First Impression: Logan

First Impression: Logan

I try not to give spoilers for first impression films, as I don’t want to ruin any surprises or plot twists that might occur in the film. For this movie review it will be harder as I disliked the film so explaining why may prove to be difficult.

Before seeing Logan, I hadn’t seen any promotion for the movie whatsoever. No movie posters, no film trailers. Nothing. I was a bit apprehensive about seeing the film. I had a basic, and I mean absolute basic, understanding of the X-Men franchise. I thought I knew just about enough to get me through the film which, to be fair, I did. There wasn’t anything so far-fetched in the film that would require an overly extensive knowledge of the franchise, much to my relief. But having said that the movie could have been a lot better for the plot line they were trying to tell.

The action sequences seemed to go on for way too long. As I’m sure with most X-Men/Wolverine films the action sequences will make up most of the film as it is an action film. In Logan, however, I felt they were repetitive and went on for much too long. As Logan is more about the emotional side of the character than the action aspect I felt that they could have cut down the action sequences and had more time to develop the emotional personality of the character. If they had done this I think I would have connected with the film a lot more than I did.

A pet peeve of mine in films is when there is a bi-lingual character and instead of speaking in English or the primary language of the other characters in the scene they first say the line in another language and must repeat themselves in English. This happened quite frequently in Logan. I find it annoying and a complete waste of time. It had already been established the character did not speak English as their first language but they can speak it. I don’t see the point in wasting time in putting these details in the script when they have no relevance to the film in the first place. In my opinion, its padding for the script and if your script needs to be padded then maybe you need a few more weeks to go and re-work the script.

Overall, I found the film average at best. After checking the reviews for the film (8.7/10 – IMDB, 93% - Rotten Tomatoes and 4.5/5 – Entertainment.ie) I was expecting a lot more than what I got. Maybe it’s because I don't follow the franchise and I don’t make a habit of watching Marvel movies but there are aspects of the film that need to be revisited. The film was ok but I don’t think I’ll ever sit down and watch it again, or any other X-Men/Wolverine film for that matter.

First Impression Rating: 1.5/5