Review: ‘Logan’ Finally Gives Us The Wolverine Movie We Deserve

One of (the many) problems that I’ve always had with the Wolverine movies and with the X-Men films where Wolverine was concerned, is that the action sequences were so focused on showing Wolverine heal himself, that it became a ridiculous crutch for the filmmakers use. What I learned, according to the movies, is that Wolverine was either such a terrible fighter or so off the charts reckless, that he would get bested and killed about half a dozen times per fight if it weren’t for his healing ability. Even in The Wolverine where part of the plot is that his healing ability is temporarily disabled, we’re still all shown that your boy is back to normal by him taking a katana blade straight through the chest, just to walk it off. For a character we were introduced to by him saying it hurts “every time” his claws come out, he sure does willingly take a lot of death blows, just to counter attack. By virtue of the plot, Logan, based on the premise of Old Man Logan, is dying. Slowly. Logan’s vulnerability and decaying existence is omnipresent throughout the film and brings a much more human and endearment to the Wolverine character that Hugh Jackman hasn’t really had the opportunity to showcase previously. In the same vein, is Patrick Stewart in what was touted previous to the movie’s release in his last role as Charles Xavier. This is a different Xavier than we’ve seen him portray before. Xavier is suffering from dementia, which you can imagine is quite a big issue for a mutant of his…