Logan

I had great expectations for this film. I had heard that it was the best of the Wolverine movies and while I hadn't managed to see any of those I have at least seen all of the main X-men movies and liked them if not loved them.

I could see why this film was said to be different from the rest. It really stood up from the rest of the X-men franchise and I sat in the cinema hall wondering if that was a good or a bad thing. By the end of the screening I decided that it wasn't or at least that I didn't like it.

While I applaud Marvel's effort to do something different, something that doesn't come off as a regular super hero film, in this case they didn't pull it off. They tried so hard to make a realistic drama that was still a superhero film that in my opinion they managed neither very well.

From this point on there are major spoilers ahead! Read at your own risk!



I liked the first half of the movie just fine. There was a lot of gore, but it still seemed the film was on to something. There were good domestic scenes, interesting storyline. Then everything turned into a pretty awful bloodbath.

Dear film industry, please get over the notion that the more death and sadness you put into a film the more artistic it gets. It's not just an issue this film has, but this film certainly has it. I personally thought the ending was crap. Was the death of Logan and Charles unexpected of a superhero movie? Yes. Did it make it a good film? No. In fact it ruined it. You killed all of the likeable characters. At the end of the film you have a bunch of kids whose only redeeming quality is that they are children. Most of them we haven't met until 30 minutes ago and as characters, they are undeveloped and I'd quite possible not care at all if most of them dropped dead.
It wasn't a terrible movie, but the more I thought about it the less I liked it.