Logan

Storyline

Logan, directed with somber, unsparing brilliance by James Mangold, is an Oscar-nominated neo-Western masterpiece and one of the most mature, critically revered comic-book adaptations ever crafted. Set in a bleak, sun-bleached 2029 where mutantkind has been driven to near extinction and no new mutants have been born in over twenty-five years, an aging, weary Logan (Wolverine) works as a hired limousine driver along the Mexican border under his birth name, James Howlett. His adamantium skeleton is slowly poisoning his biological system, degrading his legendary regenerative healing factor and leaving him wracked by chronic pain and alcoholism. Hiding out in an abandoned smelting plant, Logan cares for an ailing, nonagenarian Charles Xavier (Professor X), whose deteriorating telepathic brain suffers violent, fatal seizures that threaten anyone within miles. Logan’s desperate, reclusive dream of purchasing a boat to live out their twilight days at sea is shattered when a desperate nurse begs him to smuggle Laura—an eleven-year-old mute girl possessing adamantium claws and vicious feral reflexes engineered from Logan's own genetic code—to a rumored mutant sanctuary in North Dakota called Eden. Relentlessly pursued by Donald Pierce and his cybernetically enhanced paramilitary Reavers, Logan is forced on a cross-country odyssey of brutal violence and profound emotional awakening. Stripped of comic-book grandeur and grounded by Hugh Jackman’s career-defining farewell performance, Logan is a poetic, heartbreaking meditation on mortality, trauma, family, and redemption.