by Ice Cream Jonsey » Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:03 pm
OK, before I forget, then:
It appears that Logan is meant to be the "last' movie with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and Patrick Stewart's Professor X. Something got rid of most of the mutants and I think it's because Professor X's mind was starting to go. Logan is dying, Professor X is dying and there is this prevailing feeling of hopelessness throughout the entire thing. This is not the invincible Wolverine we are accustomed to.
We find out that there's a group of mutant kids and Logan avoids the call to adventure for as long as he can. He tries to get the kids into Canada. The description of this sounds terrible - my fault. Each scene in the movie works on an individual basis. There are so many interesting bits and I gotta admit that there are so many cool bits, too - when Professor X has everyone frozen with his brain and Wolverine has to use his claws to fight past it and help him.
I don't know what I want to say about it. It's interesting that there have been so many comic book movies now that we are seeing this one -- a "smaller" film in so much as it wasn't like all the other ones where the bad guy is inches from destroying the world and there's a fight with a slow motion part where he gets stopped. If you took the claws out of it, this could very well be a non-comic movie. And it's great to see the genre change into something. Maybe not something meaningful, but something different. The performances are all excellent. I think killing off comic book characters is stupid - each comic character's entry on the Wikipedia has a "Death" and "Resurrection" section - but this is as good as it can get, I think.
This is a four-star movie in a completely different way that Deadpool was for me.
OK, before I forget, then:
It appears that Logan is meant to be the "last' movie with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and Patrick Stewart's Professor X. Something got rid of most of the mutants and I think it's because Professor X's mind was starting to go. Logan is dying, Professor X is dying and there is this prevailing feeling of hopelessness throughout the entire thing. This is not the invincible Wolverine we are accustomed to.
We find out that there's a group of mutant kids and Logan avoids the call to adventure for as long as he can. He tries to get the kids into Canada. The description of this sounds terrible - my fault. Each scene in the movie works on an individual basis. There are so many interesting bits and I gotta admit that there are so many cool bits, too - when Professor X has everyone frozen with his brain and Wolverine has to use his claws to fight past it and help him.
I don't know what I want to say about it. It's interesting that there have been so many comic book movies now that we are seeing this one -- a "smaller" film in so much as it wasn't like all the other ones where the bad guy is inches from destroying the world and there's a fight with a slow motion part where he gets stopped. If you took the claws out of it, this could very well be a non-comic movie. And it's great to see the genre change into something. Maybe not something meaningful, but something different. The performances are all excellent. I think killing off comic book characters is stupid - each comic character's entry on the Wikipedia has a "Death" and "Resurrection" section - but this is as good as it can get, I think.
This is a four-star movie in a completely different way that Deadpool was for me.