Language - English
Director - James Mangold
Run Time - 2 hours. 17 mins
Genre - Action/Drama
Starring - Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart
Logan is not the movie Wolverine needed, but the movie Wolverine deserved (hope you guys get the ref). Logan is a high octane adrenaline pumping film that serves as a perfect conclusion to Hugh Jackman's rein over the character for the past 17 years.
The movie is set in a semi post-apocalyptic world - for mutants at least, with only few of them surviving. Amongst those are our dear favourites James Howlett a.k.a Logan and a 90 year old Charles Xavier. They are swept up into saving a child with some very familiar adamantium claws and therein starts the cat and mouse run.
Hugh Jackman finally gets to display the wild animal Wolverine is in this movie and he leaves no-holds-barred. It's violence and gore that exhilarates and drives up the adrenaline. And it's not only Wolverine who does that for us but the surprise package of the movie, Dafne Keen as the wild untamed daughter of Wolverine, Laura.
When the movie is not violent, it is emotional and sentimental and gives you the 'feels' consistently. It might be the best X-men movie yet (and I'm not counting Deadpool). Also, it derives partly from the brilliant 'Old Man Logan' storyline in the comics is another hallmark to one of the greatest, if not the greatest anti-hero ever.
Hugh Jackman does not disappoint, and the franchise seems to be far from over. No one will be able to replace Hugh Jackman easily.
A must watch for action movie fans, a movie that redefines the superhero genre and gives Wolverine a lasting legacy.
My Rating - 8.4/10
No comments:
Post a Comment