Logan ‘Spoiler-Free’ Review – Visceral, Dirty and Poetically Heartfelt

As Logan is an R-rated film, it means that audience figures are definitely restricted – however, this caveat hasn’t stopped audiences turning out for Hugh Jackman’s final performance in the role.

In addition to speaking with Jackman about Wolverine’s last hurrah, I spoke with Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook, and director James Mangold about their touching, triumphant film.

The climactic sequence is easily the most brutal fight ever depicted in an X-Men movie, as we see a full berserker Wolverine (which, by the way, was so incredibly awesome to watch) tear through soldier after soldier – with a bit of help from the younger mutants along the way. “But thanks to cannabis they work much better than they used to”. And why not? Patrick Stewart has zero qualms poking fun at himself. Also unlike other X-Men and superhero films there is no mid or post credit scene. The only small thing missing, and I may just not have caught it, is him calling someone “Bub” in a condescending tone.

That sense of family comes through in the new Wolverine film Logan, which opened yesterday.

Major studios are usually reluctant to release a big-budget movie (Logan cost a reported $97 million to make) with an R-rating out of fear that it will lose a large chunk of younger moviegoers.

Thank you Hugh Jackman for bringing one of my favourite superheroes to life, it’s been a hell of a journey. “I really liked Viggo for Wolverine, but it didn’t come together for whatever reason”, Hayter told THR.

Logan, which takes place more than 50 years after the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), sees Wolverine/Logan aging, tired and vulnerable. With X-23 going off to hang out with the other mutants at the end of the film, presumably her adventures in any sequel would involve them as well.

There have been threads on Reddit that have discussed how Logan looks and feels the same as The Last of Us, and after watching the movie, fans of the game will be able to spot striking similarities in terms of the atmosphere and aesthetics of the film. Sometime in the 60’s or 70’s, he is captured by the Weapon X program and the metal Adamantium is bonded to his skeleton, to brainwash him and turn him into a killing machine. Wolverine? Sure, but we’ve heard him drop f-bombs before. The movie ranks along as one of the best reviewed superhero movies. A seemingly flawless friendship was formed between Shane and the family until a black hat killer came into the valley, began killing at will and Shane’s past came back to haunt him. Fortunately, with the studio allowing the production of an R-rated Logan, a much more hard-hitting and gritty version of the character was finally unveiled. Grumpy, gruff, and less invulnerable, Logan seems more of a raging misanthropist than ever, and at one point beats the hood of his unresponsive auto á la Basil Fawlty. After 17 years of playing Wolverine, Jackman is bidding the character adieu in Logan.