When its not showering you in blood, its trying to make you spill tears.
Its much more comfortable with the former than the latter.
Here, we get a peek into the future…and its not a pretty picture.
At 48, hes so ripped and inflated, he looks like a party-favor balloon animal.
It turns out that the future is a dark time for mutants like Logan.
There arent many of them left.
Logan looks after him while keeping him hidden in the Mexican desert.
Loganis essentially a road movie, but its a dark one (and a very long one).
Mangold shoots the film in a grungy, south-of-the-border Peckinpah palette.
There isnt a lot of hope in the movie.
The stakes arent grandiose, no ones saving the world.
Since Lauras mutant physical gifts are so identical to Logans, theres a melancholy to their relationship.
Shes the daughter he never slowed down enough to allow himself to have.
The loner has to learn to put someone else first.
