Marvel May - Logan (2017)

        Hey guys, Chuck here, and wherever you are, I hope you're enjoying this Sunday, which for me in the US is Mother's Day. And if you're not really one for Mother's Day, well, check out today's Marvel May review of the 2017 film Logan. Directed by James Mangold, this movie marked what was meant to be the last outings for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier. However, with Patrick Stewart's appearance in Multiverse of Madness, as well as Hugh Jackman's upcoming appearance in Deadpool 3, I think we can assume that this was the last time 20th Century Fox would have these actors in these roles. Joining the two of them are the likes of Dafne Keen, Richard E. Grant, Stephen Merchant, and Boyd Holbrook. 

        Based on Mark Millar's "Old Man Logan" story arc, this movie follows Logan, who is starting to age and slowly die due to the Adamantium finally taking its toll on his body. Yes, the metal that made Logan indestructible is starting to kill him. Also, Professor Xavier is aging as well, and he is suffering from a form of dementia that is causing instability in his telepathy, and is believed to have killed  a number of the X-Men, and seriously injured at least 600 other people. Yeah, Charles suffered a major telepathic seizure, and a lot of people either died or got seriously hurt. 

       Meanwhile, a woman named Gabriela Lopez has escaped from the Alkali-Transigen corporation with a young girl named Laura, and begs Logan to take them to a place called Eden. Logan agrees to this, and they head off. Unfortunately, Gabriela is killed by Donald Pierce, who is a cyborg hitman for Transigen, and he has come to reclaim Laura, who is revealed to have similar powers, including Adamantium claws, as Logan. Luckily, Logan and Laura escape, and head off with Charles and Caliban, another mutant helping Logan look after Charles, to find Eden, although Caliban is captured. Pierce, along with his men called Reavers, is tasked with tracking down Logan and reclaiming Laura. 

       During the journey, Charles learns that Laura was made from Logan's DNA, and was one of many mutant children being created from mutant DNA. So, in a way, Laura is Logan's daughter. And yes, she was designated by Transigen as X-23. Logan also learn that so-called Eden is from a comic book. An X-Men comic, to be specific. Charles has another seizure, incapacitating everyone but Laura and Logan, who take out the bad guys. The head of Transigen, Dr. Zander Rice, joins Pierce and the Reavers in hunting down Logan and Laura, all while equipped with their ultimate weapon: X-24.

      X-24 is revealed to be a mindless clone of Logan himself. A perfect weapon. Ultimately, Logan, Laura, and Charles end up at the farm of a man named Will, who dies trying to help them escape. Caliban also dies, setting off several grenades, and Charles dies, leading Logan and Laura to bury him. After Logan gets patched up at the hospital, Laura begs him to prove Eden isn't real. So, the two head to the US/Canada border, where Rictor and other Transigen children are waiting. The Reavers show up to reclaim the children, and Logan tears through them all. Dr. Rice arrives, and tells Logan how he killed Rice's father years ago at the Weapon X facility, and how a genetically engineered crop created and distributed by Transigen was the cause of no new mutants being born. Logan kills Rice with a bullet to the head, the children use their powers to kill Pierce, and Logan has one last fight against X-24, with Laura killing him with an Adamantium bullet to the head.

        Logan, with his dying words, tells Laura not to be the weapon they made her to be, and she acknowledges him as her father. A burial is held, and the Transigen children head across the border into Canada, but not before Laura turns a makeshift cross on its side to look like an X, marking Logan as the last of the X-Men. 

         Okay, so Logan is an absolute emotional rollercoaster. Seriously, if you guys watch this movie, you're gonna get all of the feels. Like, seriously, all of the feels. Performance wise, Hugh Jackman was excellent, once again, as Logan, and I thoroughly enjoyed the chemistry he had with Dafne Keen as Laura/X-23. Both Patrick Stewart and Stephen Merchant were fantastic as Professor Xavier and Caliban, and both Richard E. Grant and Boyd Holbrook were great as the villains Dr. Rice and Pierce, respectively. 

         The visual storytelling in this movie is, quite possibly, the best in the X-Men franchise, and director James Mangold did an excellent job finishing out this excellent film series. So, I'm giving Logan a rating of 5/5. 

       Well, that was, quite honestly, the last truly good X-Men movie because, after the following year's Deadpool 2, it was all downhill from there. But, we'll talk about that tomorrow when we discuss the 2019 X-Men film: Dark Phoenix.

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