Logan review

Logan marks the last Hugh Jackman film as the popular X-Men character Wolverine. The film has a different tone to other X- Men movies and its film certificate. Due to the success of Deadpool, Logan was rated a 15 and boy did they stick to that. The film has more violence which suits the role of Wolverine very well. Also he swears quite a bit like his comic counterpart. The story is set 6 years after the events of days of future past were we see that Logan is one of the only mutants left in existence, he stumbles across a girl who is just like what he used to be so he, Professor X and the girl must find a save haven. once they do they see other mutants and take them to safety so the mutant generation can live on.

The cast like any X- Men movie is well built. Some performances to spot are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Stephen Merchant unrecognisable performance as Caliban. Newcomer Dafne Keen did a good job at playing X-23 or the New Wolverine as she is now in the comics. Director James Mangold has down a good job on his last two Wolverine films and hope to see him in future X- Men films. But Logan marks the end of the current X-Men franchise so I doubt I'll see him do another film like that again.

There isn't really any negatives I can say to this movie as it is not a usual X-Men type film, it is more of a drama just with comic characters. I guess one thing could be Wolverine's clone X-24 (spoilers) as they sought of went a bit too far with that idea. That I guess it the only negative I can come up. But all that aside I would give Logan a 10/10 as it is one of the best Wolverine/X- Men movies I have seen in quite a while.

Hidden Figures Review

Now we all know about the Oscars and it's recent bluff that has been over the news but usually I never see a film that is Oscar nominated before. Here is one of the films were I actually have seen and got nominated. Hidden Figures is about 3 Black women working at NASA in the early 60's which played a crucial part in the unmanned space rocket tests before the 1969 moon launch. The three main characters are called Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) who was a crucial part of the success of the rocket tests as she figured out all the coordinates needed, Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer) a woman who tried her best to become the IT supervisor who never got the job never mind her attempts but she helped in working the IBM machine and eventually becoming the supervisor and Marry Jackson (Janelle Monáe)  a woman who become the first black person to graduate at Hampton University to become an engineer.

The Characters are well developed and you can understand each character no matter of the screen time they share to the other characters. The soundtrack as well is good with numerous songs by Pharrell Williams and of course composed by Hans Zimmer who is well known for numerous films. There are not many negatives I can say to this film as it is based on true events found from a book a year prior to the films making. However I personally did not think it was Oscar worthy. I mean don't take this the wrong way it is a good film but I have seen a few films like these and I found them all the same unless there is something special to them. To me this film didn't have anything special to it apart from the characters would standout to most of the scenes in the film. Feel free to comment on this.

Overall I thought the film was good and I enjoyed it. There are a few scenes that might make you tear up and most of them will get you thinking on what society was like in those times. Anyway I would give Hidden Figures a 8.5/10