“Redemptive, but Brutal, Fable”
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What You Need To Know:
LOGAN features a relentless, action packed story with multiple Christian references. Ultimately, the movie is about Logan’s redemption from a lonely life filled with rage and violence. Sadly, however, the movie contains lots of brutal violence, abundant obscenities and heaps of despair. LOGAN may present a riveting, redemptive story, but it’s too excessive.
Content:
Lots of brutal fighting includes bad guys shoot guns and use fists while an aging man and a young girl with healing powers stab them viciously with their mutant claws covered in a special hardened steel (including slitting their throats, stabbing them in the head and cutting off a couple heads), many martial arts moves and punches and kicks and acrobatics, half of man’s head is blown off by a gun, bad guy viciously shoots a family to death, characters are impaled, some explosions, a large vehicle is flipped onto a couple bad guys to kill them, young girl tosses a bad guy’s severed head at another bad guy’s feet, mutant children use their powers to freeze or smother or toss around bad guys trying to capture them to turn them into super-soldiers, an incapacitated man is mortally and viciously stabbed, elderly man suffers two or three seizures that paralyze people around him and would eventually kill them unless he gets an injection (apparently he has some kind of brain disease or Alzheimer’s that distorts the mutant powers of his super-mind).
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During a montage of Logan chauffeuring people in his limo, one girl riding with a bunch of other girls wearing prom dresses briefly exposes her breasts to Logan as a lewd prank.
Some alcohol use and brief drunkenness; no smoking or illegal drugs, but an elderly character has to take some kind of prescription pills and regular injections to dampen deadly seizures comping from his powerful mutated brain; and, revenge murder and other heavy brutality.
More Detail:
Based on a new story that changes the history developed in the X-Men comic books, the movie opens with a drunken Logan, who’s become a limo driver, awakened by some gang thugs trying to steal his fancy limo’s tires. Logan, who’s pulled off to the side of the road to sleep, asks them to leave, but when they viciously attack him, he becomes enraged and kills them all.
It turns out Logan has hidden Professor Charles Xavier, the leader of the X-Men, in an abandoned oil complex in Mexico because Charles suffers from terrible seizures that can kill anyone around him if they go on too long. Logan, who’s aging and becoming sicker by the day, helped by a surviving albino mutant named Caliban, take care of Charles, feeding him prescription pills and sometimes injections to dampen his powerful mental abilities. However, Charles is in mental contact with a young mutant girl, Laura, who’s in some kind of terrible trouble. Apparently, the rest of the X-Men and many other mutants are dead.
Eventually, Logan and Charles meet up with Laura, who’s being tracked by an army of thugs sent by the large company that found ways to kill any mutant who refused to join them. The army is led by the company’s mad scientist leader who’s been genetically engineering mutant children like Laura, plying them with dangerous drugs and training them to develop an army of ruthless mutant soldiers. Laura and several other children escaped, but Laura got separated from the other children. Now, Laura needs Logan’s help to get to Canada, which has become an asylum for mutants like her.
As this plot develops, several questions arise. What’s wrong with Professor Xavier? Why does Logan appear finally to be aging and is himself becoming sicker and sicker? And, what happened to the X-Men?
LOGAN features a relentless, action packed story with multiple Christian references. For example, when Logan, Charles and Laura help a horse farmer and his family, they have dinner at the family’s house, and the father leads them all in the Lord’s Prayer. In addition, the movie is ultimately about Logan’s redemption from a lonely life filled with rage and violence. Logan’s redemption involves much sacrifice on his part to protect Laura.
Sadly, however, LOGAN, the movie, is set in a very dark world filled with brutal violence. It turns out that the mad scientist genetically created Laura from Logan’s DNA and experimented on her, so she has sharp steel claws hidden in her hands like Logan does and can regenerate herself quickly like the younger Logan used to do. Throughout the movie, Logan and Laura must fight and kill many of the soldiers that the mad scientist sends to kill Logan and capture Laura. Much of the killing involves Logan and Laura stabbing and slicing the soldiers to death with their claws.
The movie also contains constant foul language, including abundant “f” words. Also, Logan swears several times using Christ’s name and many times in front of the young girl. In addition, during a montage of Logan chauffeuring people in his limo, one girl riding with a bunch of other girls wearing prom dresses briefly exposes her breasts to Logan as a lewd prank.
All in all, LOGAN is an ultraviolent movie filled with excessive, gratuitous foul language.
