Laura is revealed to have been created from Logan's genes. Thus effectively making her his daughter.
The emotion in this movie is heavy, as we see Logan dealing with his own mortality and the kind of man he is.
We see Charles Xavier die, murdered by a clone of Logan named X-24, a soulless killing machine that is everything Logan is, minus the heart.
Logan ultimately faces down his clone, protecting Laura and the other kids she was raised alongside in the lab as they try to make their way to the Canadian border, and Logan is mortally wounded, giving Laura enough time to load the adamantium bullet into a gun and taking off part of X-24's head.
Laura's scene with Logan as he lay dying made me choke up. I'm man enough to admit it. When he was telling her goodbye, she called him "Daddy". Made me get misty eyed, then Logan passed. Laura's friend helped her bury Logan, and as they walked off, leaving Laura behind, she turned the cross on it's side, making it into an X. Almost as if putting the stamp on the end of the era that Hugh Jackman helped start when the first X-men movie made comic book movies a success.
This movie was great, and it's easily the best thing with the Marvel logo attached to it that I've seen since Spider-man 2. It's everything I could have asked for. It was serious, and it gave Logan a proper send off.
Everyone is talking about who should play Logan next, and frankly, after this movie I believe they should wait a decade or two before even considering it. Because this movie, and Jackman's performance are going to be very hard to top. So don't taint it by trying too soon.
Well worth the price of admission.