Logan

This Franchise started when Bill Clinton was president. Hell I remember talking about an X man movie with Lee Martin some time after high school began

So here it is the end of an era. The last of the X men movies. Here is Logan needing glasses to read. Coughing and grey,  the man who was born before the USCW is getting older. Looking after a senile Captain Picard. 

Stephen merchant plays Caliban a once mighty mutant reduced to a a skivvy. The Mutants were not the wave of the future . They are like Eric la  Salle big in the 1990s.

Trump is and was President. The fence is mentioned. Oh and a HSA

Logan has headed south of the border he is making a living( when not drinking ) as a chauffer 

Then we meet the girl. Yes this time there is no love interest. Its laura an 11 year old mutant. Like a western it is whores. Seen briefly, other peoples wives, and the school mam. The Mexican nurse in this case. The last of the mutants lives in a mans world. Him, Caliban and Xavier. A sterile world,
After all, who even eats spotted dick in England these days

Full of rage, Laura is haunting a world she does not understand. Laura wants to get to ND, and then to Canada. Where she and her kind will be safe..

There is a nice part when Logan finds out that the co ordinates Laura is heading to, where taken from a comic book

We see driverless trucks, Though in one scene a boy has an mp3 player( Will they exist in 13 years? Ditto cell phone chargers?)

Richard E.Grant is playing villains these days. He played the Great intelligence in Dr Who. He gives them the upper class villan with a South of Africa twist

Oh and a word to the McGuffin its  about time someone simply turned the industrial complex against the mutos. Come on boys what you  gonna eat?

That guy who played Murphy on Narcos plays the physical threat (Boyd Holbrook). Wearing a bomber jacket. Been a while since I have seen one of those,  If that was a deliberate touch by the wardrobe department. Then it is well done

As I observed above the film notes the passage of time. Professor X, here reduced to Chuck, and using Americanisms such as take a moment. Professor X muses about the Western he and Laura watch- Shane. Is it significant that our heroes are in a casino. A place of long odds and broken dreams- when this exchange happens?

If there is a message to Logan it is   The end we all die. We get sicker, Logan)the body goes, cruellest of all the mind. (Charles's ) Better die for something. Even if we get trapped by our choices

 It has  been  long time since High school for us all. The last film of this franchise I saw in the cinema was an equator away

Wolverine X Men origins

Wolverine X men origins
If you like Hugh Jackman, you will like this film.

 I bear Jackman, no ill will. One of the Barmaids at the local, is a farn of his .

 So I saw this, to chat to her about it. I was tempted to spoil the ending for her. She was not there last night. So I can’t
The film starts off in pre confederation Canada. A young lad, is shivering with sickness. 

His older brother regards him coolly. A man his father comes into console him. Its Shane Ramsay, from Neighbours. Last time, I saw him he was in Time Trax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Trax
Anyway Jimmy wolfs out. After being disturbed, by altercation, between his mother, and another man. Which killed his father.
Except, it wasn't his father
There is a nice scene, before the fight. When Shane Ramsey asks the older brother (Victor) to check on his mother. His response is icy. ....Its not my name she is calling''
Anyway, we see the boys fighting. USCW, WW1. WW2. Vietnam. There are some good, scenes
Hugh Jackman does saving Private Ryan
After an incident based on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre
Victor goes mad
The two brothers are arrested, and shot. They revive, and are thrown in prison. There is a nice scene in the prison, where colonel Striker, asks them to join his black op
The pair are joined by a set of other super powered people
including the Lost alum :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Durand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Monaghan
and one of the Black eyed peas!
There is a set piece, of a raid on a diamond smuggling centre in Nigeria. A nice piece of whimsy, where the elevator still plays music.
They are after a meteor fragment. That the African gangster keeps on his desk.
The team travels into the bush. There is another incident, with helpless African villages. Sicken. Logan, leaves them all behind. Abandoning his team and his brother
We then meet up with our hero in the Canadian Rockies. There are some beautiful scenes of the mountains, and forests.
Our hero, is leading a content life- living  a school teacher.
 for a while the film becomes Hugh Jackman does little house on the prairie.
It is at this point. One of the writers remembered Wolverine has certain traits. He is Canadian. He smokes. I actually felt sorry for Jackman here. In playing a comic book character he has two challenges.
He has to flesh the character out Make him 3- Dimensional 
He will never be perfect. Everyone has there own batman. Jackman, might have been able to skirt around it in the X men movies. Here he has to carry it for himself. He has to be Wolverine. Saying bub, and chewing a cigar now and then are not enough. Indeed they feel tacked on
Wolverine loses his lady. After she tells, him a story from Amerindian myth. About the Moon who was separated by her lover, by the trickster
His lady is lost! - By Victors hand.
Lev/Victor does a good job. He worked in horror movies, and at times. Particularly the fight with Gambit, in New Orleans One gets the feeling its:
Hugh Jackman, does interview with the Vampire.
A chase scene earlier. was Hugh Jackman doing the great escape. Oh, and even Frankenstein, where Jackman is taken in by an elderly couple. He even sleeps in a barn.
There is a cute scene. Where Wolverine experiments with his claws for the first time.  The claws however end up looking very fake. The CGI really was not good here. A pity because the wash basin cut in half, was a nice image
I could go on. I don't need to. In the end, all's well that ends well. There are a few surprises. Which I give them credit for.  Cyclops, is eye ray is well realized.
Oh and one spoiler
Okay here it comes
Captain Picard saves everyone in Airwolf
If you like Hugh Jackman, this is the film for you. As a movie, it was better then X-Men 3. Its a tougher role, to play then I think is realized. However Jackman, who is more of a classically trained actor. Is playing a part. Its a pity they didn't play to Jackman's skills and draw upon more of wolverines early life.
But there is a Franchise
I would give it a :
B-/C +