If
you've ever wanted to watch a little girl roll a severed human head over a
dusty parking lot, go see "Logan." "Logan" is a violent,
gory, hateful, ugly, senseless and charmless movie. Hugh Jackman stars as
Wolverine, aka Logan, a man with retractable claws in his hands. He connects
with Laura, a mutant like himself. The girl is trying to escape from mistreatment
in Mexico to a safe house in Canada called "Eden." She is being
pursued by a bad guy, a white man with – you guessed it – a Southern accent. And
I bet you already know the bad guy's name – it's Donald.
Donald
chasing a Mexican girl who must escape to safety in Canada – I know what you
are thinking. This is an artistically and intellectually ambitious film that
will deliver more than clichés. Abandon all such hope anyone who buys a ticket
for this splatter mess. In fact why not just stay home and watch terrorist
videos on YouTube?
Hugh
Jackman may as well not even have appeared in this bloated, exploitative,
anti-human mess. The film is just one long hyperviolent chase scene. Donald
catches up with Logan and Laura, and there is a lengthy fight involving
decapitations, dismemberment, and graphic impalement of various body parts. You
see Logan's blades puncturing faces and skulls. When the director feels that
the fight scene has gone on long enough, Logan and Laura make a temporary
escape. Donald regroups and again gives chase. Lather, rinse, repeat.
There
are a couple of gratuitous Christophobic images. One of the bad guys has a Christian
cross tattooed on his arm. The arm is removed from his body. In another scene,
a cross is repurposed into an X, for X-Men.
Thanks. I was going to pass anyway most likely but now for sure. If I want to see that kind of senseless violence,brutality,bloodletting, and evisceration I can watch Congress sessions on CSPAN.
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