Logan SPOILERS Movie Review 

Logan died for his daughter. So she could get to a safe country and have a better life. And that's what he told her before he died. He told her to be better than him and enjoy her life, despite your past. Which he wasn't able to allow himself to do. Logan died for everything that he had left to live for. And he was at peace with his decision. Self sacrifice, one of the highest expressions of love. He never said he loved her, he showed her.

I didn't see it so much as the X-Men losing... the ending I thought was strongly hinting that what the X-Men represented was going to live on and be represented by a new generation. The idea of a group of young mutants all looking out for each other like a family was essentially Xavier's dream and goal right?

The actress who played X23 was phenomenal! She broke my heart!😢

Grace, I love you but I have never disagreed with you more. I thought the third act was beautiful. Wolverine died saving those kids and essentially carrying on the torch that he reluctantly took from Charles after his death. He died doing what any other xmen would have done- protecting the potential future of mutants and humans living in harmony.

They died giving these kids a new life. I didn't get the feeling that they died for nothing. Just saying :)

He died for them, I think that's pretty heroic don't you think?

did u talk about that girl ...Laura ..she was an absolute brilliance

Logan didn't die for nothing he died fighting for his daughter protecting the last thing he has left and protecting the last of his kind if you call that dying for nothing than what is worth dying for?

SHE DIDN'T SEEM CHOKED UP ABOUT IT?!?!?!? DID U NOT SEE LOGAN´S DEATH SCENE?!?!?

I respect your opinion Grace but THEY'RE KIDS. That's the point. They don't know right from wrong.

14:59 The X-Men did not lose. Despite how tragic they all died with honor, believing in what they were doing and what they did. Logan saved his "daughter" and all her friends. He passed on a legacy no one else could have done.

What a terrible review of the third act. Died for nothing? What are you talking about. He finally saw a reason worth dying for. And I can't believe people always want to make everything political instead of enjoying themselves.

I like this review and the way you presented it, but I couldn't disagree with you more about the final act. I was so, so happy that there was no bullshit BvS 'dirt rising off the grave scene'. It was a ballsy ending, and guess what? If you felt unhappy at his death, congratulations! A piece of art made you feel something. Sometimes what makes a movie great is that it punches you in the gut, instead of making you feel great. Also he didn't die for nothing! The movie kept throwing in evidence that Logan was on the verge of giving up everything, even up to him openly expressing suicidal thoughts. In the third act he found redemption, remembered who he was, and died heroically.

Sometimes the good guys lose. It's life. I think it was beautiful.

Logan died fighting to protect his daughter because he loved her. Just like any loving parent would do for their children. Also, the young mutants sticking together like a family which is what Professor X and Magneto wanted all along. Lastly, if you truly are a comic book fan then you would've mention the "New Mutants" series that was a spin off of the X-Men after the X-Men.

x-23 didn't seem sad??? She literally held Logan's hand as he died and cried believably.

I disagree with some of the points in this review. 1. Logan dying, it made sense for me since he was already dying from the adamantium in his body. I think he sees the new mutants as a way of their race to live on in Canada. Also, I think he really started to feel like a father to X-23 and gives up his life in order to save hers. (The movie could go in a different way but I liked this ending where he dies in one final act of preserving the mutants (like Xavier wanted) and also got a "real" family outside of the X-men. 2. The kids are refugees and not immigrants. BIG DIFFERENCE. They are literally fleeing for their life and I cannot see anything remotely SJW with helping refugees. 3. The kids killing without remorse. It makes them feel like experiments and we can't forget that they have had almost no interactions with people except for the lab-people. They are not good soldiers since they won't kill without any reason but they are still severely damaged by the experiments and upbringing they had. I share your opinion on everything else and i really liked the movie! Thanks for the review :)

Last time I was this early La La Land won best picture !

X-23 changed the cross to an X because he died a hero. Keep in mind she reads the xmen comics.

Wolverine's death in this movie is what I should have felt when Superman died in BvS but I didn't because Zach Snyder and Warner Brothers didn't establish Superman enough. Henry Cavill as Superman was in 2 fucking movies before he died. Fucking 2. Hugh Jackman has portrayed Wolverine in 9 movies. Granted not all the movies were great but still 9 movies (17 years) dedicated to this character is impressive. 20th Century Fox had more than earned the right to do the death of Wolverine. Warner Brothers on the other hand had not earned the right to do the death of such an iconic character. And yes I know that Superman is technically not dead (and that also bothers me because it really shows the lack in confidence over at Warner Brothers) but still.

wolverine has been dead in the comic world for a few years now. and x-23 has taken up the mantle as the new wolverine. so I'm not surprised they killed him off in the movie.

He didn't die for nothing!! He died for the kids he died being an x man for the last time. We wanted Arnold from t2 to survive at the end(although he was missing an arm) but he sacrificed himself so that the others may live and that's exactly what Logan did. He chose to take all the healing green liquid in one shot which he was supposed to ration for a while in order to save the kids. To be wolverine one last time. It was sad to see him die, but he didn't die as Logan, he died as wolverine. The message I get is no matter the adversary even though they may win, you gotta stay true to yourself and keep fighting for what you know to be right.

Everyone says they love the Third Act and guess what I love it too it was a perfect ending to an amazing character. You are on your own in this one girl.

imagin that young wolverine healed aftr getting shot but has no memory of anything that would be cool

Fighting even though it may be impossible to win is incredibly inspiring and heroic. If what we do doesn't matter then all that matters is what what we do. Because thats all there is, what we do, today

Hearing this makes me sad I feel like we lost 2 old friends 😞

You were reading wayyyyyy too far in the whole immigration thing

It isn't demoralizing at all, it's just the end of a chapter. Sad as it may be, there will always be an end. They did a beautiful job with this ending.

Don't even joke, this needs to be done and over for at least 5 years. Let it breathe, redo the franchise, make an FCU with X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

Also they didn't die for nothing... they saved the kids, a next generation of mutants. That's the whole point.

Logan was less affected by Xavier's powers becouse he has adamantium skull around his brain. i think that is why.

Her political views on Logan are warped. She injected a lot of herself into the themes.

No Logan did not die for nothing in my opinion... X23 (Laura) is gonna be like the resistance... Evenge her father and Charles... maybe even take a sample of his DNA ( like Zander Rice did with Calliban in the lab) We get a Logan 2.0!!! Now i think of it cannot wait for a follow up🎬✌🏻

Your seriously overthinking the Immigration thing..................remember its 2029 in their universe at that point.

Very detailed review, Grace! I enjoyed it. A few points: Yes, I think Xavier's seizures did produce a variation of the telepathic "mannequin challenge" that he was able to use in the previous films -- but because he wasn't fully in control of his powers, the victims were both aware of it AND unable to breathe! Caliban reported how freaked out he was when it happened at their original hideout. Also, I think the kids were so emotionally cold because Dr. Rice wanted it that way. They were bred to be weapons -- which is why the staff was told not expose them to social things like birthdays, nicknames, and the like. Unfortunately, his methods were somewhat effective as we see in the end. Likely, X-23 will provide them with something of a moral compass in later adventures. Keep up the great content on this channel, Grace!

Actually Logan was definitely against going to that families house and staying

Logan might have died, but to say the ENTIRE rebellion is lost? There's about 11 or 12 young mutants (with really fucking cool powers) who beg to differ.

Nice review, Grace, but I must say I completely disagree with your third act problems. First off, I'm surprised that a seasoned reviewer like you was suprised by Logan's death. It was pretty obvious from the tone and all the behind the scenes comments by Jackman that this was always supposed to be "The End". I for one would be disappointed if they didn't have the guts to say, this is it --this is how Wolverine dies. It may be hard to predict how Fox is gonna go forward with the X universe (since structurally it's such a huge mess right now), but from the beginning everybody knew this was it's own thing. And they just reintroduced the main X-Men in Apocalypse, so it would be really weird if they didn't evelop them from that end (I would probably prefer a reboot --without Simon Kinberg, please--, but this seems unlikely right now). As far as the corporations winning... well, this is a distopian future, what did you expect? Do you know any distopian future where the evil governments and/or corporations didn't win? Maybe the problem is that we're pretty much already living in a distopia ourselves, so the point hits just too close to home. In the Force Awakens I think the problem comes from a completely different origin. And as much as I love that movie, J. J. really screwed this aspect from a narrative point of view. Because in theory at that point the tables are turned. The new republic (or whatever it's called) IS the status quo and the First Order is the group that's trying to rise above that. But because J. J. had to make the movie so ridiculously close to the OT, in the movie itself the First Order feels just like the Empire, when they actually are not in that position at all not yet, at least). In closing (sorry, this has gone too long already), I must say that when I was watching the movie and they said something like "this couldn't be done in the US and in Canada, so they went to Mexico" I immediately thought "well, that's offensive" (and no, I'm no SJW) -- because apparently, Mexicans have no laws or just don't care if you're gonna do cruel experiments on children. When you brought up this subject I thought, yeah, that bothered her too. But no, you actually thought that THAT was cool. And what was not cool was that mutants have to run away from the US? Because you're considering them only as immigrants, but they were being chased for being mutants (or "patents", actually, but you get my meaning). And in the X movies, the US has almost always been portrayed as mutants unfriendly -- something the X-Men usually are able to revert by the end of each episode, of course. And we all know how Fox is all about consistency in these films... ha! (though it's nice to have some every once in a while).

The phone footage was well edited, perfectly cut at the points. Good job Gabriel.

Richard Grant's character was one of the most chilling I've seen in movies for at least a decade. His delivery of a heartless yet intelligent doctor was amazing.

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Logan died cause his plot point is about to stay and to love. Thats why he is dying. He states he knows why he is dying. But he is always on the run from himself and others- mentally and physically throughout the movie. Prof. X wants him to experience love and to stop running to stay. and Caliban also makes mention that he has to fix something inside. Him dying is closing the plot. cause they wanted the kids and Laura to go on without Logan. If he lived, he would have had to go with Laura. As he felt love and peace with her in the end. and he didn't need to run anymore.

Just discovered your channel and I have been binging on all your reaction and review videos. Love it all!

awwww Grace.. thanks for being so vulnerable! this movie is extraordinary thanks for sharing the experience

that says something when the movie is so good that the reviewer starts to cry when just talking about the movie.....wow.....just wow...I can't wait

Looks like Deadpool is now the main star of the X-Men franchise since Wolverine is no longer anymore.

8:25 that edit, don't think I din't notice Grace. Awwww you're adorable. I loved your review. Much love

I personally think they should have at least given Laura some more lines, she's almost completely silent and the bit she did talk was half in Spanish which keeps you from really getting invested in her especially when you don't know what she said. Being that I speak Spanish the lines she said were powerful and they should have at least subtitled it. When they were in the car he asks her why she never talked before and she starts screaming in Spanish, (this is a rough translation because it's been a while since I've seen it), " How do you expect me to talk to you when every time you talk to me you insult and scream at me and you're intending to abandon me."

Hmmm. I kinda disagree with the third act being so weak. For me at least it was great. It was the weakest part of it yes, but not nearly as bad as you make it sound. Probably because the demoralizing aspect didn't affect me or hit home with me. I thought the kids were cute specially Lizard Boy, and the way they used their powers was great. They were made to be killers. They were trained to be killers and they were killing horrible people that hurt them and were persecuting them. They were defending themselves. And X-23's performance when Logan dies was heart wrenching, specially when she call him daddy. And she knew him for what? Two weeks? Of course she isn't going to be all too devastated for too long. She needed to get out and follow the kids. I get it that the immigration is a big sensible thing nowadays but this is a more artsy type of film and they were clearly going for their vision. And whats art if not a mirror of its time period? I respect and admire the choice.

Wow are you overthinking this movie. Logan's narrative is about redemption. Xavier was the last part of Logan's humanity and that is why he was committed to protecting him. But then when he finds our about his daughter, Logan sees his younger self in him, which is why he rejects her at first. But then when X-24 turns up Logan gets to face his younger,more volatile self, and protects X-23 with the hope that she will grow up with the values that he and Xavier tried to install in her. And the ending wasn't without hope. The fact that these new mutants are now released, they can reproduce and regrow the mutant population. And they killed off the leader of the corporation that was responsible for the experimentation, so now the young mutants have a chance to win the war for them.

lol. you recognized hugh jackman foot. im impressed.

thumb's up on your review grace. I got lots of questions when I watched the movie. and you were able to answer them. thanks

she says she loves the comics but forgets team alpha flight and that wolverine was Canadian but instead blabbs about immigration lol

What are you talking about? The kids made it to Canada. It was a win and a great way to kill off wolverine.

Amazing review as usual. Loved this review!

Great review grace, love that your such a big fan comics like a lot of us. Keep up your amazing work;)

"his healings slowed down due to adamantium poisoning, which they also never explain you have to figure it out" Apart from when Logan is explaing that the adamantium is killing him, that was quite a big clue for me.

I was thinking when Logan Killed Xavier that it had to be a dream. Then after it kept going I was like WTF? He actually killed him.

Oh man Grace you made me cry twice now. 🙈 But i love your reviews and it's always awesomely in depth.

Grace, I just saw Logan Friday, and really enjoyed it. You mentioned that they didn't explain why he wasn't healing, but I remember him mentioning to x23 that he thought the adamantium might be killing him. Love your reviews!

Grace the Xmen didn't drop the ball, we're assuming that Professor X had a seizure and probably killed a lot of them. Thats not dropping the ball, thats just life getting as rough as it can get

From what I understand: Xavier's power can shut down the part of the brain regulating involuntary functions: lung, heart, ext. : which is what causes the real issue. Only those with powers like Wolverine could survive as regeneration would automatically counteract the effects of suffocation and so on. In addition, if Xavier stopped someone moving fast enough or took over control of voluntary functions while people are in precarious situations...

I had to really hold back the tears when professor Xavier died...the relationship between him and Logan reminded me of my dad whose also going through basically the same stuff

I believe that Logan died to save the future of mutant kind.

Don't cry Grace😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

If they had an End Credit scene it would be amazing to have Deadpool pissing on Wolverines grave.

I liked the shot of Logan and X24 walking past eachother on the stairs. Logan looked completely intimidated and X24 looked like a fucking beast.

X-23 seemed pretty emotional to me when Logan was dying/died. By the way, her calling him daddy through her tears as he's fading out was heart wrenching. And Logan and the kids were a team! They were all fighting together to defeat the villains.

What I can't get around, is that the one of the reasons for Days of Future Past was to "right the wrongs" of the original films, to please the fandom and "save" the characters which died... shoot forward a year or two... and they're all potentially dead again anyway? What was the point.. no more chance for Jean to shine again etc. But then I realised, it's very subtle but kind of poetic, Beast (in DOFP) mentioned a theory in time travel about the ripples in a river... how you can create ripples in a body of water, but the course always corrects itself. We're led to believe that "enough ripples, you can change the tide entirely" at the end of DOFP... but has Logan showed us that actually... nope. The sentinels didn't kill all mutant kind, but [spoiler] then potentially did? Just thought it would be interesting to point out! The X-Men franchise for me has always been my favourite "superhero" series!

I didn't mind the kids killing their 'torturers' and 'enjoying it' simply because in the moment they deserved it. And tbh just seeing children makes me feel sympathetic and I was satisfied with the ending to an extent because their was hope for the mutant future 😜

Its amazing how Hank in Days of Future Past and Yukio forshadowed how everything would end. This movie is so deep and amazing.

Your tears made me tear, Grace. Dammit!! xD also review! Almost brought me close to tears at the end.

I don't understand where you think they lost. Nobody won, nobody lost. Logan sacrifices himself in order for them to cross the border. I agree the ending isn't a happy one, with Logan as well as not really knowing who exactly is waiting beyond the border. But I didn't see that as a loss. Just not a happy ending. Nobody wants to lose Logan but I though it was a poignant way for him to go, however brutal it was. And it was brutal, you don't leave this movie with a happy feeling.

Logan keeps Xavier from dying, that's why he is giving him meds, Xavier said it before he died.

Another subtle scene that I really liked was near the beginning when Logan is back at his compound and he has to manually extend the one claw from between his fingers because it didn't extend fully - so he pulls it out and there's just all this blood dripping down his hands and then there's a cut to him bandaging his hands after. It just goes to show how much older and weaker he's gotten and how the mutant healing factor ain't what it used to be for him. So beautiful!

Grace, I was crying with you. Thank you for all your hard work.

Wait what haha? So because Force awakens, a movie that came out a year and a half ago and this one have bittersweet endings, big coorperations and evil always win??????

This is a tragic movie and it end in a sad note. It doesn't have that normal happy ending after a tragic events. that is why at the end it feels like it sucked the life out of you.

I really liked that X-23 went to Canada in the end. Since Logan is Canadian originally, it really felt like X-23, as a representation of his legacy, was returning home.

27:45 But Grace, you were the only one who thought that when you left the theater hahahaha

When I saw X-24 kill Charles I was going freaking crazy... I was so mad at Logan, until they cut to the show of Logan outside, completely oblivious to everything going on, but when that happened, I knew shit was about to go down... so emotional too...

I'm not sure why a downbeat ending constitutes a third act failing - I thought it was a logical, satisfying conclusion to this most atypical superhero movie, one that plays out like a revisionist superhero movie, like a 70's western, and if you don't think the hero dies at the end of westerns, I give you McCabe & Mrs Miller, or Ulzana's Raid. In fact, the great strength of Logan is its relationship with the other X-Men movies (or superhero movies in general) which is that of the revisionist western with the traditional western - The Wild Bunch as opposed to Rawhide.

Awww, you got all teary eyed. It was tough to see both Professor X and Logan die but it was the end of an 18 year and what 8... 9 film run. It's unfortunate but, the end comes for us all, eventually, and this was the part of the story where their end was told. Looking at it that way, it would seem weird if all parts of their story was told except the end. So I'm happy we got to see this bit, because it is so often not told.

Grace! Your review was awesome and touching. One of your best!

Grace I could watch your reviews all day

Damn, Grace, let the movie come out first lol. Have pity on us lowly consumers. I had you on autoplay and almost threw my phone out the window trying to stop this video haha. Love your work though, keep fighting the good fight.

Wolverine died for nothing? We're you even paying attention? It's profound on so many levels; Logan found a reason to fight (His daughter and the kids) and finally became the man Charles wanted him to be.

Great review. And Grace, I am always amazed how natural, knowledgeable and personal you are. You are a true entertainer. Thank you.

I really enjoyed the creative decision to give Pierce such a grim and horrifying death at the end from the hands of the children. It really helped signify one of the major themes of the show; that violence has a dark and cruel price even if done for the "right" choices. Choosing to portray the darker side of the children's moralities added complexity to the film's themes which only heightened it for me luckily.

To the point that this movie is demoralizing I have to say that it is not really. I mean the set up x-23 and the other kids and I rather have Logan and Xavier die like this then some bullshit happy ending. I mean it made me sad, but it is the right choice regardless. Also he killed the dudes from the cooperation so he actually kinda stopped them. And If you want to take it as a comment on companies having too much power it is more a warning to do something about it now before its too late.

To touch on a couple of point I (slightly) disagree on/would like to add to: Xavier's death is made all the more poignant in that he has a moment of enlightenment. He acknowledges how great it was to have a night in a home and how he didn't deserve it. He remembers what happened in Westchester and realizes why Logan refused to tell him and why he was always kept drugged: he experienced the pain for a minute that Logan has carried for a lifetime and got it. Logan's death is fitting in that he died in the same way. Moments before breathing for the last time, he came to realize what it is to have a 'home' per day and experience life in saving the daughter he now had. For the first time in his life, he had a true reason to live, to fight, because Laura, unlike Gene Gray, was actually his biologically and he could, for the first time, feel the kind of incomparable love one feels for their children and the sacrifices one is willing to make for them. It is very fitting that both characters die finally understanding the other and 'getting' them after a lifetime of trying to be on the same page. This was a fitting and truly appropriate way of sending both into the sunset, better than letting them live. Lastly, on the kids not being personable. I agree. I also feel that this movie makes a commentary on traditionalism vs realism. The nurses are with these kids from birth and treat them as children, even though they are being trained to be weapons. They have a traditionalist view of them, blinding themselves from the reality: they are being brought up protected from outside influence and without emotion. That is what you see at the end of the movie. While I do agree that they aren't very likable, this is a byproduct of how they were created and brought up. The facility had no intentions of creating children, but rather weapons, highlighted in the exchange where the head 'doctor' says to Gabriela that she should see them as objects instead of humans. This is the reason they seem so stone-faced. At the end of the movie Laura begins to learn emotion when she acknowledges Logan as her father and holds him, almost nurturing him, as he dies. In this way, she has been given purpose in life and will, like Logan before her, lead the X-Men of the future. She will avenge her father, and will use her first real sense of emotion as a driving force towards the future, because it is an emotionally powerful moment in her life. The kids, being exposed to the outside world for the first time, will slowly learn about life, begin to feel emotions and finally go through the normal growth process and become more humanized. I believe that if this storyline carries forward, we will see more developed individuals who are still working through the tortures of their past but willing to avenge them and fight to put it behind them.

Probably the most passionate, emotional, and deep analysis of Logan on RU-vid.

well the timeline is split so maybe this is the side where Trask killed the mutants in Stewart timeline but won. now it's Stewart and X-Men live happily long lives until a terrible unforeseen mistake. that's where I think this takes place. the younger timeline is still par for cinematic course.

I loved the kids in this, I was rooting for them the whole time and Logan sacrificing himself to save the next generation of xmen was great!

That was wonderful Grace. Thank you for taking the time to make this for us.

Lol she misinterpreted the cross turning to x thing

Grace, yes. We fight the fights that need fighting. If we only fight the fights we can win, then what's the point, right? The film really did a interesting job tackling some pretty complex themes.

I just wished they have written X-24 as Daken, and not just clone. That would have been brilliant!

The scene when Logan is burying Xavier, and he breaks in tears saying something like "at least is near water" or "at least there's water".... was heart breaking!

Quick question: 'Logan' is supposedly set years after the happy ending showed in 'Days of Future Past'. However, by Wolverine and Professor X referencing the Statue of Liberty incident (X-1) and Wolverine having the Japanese sword from 'The Wolverine', does that mean events from the original trilogy did happen?? Thoughts??