The End

Logan (2017) a perspective review

Logan is not a superhero film, to start the context with. It is a film about a superhero that is ending. The movie if viewed on a different way on which i was able to comprehend throughout the entirety of the scenery, it is without a doubt a commentary or an opinion to this never ending superhero genre cinematic blow out.

Now I'm not saying James Mangold idea of giving an opinion to this cliche and tiring genre is to use an specific events to a rather comic book character that has being adapted on a big screen for decades by one man--Hugh Jackman. No! I didn't conclude my perspective on this film because I hate superhero and I love irony. Damn, I love Superhero film, I always have a desire of seeing them they are fun and exciting, but sometimes I'm tired of it.

I take a look at Mangold's Logan as if its a part of a person's emotion. Come think about Superhero movies like a man working 5 days a week, waiting for Friday to end, this man enjoys his Job but he gets tired of it. That's what I thought about Logan. It's probably, if not the best well... the best "Superhero film" I have seen since The Dark Knight or Wonder Woman and probably even more.

The movie takes the usual context of a superhero movie and scrap it out. The reason why its so good, is not only the story and character driven elements is amazing, but also because it took risk like no other film in this category would do, Logan is pretty much Deadpool, both are a satire or a comment to this colorful genre but Deadpool is pretty much straightforward while Logan is unintentional (or is it?). Well my best guess lies behind the actors of this films. They both had an enthusiasm into playing this characters, and both of them seems to be loved by the fanstechnically making them the official faces of this superheroes. The other differences is Hugh Jackman has been playing Wolverine for so long while Ryan Reynolds has just been starting out.

Let's get out of the comparison, I just insert that because of their similarities in the approach, and that's what exactly the reason of why I got immersed into this film, The Approach. I want to talk about first how this film commented through its own genre, and it's by using a comic book itself. There's a point where a plot Logan could end into some sort mediocre approach, like when we first introduced to Dafne Keen's character X-23 or Laura, she's part of this new mutant project and a nurse wanted to protect her, thus hiring an old frail Logan who is currently one of the few Mutants. They are talking about bringing this mutant kid into a place called Eden where she'll be safe but it ended up a make up from a comic book panel which doesn't really clarified throughout the film and that is just a genius story telling there.

The visual helps a hundred percent on this movie. It's beautiful and immersive. It took place around the desert of Mexican borders, reminds you of a western film. Which is funny, because the other approach of commentary take of this movie other than the usage of comic books inside a comic book movie is the reflection of the genre and the visual. Logan reflects to a genre that also once grace throughout the big screen like what Superhero genre is nowadays, Western. Isn't that genius ? It's amazing and so compelling the moment I realize that, and my internal film enthusiasm sparks in. This is the reason why I watch movie. It is rare to have that some sort of an opinion on a blockbuster film or to say it safe a superhero movie, last time I heard it, is from  Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. 

Another thing that stands out of this film is the Action, of course its a Wolverine movie, an action seems to be necessary, which is it necessary for the story because things will happen throughout their journey or our heroes progression but at the same time those great action sequence are not really necessary if you go away from a plot perspective. The movie can still work if you remove all the slashing scenes and just include the hiding, the chase and the intensity and doesn't even have to be R-18 but the movie will still work flawlessly, but those actions, is bonus that added more depths to the story.

Other films struggles into using action to create a better depth to the whole plot.But the thing is, Logan uses action to create symmetry or a balance of its tone thus making the story more interesting despite of how it could be much more simple compare to other superhero movies that tries hard to be complicated and deep. And all of those thing could only be achieved with actors performance in the movie. I enjoyed superhero films Yes, but I'm not really a huge fan of this genre. And I would say Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman did not only a great job portraying their characters but also giving a performance that boost the story of the whole film.

Those kind of performance are very rare now to superhero genre, yes portrayal is part of performance but which a lot actor in Marvel and DC film have achieved, but what I mean is the other performance on which the actor immerses his performance from the emotional process that this movie demands while portraying a familiar character, which what Heath Ledger did to his Joker. Both Hugh and ser Patrick Stewart have perfectly executes character emotions in this movie. The last time a cried on a sueperhero film is Wonder Woman, and its not because of emotion that it provided from its plot but because I'm very huge fan of Wonder Woman and seeing her getting portrayed the way she should be on the big screen touches my inner childhood dreams, In Logan I cried myself out because of its story and emotion that I usually gets on a films that intentionally provide it or to movies that is not a superhero movie.

This could've been a different movie, a new western film maybe but not, it still came a from a comic book movie, and the filmmaker's behind this seems to get stuck and its like they uses the genre to just deal with it. Like I said Logan is not a superhero film, It's a film about Superhero, and the genre became suddenly a big deal. That I think what makes Logan a great, because it uses a great irony and an ending. It doesn't necessarily ends the universe on which Logan is in with, or the genre, but it ends a character portrayal that there might have a big impact to the whole Superhero cinematic glory.