DVD review: Logan

DVD reviewed by Samantha Keogh

Review made possible by Times New Media

It’s 2029.

Time has passed since the glory days of X-Men.

Charles Xavier is in his 90s and the most powerful brain in the world is wracked by seizures which threaten to kill everyone around him if not controlled.

A slightly befuddled Xavier is managed by drugs which he must take – despite all his objections.

Apart from necessary supply runs, Wolverine who has shunned society has landed the unenviable task of caring for him, which he does in a disused factory on the border with Mexico.

That is until a Mexican nurse offers him money to help a young girl, Laura escapes to a sanctuary in North Dakota.

Logan is not interested until he later finds the nurse has been killed and the girl has disappeared.

Laura is on the run, having escaped from a lab experiment designed to manufacture mutants from stolen DNA and turn them into conscienceless soldiers.

There are others of her kind whom she wants to join as they try desperately to reach safety across the Canadian border.

Enter Laura chased by several truckloads of paramilitaries trying to kill her and the game is on.

Logan bundles Laura and Xavier into a car and the three make a desperate run for the meeting place, pursued by an ever-diminishing number of heavies who underestimate the damage that a metal Talon can do when it penetrates a head.

Here is a fast-paced action movie which is an offshoot of, but not a true sequel to the “X-Men” series but retains vestigial glimpses of mutants doing mutant things.

Richard E Grant is credible as the slightly deranged doctor responsible for the mutant experiments and who is determined to destroy all his creations whom he regards as proof of his failure.