We just saw Logan, which Hugh Jackman mentioned was going to be his last movie. When he had looked everlasting and like a skilled and trained killing machine, in this movie we could tell he was not doing well. After being born before the Civil War and fighting in every war for the United States, suddenly in 2029, twelve years from now, he looks aged and in frail health. Suddenly, the adamantium skeleton he was gifted with by crazed scientists turned against him and started slowly poisoning him.
Anyways, the story picks up with him and Prof. X kind of living together/hiding in the middle of the desert. They have with them an albino which I was unfamilar with, Caliban. The main story is Logan is trying to secure enough money for a boat so him and Prof X can buy a boat and disappear in the ocean. A nurse/Mexican lady finds him and wants him to help her. As usual, Mr. Personality wants nothing to do with them. Fast forward fifteen minutes, the nurse is dead and he finds out the girl is a miniature Wolverine.
From this point, they are fighting a group of madmen, we find out the girl is from a Mexican experiment to bring back the mutants but for use as weapons, not to be thought of as people. The bad guys keep the albino who has tracking abilities and can locate mutants. Everywhere they go, they are surely to be found which makes for a nice slashy-slashy fight with Wolverine and his knives. At one point, Eriq LaSalle and his family befriend them on the road and invite them to dinner which makes me think, ahhh, they're all going to die. It never ends well, with people who help Logan.
To raise the stakes, they come out with a Logan duplicate who "has no soul" and just wants to kill and fight. He ultimately manages to kill Prof. X and the LaSalle family. Logan/Wolverine is not doing so good throughout most of the movie but he rallies like the soldier he is. His mission becomes to get the young girl to a location in North Dakota where the friends said they would all meet to head into Canada and somehow be free. Logan doesn't want to go because he is sure it is a bullshit place conjured from the comic books the kids have been reading. They get there and there is no fancy facility, but there is a shack which the kids use to gather and rest for the final showdown scene.
Like Popeye, Logan injects a magical green mixture and becomes the Wolverine we are used to in the other movies. He kills about half of the bad guys as he chases the doctor at the lead. He lets him talk for a minute before blowing his head off. The kids join in the mayhem and kill a couple guys themselves with their powers. Sadly, the soulless Logan comes out and pretty much kills him our Logan by stabbing him unto a tree. The young girl pays the favor back by blowing the bad guys head off with an adamantium bullet Logan has been carrying around for some time.
I don't particularly like when the hero dies, most of those Chinese movies do the same and it always pisses me off. I guess it is a good point for the kids to pick up and take the lead.
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