Newspaper Article

‘Logan’ succeeds as unique bookend to ‘Wolverine’ series

Weiss, Josh

2017

Overview

[...]after nearly two decades of playing such a pivotal comic book role that predates both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe, Jackman is hanging up his bloodied wife beater and closing the box of cigars that is this chapter of his acting career with “Logan” (premieres March 3), the swan song of a character who has endured for so long in the annals of history and on the silver screen. In this future, the X-Men are no more (the original comics of their exploits exist, but are simply exaggerations of real-world events), Professor X (Patrick Stewart in a particularly vulnerable performance that would put James McAvoy to shame) is having horrible psychic seizures in a rusting Mexican hideout and Wolverine (aka James Howlett) is now making a living as a limo driver. Yes, Laura (or X-23) is his daughter and the circumstances surrounding her upbringing are like something out of “The Boys From Brazil” and its setup was a quick, little you-already-left-the-theater-to-go-pee post-credits scene after this past summer’s “X-Men Apocalypse.” If the “Guardians of the Galaxy” (their sequel coming out in May) are the neighborhood kids playing stickball outside, then Wolverine is the crotchety old man telling...

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• Subject: Actors / Jackman, Hugh / Males / McAvoy, James / Motion pictures / Personality / Singer, Bryan