My wife and I saw this this afternoon. Both loved it. It may challenge the top of my list for favorite Marvel movie despite the violence and language (which for the most part I didn't think were integral to the story-the fight scenes would have been just as powerful and effective with more left to the imagination in terms of blood and body parts, but no so bad as to be gratuitous, they left the gratuitousness for the brief nudity scene in the limousine in the film). Well written, well acted, and a powerful character driven story. I didn't mind the level of violence and language, but for me they were more of a distraction from the story than an attraction drawing me to the film (but then I am of the old school Hitchcock show them less and affect them more school of thought when it comes to these types of elements in film-the audience's imagination is usually more powerful and awful than anything you can show on screen). For example, the most horrifying and most effective scene for me in all the fight scenes was We didn't see any blood or flying body parts, but the cut scenes from the horror in his eyes to the anger/glee in the kids faces drove that scene home making it more powerful and effective than all the stabby stabby slicey dicey blood and body parts fight scenes.

Sometimes there is little things that just throw you for a loop and I was doing fine until , that's when all the emotions of the film just came crashing down on me. My wife, however, was tearing up through most of the film (of the two of us, she's the bigger X-Men fan).

-M

Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a lot of buzz about it... but all the critics I've read were very positive, so there's that.

Mine was Raiders of the lost ark... until that pesky Rogue one.

Just watched it - first X-Men film that's really good all the way through. All the others had major weaknesses, but this one was a stormer, with some cracking performances. I agree that it's miles better than the Nolan Batflicks, but then I'm not a fan of those, so it's not much of a compliment from me - right up there with the best of the Marvel flicks, and might well be the new standard to which the rest aspire.

Holy sh**


Saw this today, and it blew me away. It hit me particularly hard as I feel many parallels with Logan right now -- that adamantium bullet in the pocket but a child who needs you -- but the film is just an all out masterpiece. I'm a die hard Next Gen fan and Shakespeare fan, so I've seen all of Patrick Stewart's finest acting moments, but this trumped them all, and Jackman and the girl were equally stunning. Fox has never been comfortable with the superhero genre; I find myself discussing that a lot in my X-Men film review thread. With Deadpool, they succeeded by making the genre overtly silly and tongue and cheek. Here they run in the opposite direction entirely. This is a drama, only loosely bearing a resemblance to any kind of licensed superhero property. Honestly, Jackman's Wolverine here reminded me more of Bill Bixby's Incredible Hulk than anything he'd done with Logan previously, and that was a television series that was only superhero-related in the absolute loosest of ways.

I cried A LOT during that film. Not just a tear or two; hard core crying, and I still choke up when thinking about certain parts again.


Minor details with the film:

- The X-23 kids are exactly as dangerous or as helpless as the script needs them to be at any given point. In the beginning, Laura can take down an entire squad of soldiers that are armed to the teeth. By the final act, the entire X-23 gang is running helplessly from a gang of abductors that has only a few more people than them and doesn't appear nearly as well armed.

- How did the other kids get to Eden? No adults present other than Logan.