Child Abuse

Rating: 1/10 (23 April 2017)

Spoiler alert. I don't hold back. Stop reading now if you don't want me to ruin everything. I hated this movie, I'm doing you a favor if you decide not to see it.
This is a horribly dark and graphically violent movie with children. It has no taste or balance. The has few coherent parts outside of the fight scenes, and they are way over the top bloody, and the children cannot act.
If you want your super hero movies to have more gore that a horror slasher film then this movie is for you. But if you think scene after scene of a small girl and Logan decapitating and dismembering people sounds like a bad way to spend 90 minutes then skip this movie, even if you are a huge fan of the movie version of the wolverine character.
The hopelessness of this movie and darkness is also pointless. Everyone dies except the kids. (The kids just get shot and hit and then show their poor acting skills. But I don't blame the kids. I am sure the director is responsible for everything on the screen.) But back to the hopelessness - the good family they meet - all dead. Because Logan starts playing the role of thinking like someone in a horror film. Example: We have had an army chasing us the entire film, but instead of staying on the move, let's bed down with this nice defenseless family. Just stupid and predictable that later they are all violently dead. There are tons more decisions like this in the film. Ones that are stupid for the point of letting something graphically violent happen later. Just stupid horror movie plot gimmicks.
And oh my gosh... talk about a movie dragging out telling you something you already know. You get that the girl is somehow his daughter from the time her claws come out. But then they take the next 15 minutes of the movie acting like you don't get it. Let's have an iPhone movie about it.... in two parts after letting the battery run out... but with the second part saying nothing new. Let's have conversations about it. All that give you little or no more information than you already have. Let's have Logan go from being confused and angry to being, let's see, how about just confused and angry still. It seemed like they were covering the same weak plot points over and over in case the audience had fallen asleep because no one had been stabbed through the skull in the last 10 minutes.
I laughed out loud at the scene where the mute girl started talking. It is like the writers said, "Oh crap, we have killed everyone else, what is Logan going to do for dialogue? OK, let's have her talk, but wait. She was raised in Mexico. So she needs to talk Spanish. But wait, our actress doesn't speak Spanish. We will just have her move her mouth real fast and throw Spanish words in during post. No one will know. And then later we will have her speak bilingual, but not too much." So they take the point in the movie where a speaking girl would normally go mute (after watching several people she liked get violently killed), and they make that the point in the movie where this girl gets to start talking. It is like no one making the movie had ever met a kid. And they do throw Spanish words into a rapidly moving mouth like no one will notice. Again, it was laughably bad.
This movie is a complete mess. Those praising it had to have seen a different movie. Or they are just horror movie fans and finally got to see their Wolverine in one. And I know I know, the comics are dark. But it is a different thing to take a small child actor and put her in this kind of movie. It is child abuse. A small girl like that does not need to see or experience this type of violence. And everyone of those kids will be watching this movie. And it encourages small children to watch this movie when small kids are in it, and it involves characters from other movies they have seen.
Horrible violence in something like Hacksaw Ridge is appropriate. That movie meant something. Violence in 13 Hours means something. Horrible violence in a poorly written comic book movie filled with children is just abuse... to us and the children.