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\nA comic book movie like no other: like someone took a glossy sports car, ripped the chrome and colours from it and riddled the engine block with bullet holes. It was great.<\/p>\n
\nA comic book movie like no other: like someone took a glossy sports car, ripped the chrome and colours from it and riddled the engine block with bullet holes. It was great.<\/p>\n
In the year 2029, Logan aka Wolverine of the X-Men, finds himself living a reclusive life as a chauffeur, ageing rapidly, guilt ridden and one of the last mutants left in the world. He takes care of Professor Xavier who is bedridden and suffering a form of\u00a0dementia, but when a young girl appears in their lives with mutant powers, it becomes a cat-and-mouse chase as the two try and protect her.<\/p>\n
Logan<\/em> is based loosely off of the Old Man Logan<\/em> comic, and during its development Deadpool<\/em>\u00a0became an overnight success with an R-rating and 15 certification. Logan<\/em> quickly followed suit, becoming the R-rated blood-soaked swear-fest it is today. But more than that, the film has a quality hitherto\u00a0unknown<\/em> to the superhero genre. But what isn’t expected, is Logan’s<\/em> bitter, quiet and sad tone and theme. A shroud of regret and emptiness cloaks this entire story, even at its happiest of moments. We see our favourite X-Man played by Hugh Jackman drinking (not so surprising) his sorrows away, shouting at a raving and distressed Xavier (Sir Patrick Stewart) and even hinting at suicide! He doesn’t seem to have any affection of Xavier – but is honour bound to protect him – their scenes tug at our heartstrings as they bicker and argue with references dating all the way back to Bryan Singer’s X-Men<\/em>\u00a0movie in 2000. The chemistry between the two actors is real, forged over nearly two decades now, and makes the film’s third act so very hard to swallow…<\/p>\n It is incredibly commendable and very important for big blockbuster films like Logan<\/em> to be made. With Marvel Studios beating us over the head with endless sequels and running narratives, here’s a Marvel film (funded by 20th Century Fox) that bucks the trend: a film about mortality, about endings, a superhero film about weakness and frailty and reality, and what’s more, it is well made.<\/p>\n The only issues I can take with the film are nitpicks and really, in the grand spectrum of superhero movies there is no one film without those.<\/p>\n Logan is effective because it is simple. We have a superhero road-trip movie with a grumpy father, a spontaneous, angry daughter and a decrepit but well-meaning crazy granddad! It isn’t without its humour; the film knows exactly when to give the audience levity, saving us from a truly dour experience! If you are tired of the superhero genre then this is still for you, even more than the vulgar comedic stylings of\u00a0Deadpool<\/em>. Logan<\/em> is the most grounded and realised superhero film\u00a0ever;\u00a0focused on the dramatic performances (and bloody carnage) over everything else.<\/p>\n Additional marshmallows: There’s something great about hearing these two once 12A friendly characters swear like grumpy old men.<\/p>\n [youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G0HRx_0fimc&w=560&h=315]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A comic book movie like no other: like someone took a glossy sports car, ripped the chrome and colours from it and riddled the engine block with bullet holes. It was great. In the year 2029, Logan aka Wolverine of the X-Men, finds himself living a reclusive life as a chauffeur, ageing rapidly, guilt ridden… <\/p>\n
\nGone is the glossy antics of comic book heroes and villains, no more cinematic battles around sky-beams, no exploding cities, very<\/em> little CGI, no restoring of the status quo. This is a superhero one-off movie that takes more from dramatic cinema than it does its fantastic origins. It isn’t one for the kiddies either, this is a mature and violent affair and the film relishes in its new tone. The first word Logan utters is an f-bomb. In fact he swears in almost every second line!
\nThe action sequences in the movie, as the one element all audiences would expect to see, are more like John Wick<\/em> than X-Men<\/em>. A lot<\/em> of dispensable thugs are brutally<\/em> murdered. But when your lead character is an extremely pissed off old man with metal claws in his hands, seeing enemies losing limbs, heads and being stabbed through the face in a shower of gore<\/em> should be expected. Yeah. Not for the fainthearted, this one.<\/p>\n
\nI should mention the young girl, named Laura (played by debut star Dafne Keen) and wow, is she a ball of silent rage and anger! She barely talks, but the back-and-forths generated between Logan and Xavier about her are priceless. An incredible physical performance.<\/p>\n![\"eb59d-5-0\"](\"https:\/\/cinemacocoa.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/eb59d-5-0.png?resize=260%2C50\")
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