James Mangold delivered to us a moving story about a man who’s lost hope and finds what it means to love one last time, and this happens to be a comic-book movie. It runs deep with emotions brought in by veteran Wolverine actor, Hugh Jackman, and veteran Professor Charles Xavier, Patrick Stewart. Both of them gave their best performances, which I think have been the best in any comic-book, and with Mangold directing them led to an emotional roller-coaster ride.
The first thing diving into the body of this review is how real this movie felt. The plot was really simple about Wolverine and Xavier getting a fellow mutant girl named Laura (Dafne Keen) to the U.S. – Canadian border away from Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook) and the Reavers. There are no green-screens, no convoluted plot, no large gathering of characters to fight a bigger foe, no superhero costumes, no flying, no large machines, and no multiple plots. It’s a singular plot with the story following Logan. To make it more real, we have Logan in the near future whose healing ability is failing him. He can die if beat up and stabbed enough, and boy does it get close to that.
Jackman and Stewart are a powerhouse duo on screen together. Their dialogue and chemistry on screen makes for some of the best character development and harmony I’ve seen in a film in a very long time. I truly believed them when they talk about their history and all of the hurt and turmoil they’ve been through. Stewart as Professor Xavier in his frail and old body, and Wolverine in his pain and hidden love for the professor and long-time mentor give them a very humane bonding. It’s a touching story.
This is by far the most compelling, most brutal, most honest, most frightening, most real, best acted, and overall best X-Men movie out there. I left that theater with an emotional drain that I couldn’t escape. It left a deep impression on me on what happens to us when we get old, and what legacy we want to leave when we’ve completed our mission on this planet. It’s a very metaphorical and spiritual approach on life, but very appropriate with what this movie aims at. It makes you think about life.
Patrick Stewart (L) and Hugh Jackman (R) in “Logan”
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