Logan

Logan is a 2017 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine,
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 and final Wolverine solo film following X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013), as well serving as a reboot to the franchise and being set in its own universe. The film takes inspiration from "Old Man Logan" by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, which follows an aged Wolverine undertaking a final adventure in a dystopian future.

The film is directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Frank and Michael Green, from a story by Mangold.[12] 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. It received praise from critics and audiences, becoming the best-reviewed film in the X-Men film series and being considered by many as one of the best superhero films of all time, and has grossed $607 million worldwide against its $97 million budget, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2017.

Plot

In the year 2029, mutants are on the brink of extinction, with no new mutants having been born in 25 years. An aging and weary Logan, formerly known as Wolverine, is working as a chauffeur in Texas. His rapid healing factor has faltered and, as a result, his body has aged greatly and his adamantium skeleton is gradually poisoning him from the inside out. Logan lives with mutant tracker Caliban and they care for Professor Charles Xavier, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease which causes him to lose control of his immensely powerful telepathic abilities. One day, Logan is approached by Gabriela Lopez, a nurse for biotech corporation Alkali/Transigen, who wants him to escort her and an eleven-year-old girl named Laura to a place in North Dakota called "Eden".

Logan reluctantly accepts the offer, then later Gabriela is murdered and Logan, Xavier, and Laura narrowly escape from her killer-- Transigen's cybernetically-enhanced Chief of Security Donald Pierce aided by his Reavers-- but Caliban is captured and forced to use his mutant tracking powers to find them. Logan and Xavier learn that Laura is one of several mutant children Transigen was breeding with DNA from the "X-23" project headed by Dr. Zander Rice, and that upon completion of the "X-24" project, Rice deemed the children obsolete and ordered them euthanized. Gabriela helped several children escape from the compound before smuggling Laura, who was artificially created from Logan's DNA, across the Mexican border.

The Reavers catch up with them in Oklahoma City, but Xavier suffers a seizure and telepathically freezes everyone in their hotel, allowing Logan to kill the attackers and the trio escape. On the road, they help farmer Will Munson and his family after a traffic incident, who then invite them over for dinner, and they accept under the guise of being a generational family. When a nearby pipe springs a leak, Logan and Will leave the house to fix it. While Logan is gone, Xavier recalls a telepathic seizure he had in Westchester, which claimed the lives of several X-Men and injured numerous civilians. He expresses his guilt to a person he thinks is Logan but is actually X-24, a feral clone of Logan with severely limited healing factor who fatally stabs Xavier, then murders Will's family and abducts Laura to deliver to Rice and the Reavers. Caliban sacrifices himself by setting off a pair of grenades to destroy the van in which he is being held captive, though he fails to kill Rice and Pierce. Logan and Will engage and incapacitate X-24, Will is injured and points his shotgun at Logan; blaming him for the death of his family he pulls the trigger, but it is empty and he dies from his wounds. Logan retrieves Laura and escapes with Xavier's body.

After burying Xavier, Logan and Laura make their way to Eden, a safe haven run by Rictor and the other Transigen test subjects that managed to escape. Logan learns that the children plan to journey across the Canadian border and decides to leave, but when the children are intercepted by the Reavers, Logan uses a serum that temporarily restores his healing factor to intervene. Rice confronts Logan--who is revealed to have killed Rice's father while escaping from the Weapon X program-- and reveals that the destruction of mutantkind was due to a genetic dampener forged by his company who then laced it within commercial food and drink products. Horrified and outraged, Logan shoots Rice dead before Pierce releases a regenerated X-24, who engages Logan. The children wipe out the remaining Reavers before killing Pierce with their powers.

Logan and Laura fight X-24, with Rictor helping. X-24 overpowers them and impales Logan on some tree branches, but before he can finish him off, the clone is killed by Laura with an adamantium bullet. Mortally wounded, Logan tells Laura not to be the weapon she was made to be before dying in her arms. Laura and the other children bury him then make their way for the border, but before joining her friends, Laura repositions the two branches forming a cross at the head of the grave into an X in honor of the last of the X-Men.