(CNN) After 17 years playing Wolverine, Hugh Jackman and the X-Men character that launched his career are finally on a first-name basis. "Logan," his latest solo adventure, is an especially grim affair -- a marginally successful movie that carves out a niche closer to Quentin Tarantino than "The Avengers." The dour nature of the proceedings thus blunts the fun, with the tradeoff being that it offers Jackman an especially full-bodied role in the bargain. There's also the occasionally uncomfortable matter of a little girl freely engaged in the bloodletting, and the sheer build-up of collateral damage as the movie's body count mounts. "Logan" is set in the future -- it's 2029 -- but it's only dystopian, really, for the genetically superior offshoot known as mutants.

Source: CNN March 02, 2017 17:15 UTC