Logan (2016)
Director: James Mangold. 137mins. Rated: 15
Rating: 2/5 Fair passes the time
Synopsis
Mexico, 2029: On the border with the US the mutant Logan, aka Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is in hiding with mutant leader Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), after an earlier incident in which the telepathic Xavier killed several of his 'X-Men'.
When Logan is approached by a nurse who offers him a huge sum of money to take a special little girl called Laura (Dafne Keen) to a mythical mutant idyll in the US, he readily accepts. But an outside force led by the scientist Zander Rice (Richard E. Grant), who is responsible for creating Laura as a mutant soldier, is tracking them.
Review, by Jason Day
Now amazingly into its 10th film, the X-Men franchise staggers bleary eyed and wanting into the desolate wastes of border-town Mexico. Given the 2029 date, the focus on enhanced security checks and the desperation of Mexican characters to escape to the states, we must presume that President Trump's fabled 'wall to end 'em all' has now been erected and is in full operation.
Logan may well be the first of a deluge of 'Trumpian' cinema in the months and years to come and the wall isn't the only sage idea in this revisionist entry in the X-Men series. Wolverine ekes out a living as a limo driver to women on hen nights, Professor X has dementia and when his meds runs out accidentally kills swathes of people, a group of children genetically bred to be soldiers are the saviours of the known world.
Logan is very well acted by a juicy cast who are up for a robust last stand with their most famous filmic characters but the reliance on stabbing, skewering and staking people throughout an overlong movie becomes too much. This
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Cast
Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Richard E. Grant, Eriq La Salle, Elise Neal.
