What a way to end a franchise. I mean the last movie before this one had a bunch of X-Men fighting an ancient Pharaoh from Egypt.
Now we're dealing with an old decrepit Wolverine taking care of an even older and more decrepit Charles Xavier who are living in a time when mutants are all but gone there hasn't been anybody reborn and the entire world seems to be spiralling into indifference.
It's all character interaction and the breaking down of relationships over the years as Logan becomes more distance and Charles Xavier becomes incredibly light-hearted and partially demented.
So Logan drives a limo around making money mainly to acquire medication that keeps Charles Xavier from mentally breaking down and causing massive psychological trauma.
So Logan drives a limo around making money mainly to acquire medication that keeps Charles Xavier from mentally breaking down and causing massive psychological trauma.
He's got this other random guy who helps him out who has the mutant power to find other mutants. At some point at Logan Gets involved in this weird scheme involving the genetically modified kid and there's this organisation that links to the group of people that were experimenting on him that are trying to find the kid and this leads to a whole fiasco where Logan has to drive up to North Dakota to try and get the kid into the Canadian border away from this organisation.
Which doesn't make any sense to me given that the organisation was funded originally in Canada so you think they still have a connection there.
We find out later on that the girl is actually a descendant of Logan because she was a genetically modified child who was artificially inseminated into a woman using DNA from Logan.
It's a really interesting way to introduce X 23 into the X-Men movie franchise. At this point we've seen plenty of other Wolverine characters for route. Including Lady Deathstrike, sabertooth and even a incredibly awkward redesigned version of Deadpool. The only one we didn't get was Omega Red and even then he might be reference somewhere in the background.
What is it with X-Men movies and making me feel like I'm two to three movies out of the loop. We get introduced into this movie and it feels as if we've been hurled several movies ahead. Which admittedly is kind of the point. But it's still just kind of odd having this old Wolverine character and an ancient Xavier existing in a world where everything else has fallen apart.
This is happened in a few of the other X-Men movies to. X-Men 3 doesn't really feel like it connected with X-Men 2. Those First Class movies all feel a little out of the loop, even the apocalypse film felt like it belongs somewhere else. But somehow they're all intermix together. And it's the wonderful inconsistency of the X-Men universe that makes it all work so well. Much like the comic books this franchise both connects and kind of doesn't connect with its own mythology.
This might be the weirdest comparison but I was thinking a lot about the film The Death of a Chinese bookie while watching this. and I have the same complaint he arose I had about that movie. I kind of wish the action was played down.
I don't think we needed a great Chase sequence. We didn't need an organisation chasing down this girl. You could have just had this woman pop-up Ask Logan for help have him be reluctant to have her die and then have the kid fall into his responsibilities. That it would just be a movie about an old men trying to get a girl to a destination.
It's nice and simple. It's just Logan trying to get this one kid away from this organisation. Yeah there's some other kids involved but really none of that matters. Nothing in this movie matters. The mutants are gone, the cause is gone, everyone's dead. Even the organisation that's hunting these kids down seems a little aimless. They just want to use these kids as soldiers or some such nonsense.
The whole future aspect was played really well. They were smart enough to change very mynute things but left most alone. The weirdest thing possible reference to Giant mechanized robots working in super modified corn fields. Otherwise everything else is still the same. mobile phones for Less work the same cars still work the same there's automated trucks but that's nothing to amazing.
This is the best ending we could hope for in this long and confusing franchise of X-Men films. Ultimately ends well but at the death of everything before it.
Just watching Patrick Stewart playing his Xavier character but in a much more loose eccentric and kind manner might be the best reason to watch this movie.
Here's something weird to ponder. Patrick Stewart plays Captain Picard who buried Captain Kirk in an undisclosed location under a bunch of rocks. And now in this movie when Patrick Stewart's character dies he's buried under a undisclosed location of rocks. There's absolutely no connection between these two films but there's something oddly poetic about it. Maybe that's just to me.
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