00:00Suffering, regret, putrefaction, this is what sums up this film and this is what gives it its identity.
00:06James Mangold wanted to return to this character, to make something that really spoke to him.
00:11Not picking up a current project like his previous mutant film.
00:15In The Wolverine, Logan must rediscover himself, put aside his feelings and resurrect the hero who once slept within him.
00:21But in Logan, it's no longer about heroism, simply about survival.
00:25Logan is the last vestige of a bygone era, a fallen hero.
00:29But above all, a human being consumed by a life far too long for the heart and mind of a single man who has known too much suffering.
00:36Mangold enjoys making this character suffer.
00:38He tries it in The Wolverine, makes him vulnerable but still gives him that aura.
00:43Here the suffering is much more brutal.
00:45We see it on the flesh of man but especially on his face, the greatest suffering of all, regret.
00:51The exploits of the X-Men are now just children's fables told through colorful and hopeful drawings.
00:56The reality is quite different.
00:58Charles was the creator and executioner of this group that brought Logan back to life long ago.
01:03Today the latter tries to protect Charles but forgets himself until he meets X-23.
01:08A young mutant with abilities he knows well and whom he will have to lead towards an ideal that he refuses to accept.
01:14A refuge that has its source in one of the X-Men comics but which old Logan refutes.
01:18As if his idyllic past had become nothing but an illusion.
01:21It's the last hurrah for Wolverine, but especially for Hugh Jackman, who gives his all one last time and who has had the merit of perfectly capturing his character for 20 years.
01:31James Mangold revisits the X-Men universe in this twilight western where the completely sumptuous artistic direction blends perfectly with this solitary and broken character who will, for the last time, be what he has always refused to admit to himself: a hero.
01:45The only dark point in the film could be this double of Wolverine where I understand the metaphor of the internal struggle but where I regret a certain lack of subtlety.
01:53The film's violence may have served as a promotional pretext, but it is never gratuitous.
01:58It translates a world where the hero's leather gives way to blood and dust.
02:02A violence that we see on Logan's face as the story progresses.
02:06He is dying inside, his mutation is failing him, the end is inevitable and when it comes it is heartbreaking.
02:13Here it is, the true end of the X-Men.
02:16From where his mother I understand it, but incredibly poetic, very human and above all authentic.
02:22The monologue of the man from the lost valley resonates perfectly and gives pride of place to a character and a saga which in its controversy and sometimes bad taste,
02:30something great and profound will emerge from it, something cinema in short.
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