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Logan - Barney's Incorrect Five Second Reviews
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Someone has come along. The tired descriptive of superhero or comic-book movie 'for adults' has been made on many less deserving motion pictures, but it never has rang more true than here.
The pacing, the language, the limited but explosive action sequences, the depth... all of it designed for a more appreciative palette. Even though we've seen Hugh Jackman's Wolverine more than enough times to describe him blindly to a sketch artist, I mean it when i say that Hugh Jackman is almost unrecognizable in this performance because it's so different and so tired. I'm not exactly sure how long Logan has been alive but you will FEEL his age and life experiences in this one. It's remarkable.
Patrick Stewart is one of my childhood favourite actors and he brings great layers to Xavier's suffering and dilemmas. I also don't think enough is being said about Dafne Keen's performance who somehow pairs ferociousness and vulnerability in almost every scene she's in.
It's great to see a film that fully explores the dangers that mutants bring unwillingly along with them wherever they go. Choosing to spend time with them is practically a death sentence and the characters here will make you feel that burden that they walk or wheel around with constantly. I can just hear Uncle Ben now...
I worry that the quality of this story is so high that future genre films may appear empty or feel very thin.
More of these please.
Heart rating: 4.5 stars
Brain rating: 4 stars
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It's a serious worry I have that the quality of this will really affect enjoyment of others. I don't want to see any yellow spandex anymore. Give me real, make me feel.
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Stan Lee elevated the quality of comics in the early '60s, and Roy Thomas took it up another notch by the end of the '60s. A few good writers in the '70s (Doug Moench, Don McGregor, Steve Englehart) again advanced the quality of writing in comics, and maybe a couple more this century. But none of those guys ever turned in work quite at the level of the top DC and Vertigo guys. Marvel has definitely done some grim, gritty, and even adult (code for swearing and gore) comics over the years, but nothing on the same level of character depth and nuance of Logan.
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What really surprises me is that in all of X-Men/Logan films, the most common strategy employed by soldiers/mercs/swat-dudes to fight wolverine is running towards him in triangular formation. Then, when their point man is dead, they surround Logan so to enable to goriest and quickest execution of the rest of the squad. There was another scene when the girl is ripping apart a squad of these morons, and the last remaining merc grabs her by the hand saying "You're coming with me".
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