Review of Logan (2017) by Anna B — 06 Jun 2017

I was very surprised to read afterwards that it's not actually directly based on that Mark Millar comic. It has that Millar stench of edgy nihilism to it. I liked the first act, but Prof. X self-consciously dropping F-bombs is about the time I started having a hard time taking it seriously.

I bumped up the grade (probably too much) for some good action and because the ending made me cry, but there's also a lot of bad action, myriad script problems (bad pacing, pointless digressions, implausibly convenient villain incompetence), and a miserable tone that feels like the "no fun allowed" attitude that everyone complains about in the DC movies (none of which I have seen as of writing).

I miss the tone of "First Class". I like what Singer did after that but I can't help but imagine a world in which Matthew Vaughan was given free reign over the franchise. Imagine having fun watching a superhero movie.