Logan (film)

Logan is the third Spin-Off film in the X-Men Cinematic Universe that follows the mutant superhero James "Logan" Howlett ("Wolverine") after X Men Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine, the latter of which shares a director in James Mangold. This film marks the final appearance of both Hugh Jackman as Wolverine (or was thought to be at the time) and Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier. The film also stars Dafne Keen as Laura, Richard E. Grant as Doctor Zander Rice, Boyd Holbrook as Donald Pierce, Stephen Merchant as Caliban, Eriq LaSalle, and Elise Neal. The first volume of Old Man Logan; Innocence Lost; and classic westerns such as The Cowboys, The Shootist, and Shane are cited as the story's primary influences.

Based on the comic story Old Man Logan, in the year 2029, the majority of mutantkind is extinct. With the age of Superheroes now long gone, an aged Logan tries to live quietly on the Mexican border as he cares for a mentally ill Charles Xavier, even as his own Healing Factor decays. But when a young girl with powers identical to Logan's named Laura comes looking for the aging mutant, Logan soon lands in the middle of one last battle, this time against mutant-hunting mercenaries and a Mega-Corp that wants Laura for their own sinister purposes.

A black-and-white version of the film (Logan Noir) was given a one-night showing in select theatres on the May 16, 2017, one week before the film's home video release. This version of the film was packaged alongside the original version in the film's Blu-ray release. Logan is also notable for being the first-ever film adaptation of a superhero comic book to receive an Academy Award nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.

A short film teasing Deadpool 2, Deadpool: No Good Deed, played before Logan in US and Canadian theaters. It has no actual connection to this film, though.

Though Logan was initially an Elseworld style story unconnected to other X-Men films, it was folded into the main timeline of films as the definitive Downer Ending of the X-Men by Deadpool & Wolverine, which at least upped the universe to a Bittersweet Ending.

Tropes used in Logan (film) include:

• Accidental Murder: The film heavily implies that one of Charles's seizures accidentally killed several of the X-Men.
• And Starring: The film's opening credits end with "And Introducing Dafne Keen."
• Asleep for Days: Logan loses consciousness for two days straight having been completely worn out from both mental and physical exhaustion from being on the run for an entire week.
• Bittersweet Ending: Hard emphasis on the bitter part. The X-Men are no more and mutantkind is on the verge of extinction. But Logan, Charles, and Caliban all found peace before and in death, Transigen has been destroyed, and Laura and the remaining mutants are now free to live their lives in peace. Even the final shot is heartbreakingly beautiful and sweet: Laura turns the cross on Logan's grave into an X, as if a sendoff to everything and everyone the X-Men were.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Even more so than both Deadpool films.
• Celebrity Paradox: The actual Marvel X-Men comic books show up, as, uh, comic books sanctioned by the X-Men. Wolverine, for his part, doesn't approve.
• Darker and Edgier: This film beats Les Miserables as Hugh Jackman's most saddest and cynical work yet!
  • Also this is what this movie is to the X-Men films to what Avengers: Infinity War is to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • Out of all Marvel film adaptations in general, this is the saddest, serious, cynical, serious, and most pessimistic of all of them, even beating Avengers: Infinity War. It lives nowhere near the '70s B-movie horror film campiness of Blade, nowhere near the sci-fi humor of Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and nowhere near the Played for Laughs Deadpool. It's its own, unique, sadness.
• Famous Last Words: "Oh, so this is what it feels like.", said by Wolver-err, uhh... Logan.
• Gorn: Well...
• Knight of Cerebus: The villains in this movie are even more serious than other X-Men movie villains.
• Kill 'em All: Every significant character in the movie save for Laura is dead by the time the credits roll.
• R-Rated Opening: The opening fight would never get away with a PG-13. Logan's first line is "Fuck," a couple of gang members are trying to jack his limo's rims, he's shot by them, and in the fight that follows, Logan severs limbs and skewers an adversary's head with his claws. The small-scale brutality of the fight also establishes that this is going to be a much more brutal experience than any of the other X-Men movies.
• Shout-Out: Now, why do we hear Johnny Cash songs throughout the film?