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Wolverine is often compared to Batman, in good ways and bad, being known for being overused to the point where even his fans get sick of him. But just like with Batman, when he's done right, you remember why you liked him in the first place.
In the not too distant future of 2029, Wolverine's age has finally started to catch up to him and his healing factor is no longer protecting him from the adamantium bonded to his skeleton from poisoning him. The rest of the X-Men are nowhere to be seen as Xavier is suffering from a degenerative brain disorder that causes him uncontrolled psychic attacks on everyone around him, which killed most if not all of them a year earlier. He only has Wolverine left to take of him, who keeps him with a mutant outcast named Caliban in an abandoned smelting plant where Xavier only risks hurting them. The number of mutants has also been shrinking as they are no longer born.
All of this has made Wolverine a very bitter and cynical man who is only concerned about getting by and hopefully getting enough money so he and Xavier can go somewhere better. He has even been complimenting suicide.
Wolverine is offered a chance to earn money by a cyborg mercenary named Donald Pierce who works for a company called Transigen, but Wolverine wants nothing to do with him. He gets a different chance for money when a nurse who worked for Transigen offers him a huge some to escort her daughter Laura across the Mexican border. Shortly after hearing her offer, he finds her dead. Taking Laura back to Xavier, the old man states she's a mutant, which Wolverine believes is impossible since mutants haven't been born in years.
Pierce and his enforcers track Laura down to Wolverine and Xavier's hiding place. Wolverine's weakening healing factor leaves him in no condition to fight off dozens of heavily armed men on his own, and only manages to escape with Xavier when Laura kills many of the mercenaries, revealing she has the same powers as Wolverine, right down to the metal claws.
Looking at a video left by the nurse, Wolverine and Xavier see that Transigen had been experimenting by breeding mutant children to use as weapons. The mutant children may have been alive, but to Transigen they were nothing more than tools, tools they decided to discard when they couldn't be controlled and they had a new project. She couldn't stand for it and helped several of them escape, including Laura, Wolverine's clone. From this point, their goal is try and get Laura across the border. The mercenaries however caught Caliban and force him to use his power to track mutants to follow them.
This movie is much darker and more violent than any of the previous X-Men films. Before the movies avoided showing blood when Wolverine's claws hit something, that no longer the case.
As Hugh Jackman's final outing as Wolverine, he gives as good a performance as ever. The titular X-Men has grown into a cynic who would rather just leave well enough alone, but isn't give the choice. Most of his friends are dead, he's spending his life taking care of an almost literal time bomb, and is dying from the metal in his skeleton. He doesn't have much left to live for, but over the course of the film he gradually gets a reason in his desire to help Laura.
Patrick Stewart is back as the older Xavier. He's retired from his career trying to help mutants, his brain disorder means he's a danger to everyone around him. He's more bitter than in earlier films and often bickers with the more cynical Wolverine. Xavier doesn't have the control of his power he used to, but he still desires to help others. He also provides most of the comedy provides some nice bright spots in the dark film.
Laura, who doesn't go by the comic designation of X-23 (every mutant like her is filed as an X-23, she's labeled "X-23 #23" as a nod to it) is much younger than her comic counterpart, putting her closer to her debut in X-Men: Evolution. She doesn't speak for most of the movie. In fact Laura doesn't express a lot of emotion period, except for anger when facing the mercenaries. It fits since she likely has no idea how, she was raised to be a killer and doesn't know about much else. Later in the film she does get more expressive and we get a much better idea what has been going through her head. Before that all learn is that is an berserker when threatened and doesn't want to go back to where she came from.
Villains are where the movie falls a little short for me. Donald Pierce is entertaining and works in his role, but personality wise he's really just the typical heartless hired gun. His boss, the only briefly seen Zander Rice is a different story. He manages to put up the air of being a decent well intended man, until you actually see the things he does. He even seems to have something of a bond with his pet killing machine X-24. Whether or not it's genuine is open to audience interpretation.
X-24 is another clone of Wolverine. Unlike Laura, he is already an adult. This has some really disturbing implications since as far the viewer can see, he was made in the body of an adult with any experience of one. Hence he never speaks, he doesn't know how to, or do anything besides kill the target Rice points him at. As another credit to the film's visuals, even though he's also played by Hugh Jackman it manages to make him look much younger than Wolverine.
Action wise the movie stands out with its reliance on violence. It ranks with Deadpool in terms of gore but has more simple stabs and cuts in contrast to Deadpool's acrobatics. The stunt work with Laura is amazing, even those she's a child you will buy all the scenes where she kills. Fights with X-24 consist largely of him and his opponent mauling each other like big cats. As Wolverine's healing abilities are not as effective as they were in the past, his injuries in this film do have an impact and he does feel like a mortal man who can actually die.
As a finale to the Wolverine character we have been following since the start of the X-Men films, this movie does well as a journey where he has almost given up on life just to find a reason to life. But this is Wolverine's story and it's not going to please everyone with the fates of the rest of the X-Men. I personally didn't care for the mutants being on the verge of extinction simply because that's been the status quo in the comics years, undone, then brought back again. Since Fox isn't ending the franchise here I hope they change it in the future.
But this is Wolverine's movie and on that merit it does what it sets out to and more. Since his healing factor is breaking down, Wolverine does feel like a mortal character who is in danger of dying throughout the movie and not the immortal he's known as for being. We've seen him not interested in the X-Men's fight, go back to help a younger Xavier, and now in this film he is one who needs help, while learning one last time to help others. And with his actions there is some hope that mutants will exist in the future.
In the not too distant future of 2029, Wolverine's age has finally started to catch up to him and his healing factor is no longer protecting him from the adamantium bonded to his skeleton from poisoning him. The rest of the X-Men are nowhere to be seen as Xavier is suffering from a degenerative brain disorder that causes him uncontrolled psychic attacks on everyone around him, which killed most if not all of them a year earlier. He only has Wolverine left to take of him, who keeps him with a mutant outcast named Caliban in an abandoned smelting plant where Xavier only risks hurting them. The number of mutants has also been shrinking as they are no longer born.
All of this has made Wolverine a very bitter and cynical man who is only concerned about getting by and hopefully getting enough money so he and Xavier can go somewhere better. He has even been complimenting suicide.
Wolverine is offered a chance to earn money by a cyborg mercenary named Donald Pierce who works for a company called Transigen, but Wolverine wants nothing to do with him. He gets a different chance for money when a nurse who worked for Transigen offers him a huge some to escort her daughter Laura across the Mexican border. Shortly after hearing her offer, he finds her dead. Taking Laura back to Xavier, the old man states she's a mutant, which Wolverine believes is impossible since mutants haven't been born in years.
Pierce and his enforcers track Laura down to Wolverine and Xavier's hiding place. Wolverine's weakening healing factor leaves him in no condition to fight off dozens of heavily armed men on his own, and only manages to escape with Xavier when Laura kills many of the mercenaries, revealing she has the same powers as Wolverine, right down to the metal claws.
Looking at a video left by the nurse, Wolverine and Xavier see that Transigen had been experimenting by breeding mutant children to use as weapons. The mutant children may have been alive, but to Transigen they were nothing more than tools, tools they decided to discard when they couldn't be controlled and they had a new project. She couldn't stand for it and helped several of them escape, including Laura, Wolverine's clone. From this point, their goal is try and get Laura across the border. The mercenaries however caught Caliban and force him to use his power to track mutants to follow them.
This movie is much darker and more violent than any of the previous X-Men films. Before the movies avoided showing blood when Wolverine's claws hit something, that no longer the case.
As Hugh Jackman's final outing as Wolverine, he gives as good a performance as ever. The titular X-Men has grown into a cynic who would rather just leave well enough alone, but isn't give the choice. Most of his friends are dead, he's spending his life taking care of an almost literal time bomb, and is dying from the metal in his skeleton. He doesn't have much left to live for, but over the course of the film he gradually gets a reason in his desire to help Laura.
Patrick Stewart is back as the older Xavier. He's retired from his career trying to help mutants, his brain disorder means he's a danger to everyone around him. He's more bitter than in earlier films and often bickers with the more cynical Wolverine. Xavier doesn't have the control of his power he used to, but he still desires to help others. He also provides most of the comedy provides some nice bright spots in the dark film.
Laura, who doesn't go by the comic designation of X-23 (every mutant like her is filed as an X-23, she's labeled "X-23 #23" as a nod to it) is much younger than her comic counterpart, putting her closer to her debut in X-Men: Evolution. She doesn't speak for most of the movie. In fact Laura doesn't express a lot of emotion period, except for anger when facing the mercenaries. It fits since she likely has no idea how, she was raised to be a killer and doesn't know about much else. Later in the film she does get more expressive and we get a much better idea what has been going through her head. Before that all learn is that is an berserker when threatened and doesn't want to go back to where she came from.
Villains are where the movie falls a little short for me. Donald Pierce is entertaining and works in his role, but personality wise he's really just the typical heartless hired gun. His boss, the only briefly seen Zander Rice is a different story. He manages to put up the air of being a decent well intended man, until you actually see the things he does. He even seems to have something of a bond with his pet killing machine X-24. Whether or not it's genuine is open to audience interpretation.
X-24 is another clone of Wolverine. Unlike Laura, he is already an adult. This has some really disturbing implications since as far the viewer can see, he was made in the body of an adult with any experience of one. Hence he never speaks, he doesn't know how to, or do anything besides kill the target Rice points him at. As another credit to the film's visuals, even though he's also played by Hugh Jackman it manages to make him look much younger than Wolverine.
Action wise the movie stands out with its reliance on violence. It ranks with Deadpool in terms of gore but has more simple stabs and cuts in contrast to Deadpool's acrobatics. The stunt work with Laura is amazing, even those she's a child you will buy all the scenes where she kills. Fights with X-24 consist largely of him and his opponent mauling each other like big cats. As Wolverine's healing abilities are not as effective as they were in the past, his injuries in this film do have an impact and he does feel like a mortal man who can actually die.
As a finale to the Wolverine character we have been following since the start of the X-Men films, this movie does well as a journey where he has almost given up on life just to find a reason to life. But this is Wolverine's story and it's not going to please everyone with the fates of the rest of the X-Men. I personally didn't care for the mutants being on the verge of extinction simply because that's been the status quo in the comics years, undone, then brought back again. Since Fox isn't ending the franchise here I hope they change it in the future.
But this is Wolverine's movie and on that merit it does what it sets out to and more. Since his healing factor is breaking down, Wolverine does feel like a mortal character who is in danger of dying throughout the movie and not the immortal he's known as for being. We've seen him not interested in the X-Men's fight, go back to help a younger Xavier, and now in this film he is one who needs help, while learning one last time to help others. And with his actions there is some hope that mutants will exist in the future.
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Just saw the departure of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. What does the X-Men as a film franchise hold from here? Don't know but this movie worked well on its own.
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In the future, a review shouldn't be a play-by-play summary of the media you just experienced, even half of one. You have to find ways to condense it and give your reactions a more structured framework. You have to respect that your readership will already be familiar enough with the property that it might not be totally necessary; it helps, of course, that Logan is one of the most popular superhero films in recent memory. You can't get more widely recognized and mainstream than that.