LOGAN 2017

Title : Logan 2017

Language : English

Release Date : February 17, 2017 (Berlin)

March 3, 2017 (United States)

Directed By : James Mangold

Distributed By : 20th Century Fox

Logan is a 2017 American superhero film produced by Marvel Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, and The Donners' Company, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the tenth installment in the X-Men film series, as well as the third Wolverine solo film following X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013), and takes place in an alternate universe seperate from the continuity of the main films according to Hugh Jackman. The film, which takes inspiration from the "Old Man Logan" comic series by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, follows an aged Wolverine defending his daughter Laura Kinney from the villainous Reavers led by Zander Rice and Donald Pierce.

The film is directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Frank and Michael Green, from a story by Mangold. Hugh Jackman stars as Logan in his final portrayal of the character after having played the role for 17 years, with Patrick Stewart co-starring as Charles Xavier. Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Dafne Keen (in her first film role), Eriq La Salle, Elise Neal and Elizabeth Rodriguez are all featured in supporting roles. Principal photography began in Louisiana on May 2, 2016 and ended on August 19, 2016 in New Mexico. The locations used for Logan were mainly Louisiana, New Mexico and Mississippi.

Logan premiered at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on February 17, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 3, 2017, in standard and IMAX formats. The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences. It is the best-reviewed film in the X-Men series, and was considered by some as one of the best superhero films of all-time. It grossed over $616 million worldwide against its $97 million budget, making it the ninth highest grossing film of 2017.

Plot

In 2029, no mutants have been born in 25 years. James Logan Howlett's healing ability has slowed and his body has aged; he spends his days drinking and working as a limo driver in El Paso, Texas. In an abandoned smelting plant in Northern Mexico, he and mutant tracker Caliban care for Charles Xavier/Professor X; Charles suffers from a brain disease that causes him to lose control of his telepathic abilities, with destructive effects.

Logan is approached by Gabriela Lopez, a former nurse from a biotechnological corporation, Alkali-Transigen, who asks him to escort her and an 11-year-old girl, Laura Kinney, to Eden, a refuge in North Dakota. Logan reluctantly accepts, but finds Gabriela dead. At his hideout, Logan is confronted by Gabriela's killer, Transigen's cyborg chief of security, Donald Pierce, who is looking for Laura. Laura has stowed away in Logan's limo, and has powers similar to Logan's. She, Logan and Charles escape Pierce and his enforcers, the Reavers, but Caliban is captured.

Logan and Charles learn from Gabriela's cellphone that Laura is one of several mutant children that Transigen created from mutant DNA samples for use as weapons. After they proved difficult to control, Gabriela and the nurses helped children escape euthanasia; Laura, who was created from Logan's DNA, became separated when she was smuggled into the United States.

At a hotel in Oklahoma City, Logan discovers that Eden appears in an X-Men comic in Laura's possession, and assumes it is fictional. The Reavers arrive, but Charles, appearing to have a seizure, incapacitates everyone in the hotel. Logan kills the attackers, injects Charles with a suppressant, and escapes. Dr. Zander Rice, head of Transigen, convinces Caliban that they will not harm Logan and Charles if Caliban helps them find Laura.

Logan, Laura, and Charles help a farming family, the Munsons, after a traffic incident, and accept an offer of dinner at their home. Logan sees off enforcers from a corporate farm harassing the family patriarch, Will. X-24, a feral clone of Logan, murders Charles and Will's family, stabs Will, and captures Laura. Caliban sets off grenades to destroy the Transigen van in which he is held captive, killing himself and several Reavers and injuring Pierce. Logan engages X-24, but is outmatched. Will impales X-24 on farm equipment using his truck, but dies from his injuries. Logan and Laura escape with Charles's body.

After burying Charles, Logan passes out from rage and exhaustion. After Laura takes Logan to a doctor to do a check up after they left she convinces him to complete the journey. They arrive at Eden, a camp run by Rictor and the other escaped Transigen test subjects. Laura discovers an adamantium bullet Logan has kept since his escape from Weapon X and plans to use to commit suicide. Logan learns that the children plan to journey to Canada, and decides to separate from them, to Laura's dismay.

The children are captured by the Reavers. Logan takes an overdose of serum given to him by Rictor that increases his physical abilities and restores his healing ability. He slaughters most of the Reavers and rescues Laura, but the serum wears off. As Pierce holds Rictor at gunpoint, Rice tells Logan, who killed Rice's father years ago while escaping from Weapon X, that the decline of mutants is due to a Transigen virus that Rice created and distributed. Logan shoots Rice dead and attacks Pierce by making him lose his robotic arm. A regenerated X-24, enraged by Rice's death, engages Logan. With their guards distracted, the children kill the Reavers and Pierce. Rictor uses his seismic powers to flip a truck onto X-24. X-24 impales Logan on a tree branch, but Laura shoots the adamantium bullet into his head, killing him. Severely wounded, Logan tells Laura to not be the weapon she was made to be. Laura finally addresses him as her father and Logan dies peacefully in her arms. The children hold a burial and Laura turns the cross on Logan's grave to its side to create an X before they continue their journey.