11-24-2019, 12:50 PM
Best installment of the X-men franchise so far.
I've been at odds with the cinematic X-men. It's always had such a stellar cast but it's been too much to track, too many characters, too much backstory that I don't know or care about, mutant freaks with powers that I can't really wrap my mind around, even Deadpool didn't quite work for me. Jackman as Wolverine never worked - I actually read a little Wolverine so I had my own preconceived notions on the character and the movies felt like a sanitization. It lost the grittiness that I liked in the comic. Until this. It almost redeems the X-men franchise for me. I liked the ultravi which felt a lot more in line with what I recall of Wolverine, and the perverse father-daughter theme (which I'm always a sucker for) plus the finality of it all. I suspect Dafne Keen will be a rising ingenue to watch.
I've been at odds with the cinematic X-men. It's always had such a stellar cast but it's been too much to track, too many characters, too much backstory that I don't know or care about, mutant freaks with powers that I can't really wrap my mind around, even Deadpool didn't quite work for me. Jackman as Wolverine never worked - I actually read a little Wolverine so I had my own preconceived notions on the character and the movies felt like a sanitization. It lost the grittiness that I liked in the comic. Until this. It almost redeems the X-men franchise for me. I liked the ultravi which felt a lot more in line with what I recall of Wolverine, and the perverse father-daughter theme (which I'm always a sucker for) plus the finality of it all. I suspect Dafne Keen will be a rising ingenue to watch.
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