By Emilio Frenk.
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Elizabeth Rodríguez, Richard E. Grant and Eriq La Salle.
Rating: Excellent.
Hugh Jackman brings again to the big screen the character that led him to fame and stardom in Hollywood for the last time in “Logan” and I was very impressed by it and I really enjoyed it.
The story takes place in the near future where we see an aging and weary Logan (Hugh Jackman) who works as a Limo Driver and takes care of an ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart).
One day Logan receives the visit from Gabriela (Elizabeth Rodríguez) a nurse for the Laboratory Transignen and Laura (Dafne Keen) a girl with a unique and special gift.
Gabriela explains to Logan how the children from the laboratory are mistreated and trained as assassins.
At the end Logan agrees to protect Laura and together with Professor X will go to North Dakota for Laura to seek shelter. The problem begins when the Chief of Security from Transignen Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook) finds about this and he will stop at nothing to retrieve Laura.
Now Logan will have to protect both Laura and Professor X from “Evil Forces” before it´s too late.
“Logan” without a doubt not only it´s a superhero film but at the same time I see it as a drama and it really set up the tone.
James Mangold directs again another installment to “The Wolverine” franchise since he did the one from 2013 which was a fun and entertaining film but this time Mangold´s directing was even superior than it´s predecessor.
Mangold wrote the screenplay with Scott Frank, who wrote the film from 2013 and Michal Green which credits include “The Green Lantern” and TV Shows like “Smallville” and “Heroes”.
The three of them made a unique and remarkable screenplay filled with drama and this time we see Logan´s internal and external conflict more marked than in the previous films.
James Mangold has been known through all his career as a director who likes to get into the head of the characters, revealing their internal conflicts making it one of his brands as a filmmaker. He has done it in movies like “Cop Land”, “Girl, Interrupted” and “Walk the Line”.
Here it´s no different and not only he achieved that successfully but we have even more sympathy and we like more the character of Wolverine.
“Logan” is filled with amazing action sequences and yes the rating it´s totally correct since for being a movie based on a comic book it´s very violent but at the same time it is completely justified.
Hugh Jackman says goodbye to an iconic character indeed and what a remarkable way to do it. Jackman´s career has been taking off and he has proven himself to be one of the most complete actors there are in Hollywood.
Also I consider “Logan” the best film of the X-Men series and not only I enjoyed the film but the performances as well. In movie like this it´s very rare to see good performances but this time they really paid off.
Boyd Hollbrook, gave life to a memorable villain in the form of Donald Pierce and he is pure evil in this film and I consider him one of the best villains from the X-Men films.
“Logan” is one of the best films of 2017 and I give a huge recommendation to it.