Hugh Jackman was born to portray the iconic protege Wolverine of Professor Charles Xavier's school of mutants on the big screen. Ever since Bryan Singer's X-Men way back in 2000, the famed Aussie has played the character nine times, and never has he been more human than in James Mangold's Logan, an ultra violent action spectacle that marks the first R rated movie of the franchise. His face resembling an appendage that's been eroded by time and suffering, Logan is a "hero" whose time has clearly passed, and he storms through the American Southwest with Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and a young mutant girl, Laura (Dafne Keen) - whose powers very much resemble his own - all the while dispatching various assassins (with the bland Boyd Holbrook at the helm) who serve no other purpose to the narrative than to get brutally slain by Logan and his new sidekick's indestructible knuckle blades. Much like The Dark Knight Rises, Logan is a closing chapter for its iconic protagonist, a ride into the sunset that's appropriately set in Texas for the majority of its narrative (comparisons between Alan Ladd's Shane and Logan are also cleverly hinted at). Logan's graphic violence and adult language actually work in its favor, because a character this legendary deserved to go out while spewing all sorts of profanities and cutting off as many of his enemies' limbs as possible.
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