MOVIE Logan (Wolverine 3)

I think fans of the comic will truly enjoy Logan, and even those who don’t–who maybe only have a cursory knowledge of the characters via media osmosis–will find a solid, gutsy action movie with more emotion than you’d get in a lot of blockbusters. This is honestly one of the best comic book movies of all time.

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And make no mistake, Logan is a movie you will want to talk about it. Logan is a movie that manages to entertain you and challenge you, that feels a true story regardless of being in the world of X-Men. It’s just as much an arthouse drama, or a prestige picture, as it is a big-budget, action-fantasy movie starring Wolverine. And how many other superhero movies can you say that about?

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Logan is a unique film. It’s not a game-changer for the X-Men franchise or the superhero genre as a whole. It could really only be done with Jackman signing off and with Mangold being given the authority to really cut loose and present a clear, uncompromised vision. The result is a movie that does have a few faults (like most X-Men movies, it’s a little too long), but overall Logan provides a fond farewell to Jackman and the character he defined for a generation.

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You might assume James Mangold’s film, which had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this evening, is meant as a sequel to the two other solo Wolverine pictures, 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine and 2013’s The Wolverine. But watching it, you’re struck by the thought that it could be set in a world in which those earlier films were just films – and this paranoid, punishingly violent noir western is the real, shotgun-toting, limb-lopping deal.

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But the heart of the movie is the unexpectedly poignant relationship between Xavier and Logan: I’d be tempted to call them the Steptoe and Son of the mutant world, although in fact Logan goes into Basil Fawlty mode at one stage with his own pickup truck, attempting to trash it – perhaps to teach it a lesson. Logan is a forthright, muscular movie which preserves the X-Men’s strange, exotic idealism.

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Yet Logan exists as a fascinating example of where mainstream cinema sits at this moment. To wit, the copious moviegoers who flock to Logan and revel in the genre appropriation would never think to sample the genuine article absent the super-heroic franchise trappings. But if comic book superhero films (or fantastical action movies like the Fast and Furious or Mission: Impossible franchises) are becoming the new genre, then we should hope that they, on average, are at least as good as Logan.

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"Logan" self-consciously aspires to retire the steel-clawed hero with epic grandeur, and the results are often rousingly bleak. And yet, the risks taken only make the formulaic redemption story and cliched emotional underpinnings increasingly frustrating.

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Yet this isn’t a performers’ movie—it's too hung up on its mission for that. The themes of Logan are ragingly topical, pointing in the direction of things that every decent American should care about right now. But themes aren’t feelings or attributes or actions; they’re almost not even ideas. They’re not the explosions that shake you to the core, like the thunder of unease you feel after you’ve watched a movie like Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, or that picture’s natural predecessor, Ingmar Bergman’s Shame. They’re just things you make movies about. The great political movies of our time are yet to be made, and they will come. Logan, by either luck or prescience or some combination of both, feels political, but it’s really just business as usual in the comic-book-movie game.

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What makes Logan special is how it effortlessly navigates different genres and tones. It’s a road movie, but it’s also an action film with ambitious set pieces. It’s a sci-fi superhero film, but it’s also infused with a lot of humor and tenderness. Most importantly, it’s a fitting conclusion for one of the most iconic comic book character portrayals of the past 20 years.

I laughed. I cried. And I was grateful to have gone on the entire cinematic journey with Hugh Jackman’s character all these years. Logan is an incredible film. It’s my favorite X-Men film. And it might even be my favorite superhero film of all time.

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Logan finds the perfect mix of action, drama, comedy and even horror. It never drags from start to finish, and after the credits rolled I wished so badly I could sit back down and watch it again. Marvel proved with its own movies that its characters belong grounded in reality, and while I don’t think that’s necessarily true for ALL of the X-Men, Wolverine is clearly one of those characters. Logan is a movie that would never get made under the Disney banner, and it makes an incredible case for giving violent characters like Logan and Deadpool a bigger budget in addition to an “R” rating.

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Movies like this are why the R-rating is so valuable. Freed from the MPAA’s squeamishness over blood, “Logan” is able to display the full force and fury its protagonist’s powers can wreak. Conversely, the damage done to Wolverine’s body is no longer sold through grunts and red-stained wife-beaters, but through gory makeup that will make fans cry out in terror. While Fox’s R-rated “Deadpool” played with the expanded limits with a gleeful desire to shock, “Logan” uses its increased violence to land the threat of death and its fatality like no other superhero movie has dared. The result is a powerful, poignant, and provocative film that will make your pulse race, your heart ache, and your head spin.

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Fanatic schrieb:

Überlege ob ich den Comic davor oder danach lesen soll.. Gmm

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dynosys schrieb:

großartig

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Zhadow schrieb:

Gestern gesehen und ja… war sehr gut. Blutig, dreckig, hart, kompromisslos aber auch mit vielen sehr ruhigen Momenten wie die Trailer es richtig vermuten liessen. Am Ende einfach vielleicht 10…15min zu lang geraten. Zieht sich in manchen Momenten doch etwas. Trotzdem aber ein toller und verdienter Abgesang auf Hugh Jackman in seiner wohl prägendsten Rolle. Nicht der beste Film aus dem X-Men Universum, aber sicherlich ganz oben mit dabei.

8.5 / 10

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Fanatic schrieb:

Welche fandest du noch besser?

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1. X2
2. X-Men: First Class
3. Logan
4. X-Men
5. X-Men: Days of Future Past
6. Deadpool
7. The Wolverine
8. X-Men: Apocalypse
9. X-Men: The Last Stand
10. X-Men Origins: Wolverine