TonyWatchesMovies Movie Review: Logan: 8 out of 10
What happens when you take a previously 2 dimensional character who is immortal and hasn't really changed that much throughout his story and give him a humanizing fear, like old age? Well, you get the first good Wolverine movie in a long time, that's what you get.
TonyWatchesMovies Score; 8 out of 10
I'd say that Wolverine lost his edge after X-Men Origins, not just because of the awful portrayal of Deadpool and the weird mutants like gun dude or Gambit, but because they set up the movie as an honest look into Wolverines past when they showed his origins (name drop). Then, they made him the same old Wolverine, making absolutely no headway as a character. Logan takes the previous character that had basically no depth and gave him things that make him very human, and that makes for a great superhero movie.
Logan takes place in the future, where the adamantium in Wolverine's body is poisoning him, to the point where he is aging again and when he takes damage, it lingers. Along with him is Professor Xavier and Caliban, who are hiding out in Mexico to avoid the authorities. Logan runs a car service, and one day he gets a job from a lady to take a young girl to a supposed safe haven for mutants, and after an attack from a shadow organization, Logan, Xavier and X2 travel north to deliver X2 to the mutants. The incredible thing about this movie is how they address Xavier. He has become very old and has Alzheimer's disease, making him incredibly dangerous. There are times when he has seizures and accidentally uses his powers to cause large-scale paralysis in whoever happens to be nearby, the only person who can save him being Logan who can resist the powers a bit more than everyone else. This is another example of great writing, because they took one of the most powerful characters in the mutant universe and took away his control, kind of like when they took Wolverine's mind and he became a mindless animal who kills indiscriminately.
I have some questions now, so SPOILER TERRITORY.
Wolverine's powers heal him on a molecular level, according to all the X-Men lore. So why the hell is he getting adamantium poisoning? Much like Deadpool's healing which cures his cancer constantly, it should be curing his adamantium poisoning along with everything else that needs healing. So now lets assume that he did in fact get poisoned, when he takes the liquid that gives him enhanced powers, shouldn't his healing factor cure it, and help him gain his immortality back? It only lasts for a little while, sure, but in that time of enhanced powers it should've cured him and set him back to square one within a couple minutes. I'm not sure, but I feel like that's what would've happened. Although, now that I'm thinking about it, it's refreshing that they didn't shoehorn another Wolverine movie out of it, that he did still end up dying (hey I fucking said spoiler).
On the whole, awesome movie, and I believe a suitable send off for one of the greatest titans of the superhero movie franchise.
