{"id":2139,"date":"2017-03-15T20:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T02:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2017-03-15T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T02:06:56","slug":"movie-review-logan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/15\/movie-review-logan\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review &#8211; Logan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Logan<\/h1>\n<p>Directed by James Mangold<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2140\" src=\"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Logan-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Logan poster\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Logan-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Logan.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook, Stephan Merchant, Richard E. Grant, and introducing Dafne Keen<\/p>\n<h3>Backstory<\/h3>\n<p>Well, here we are.\u00a0 After 17 years and 9 films, Hugh Jackman has chosen to hang up the adamantium claws and retire from playing Wolverine.\u00a0 And what better way to go out on than in a story loosely based on Wolverine&#8217;s last ride in the comics, <em>Old Man Logan<\/em>?\u00a0 And with <em>Deadpool <\/em>opening the door for R-rated superhero films, finally we can get all the blood and gore associated with a hero who&#8217;s main power is knives coming out of his hands.\u00a0 Is Jackman&#8217;s send-off a great finale?<\/p>\n<h3>Plot<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s many years in the future.\u00a0 No mutants have been born in years, and it looks like their kind is dying off.\u00a0 Logan makes a meager living as a limo driver.\u00a0 His healing factor isn&#8217;t what it used to be, as he now takes longer to heal and it can leave nasty scars.\u00a0 He cares for an ailing Professor Charles Xavier, who is now prone to seizures.\u00a0 And being the world&#8217;s most powerful telepath, his seizures can take out dozens.\u00a0 And then a mysterious little girl named Laura is thrown into his life.\u00a0 Laura seems to have powers just like Logan&#8217;s&#8230;complete with adamantium claws.\u00a0 Before long, Logan, Laura, and Charles are off on one last road trip, to get Laura to safe haven, and protect her from the dark forces in pursuit.\u00a0 Will Logan survive this final journey?<\/p>\n<h3>What I Liked<\/h3>\n<p>There are stellar performances all around.\u00a0 Jackman gives it his all in his final show as Logan.\u00a0 This is a Logan who&#8217;s very much near the end and is just trying to do right before it&#8217;s all over.\u00a0 Stewart is also good as Xavier, again, as a man who has become very broken by life.\u00a0 I also like the music and the overall look of the film.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got a very 1970s vibe to it, which is cool.<\/p>\n<h3>What I Didn&#8217;t Like<\/h3>\n<p>We really don&#8217;t get to know who the villain is and his plot until the literal final moments of the film, so it would have been\u00a0 nice if we got to know him better.\u00a0 And as good as that R-rating is for pushing the violence, it does get somewhat gratuitous at times.<\/p>\n<h3>Final Verdict<\/h3>\n<p>May have felt my lower lip quiver a little bit as the end, as we said good-bye to Wolverine.\u00a0 A fitting end for the character.<\/p>\n<h1>3.5 Nibs<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Directed by James Mangold Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook, Stephan Merchant, Richard E. Grant, and introducing Dafne Keen Backstory Well, here we are.\u00a0 After 17 years and 9 films, Hugh Jackman has chosen to hang up the adamantium claws and retire from playing Wolverine.\u00a0 And what better way to go out on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/15\/movie-review-logan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Movie Review &#8211; Logan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaosinabox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}