Sarcastic Movie Review: Logan

“Just when I thought I was out, they keep pulling me back in” and other such overused plot points such as “Just one last job” were the things that came to my mind when I first heard about the Logan movie, and how it would be Hugh Jackman’s last portrayal of the Canadian ball of claws and fury known as wolverine. After the rather unforgettably bad wolverine origins and the very forgettable wolverine movie in which he goes to japan, I was afraid they were going to just beat the dead horse for one last cash grab. Then a trailer came out, Johnny Cash sang ‘Hurt’ and I was aboard the hype train with everyone else.

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Now having seen the movie I got to say I liked it, I can’t stress on that enough I really did like it though you may find that hard to believe after reading this but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. But maybe it was all the hype surrounding it and the early reviews calling it beyond amazing that left me wanting it to be just a bit better.

Straight of the bat, Hugh Jackman’s performance was wonderful; the man has become such an iconic part of the comic book character that it’s going to be hard for anyone to fill his shoes. And they definitely did not let that ‘R’ rating of theirs go to waste (thank you Deadpool). The movie had no shortage of F-bombs and wolverine slicing the bad guy’s body parts off.  Dafne Keen pulls of a very likeable ‘X-23’ the tiny but just as deadly female version of Logan. And it was refreshing to see a departure from Patrick Stewart’s usual performance of a cool and calm Professor Charles Xavier into a senile old man who cursed more than a drunken sailor. Though not the usual refined Professor X, it was a very believable performance and suited the tone of the movie well.

In short the movie is definitely worth a watch, but there were a few things I disliked and to discuss that we need to enter spoiler territory. So this has been your official ‘Spoiler alert’. Go watch the movie and come back if you haven’t is all I’m saying.

Where ‘Logan’ really drops the ball can be summed up in one word: Villains. Most movies have bland villains I get that, and super hero movies are no exception, I get that too. Now I wasn’t expecting the next Joker (The Heath Ledger one not lover boy from suicide squad) or a complex antagonist such as Magneto here but they really scraped the bottom of the barrel for this one. The villains were so comically generic that it was almost insulting having them as the opposition for Logan’s swan song. Bringing up the villains side we have: Evil guy with metal arm, Generic evil doctor and Wolverine’s Evil twin (tan tan Daan). Really guys that’s who you went with, Evil Hugh Jackman.