From a life Long X-Men Fan...

Rating: 6/10 (10 August 2017)

This movie is bitter sweet. These Hollywood X-men films always feel like they miss the mark and never quite make the characters from the comic book pages what they're supposed to be and mostly jumble up their story lines.
Logan is no exception to that. First I'm just going to get my small rant out the way as to why I didn't enjoy this film as an X-men fan. Some things in the X-men universe/timeline you just can't tamper with. This movie is based around a comic book that doesn't even occur in the same comic universe as the previous Wolverine & even X-Men movies. It's a stand alone comic book series and while Old Man Logan is a great comic book it doesn't tie in with the regular story of Wolverine that all the other X-Men and Wolverine movies are based around. So the continuity is the major flaw of the film and trying to tie the story in to what happened in the past that got them to where they are and it's never really revealed.
The story is that Professor Xavier had a mental melt down that killed the X-men and injured hundreds of people. This is the problem with these films they act as though they forget their own selves or other characters. Professor Xavier would have never been able to kill all the X-men or wound hundreds of anybody because Jean Grey one of the main X-men and his Protégé' is more powerful than him and in many cases is the only one that can calm Xaviers mind. This happened in the movies and it happens endlessly in the comic book in similar circumstances. It's just really hard mistake to ignore because it's a major plot in the X-men especially in the X-Men Apocalypse Movie.
So back to Wolverine. He's old and he's sick and he also has adamantium claws. Universe continuity...wolverine doesn't age and is practically invincible. He's already hundreds of years old before he makes his first appearance in the first Wolverine Movie. 20-30 years to 2029 when this movie takes place wouldn't even make a strand of his hair turn grey in that time frame.
Wolverine is sick and is losing his healing factor. In the comics there is a disease that kills mutants but Wolverine is one of the mutants that can't get sick because of his healing factor it's one of the reasons he's nearly immortal. It's only explained that his adamantium is making him sick but if that were the case his mutant ability would be healing the sickness so he would never know. Just another plot hole in the movie.
The biggest sinker in this movie for me is that Wolverine still has adamantium claws and generally adamantium at all. Considering this is in the future. Magneto would have long since removed all the adamantium from wolverines body leaving him with only his original bone claws and healing ability. That is the story line of the X-men universe that these movies take place in and the kicker for me was in a scene where Charles Xavier jokingly spoke about Wolverine leaving his school a time or too. I didn't laugh at the joke because it didn't make sense in this film. Wolverine left the X-men shortly after Magneto ripped his adamantium from his body. He became depressed and left the X-men because he felt that he would be a burden to them. It's not just a small story but it's a MAJOR turning point in the X-men comic series and when he becomes Bone claws Wolverine.
These are all major points to Wolverines character and Story line in X-men and for whatever reason they bounce back and fourth taking elements from it that clash with the story line in "Logan" which is why the movie really takes a lot of "forgetting" to enjoy.
The move... If wolverine never pulled out his claws from time to time I honestly would have never knew I was watching an X-men movie. With such a huge universe of characters to choose from that fans of the series would recognize they don't ever pick any. It's the usual save the little girl from the bad guys and take her to a place where she'll be safe movie.
You've seen it a 1,000 times this movie isn't much different but it's not a bad movie it just doesn't feel like it relates much to the X-men or Wolverine at all.
Professor Xavier dies and that's it. The last time he died in the comics it had a catastrophic result. Him just dying seemed uneasy and strange without the mutant world falling apart like it does every other time he died in the comics. I mean you have mutants that literally travel back in time from years beyond 2029 just to save him from death so that's another plot hole in the X-men universe...
The movie just doesn't work because it doesn't fit in with the rest of the movies or even the comic universe those movies are set in. This is a stand alone movie loosely based on the stand alone series "Old Man Logan" with a plot of X-23 thrown in.
Looking at the movie from that perspective the movie was decent. Kind of like the last of us if Ellie and Joel had claws and an old Psychic man in a wheel chair with them to tag along.
It was entertaining. Predictable but entertaining. 30% Comic Book 70% Hollywood storyline.