The (almost) perfect culmination of years of mutant cinema, and the perfect preamble before the character’s recovery
There will be those who will affirm without embarrassment that ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is the best superhero movie of all time, but this, like everything, depends on taste, and there will also be those who prefer someone who handles the codes of the genre from a perspective more attached to the earth, more mundane. It is the case of ‘logan‘ that you can recover on Disney+.
This film marked goodbye for the most charismatic member of the X-Men, although we would still have to see, two years later, a lackluster farewell for Marvel’s group of mutants, ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’. But already in 2017, Wolverine had said goodbye to the screens (not definitively, because he will return this summer in ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’) with a dark, dramatic film, and that he had nothing to do with. the explosions of color that Disney’s Marvel was already getting us used to (which at that time was only a year away from releasing ‘Infinity War’).
‘Logan’ takes us to a near future where mutants are almost extinct: Logan/Wolverine, old and tired, takes care of a sick Professor X. But he returns to action when a woman asks him to take a young mutant named Laura to safety. The girl, created from Logan’s DNA, has abilities similar to his own. They will have to flee from an organization that wants to capture them, while they discover that their new companion could be key to the survival of the mutants.
With plot elements that intersect with gangster and post-apocalyptic cinema, and with explosions of violence never seen before in superhero cinema and which earned it an R rating, The adult tone of ‘Logan’ is a refreshing twist on superhero movies who at that time was trying to reach as many people as possible. James Mangold’s film delves into themes that films of this type do not usually deal with, much less those of the X-Men, such as aging and loss. The film was never continued despite its success, since shortly after Marvel bought Fox, and ‘Logan’ remained an experiment as isolated as it was fascinating.
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