Logan

This sci-fi thriller was released on March 3, 2017. This Oscars-nominated movie was directed by James Mangold and the screenplay was written by James Mangold himself along with Michael Green, Scott Frank, and David James Kelly.

The cast includes the following actors:

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine(Logan)

Dafne Keen as Laura

Boyd Holbrook as Donald Pierce

Patrick Stewart as Professor X

Stephen Merchant as Caliban

Richard E. Grant as Dr. Zander Rice

Vincenzo Lucatorto as Mutant child 3

Quincy Fouse as Nate Munson

Eriq La Salle as Will Munson

 

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie shows the time period of 2029 where a man named Wolverine better known as Logan has become 200 years old. It is shown that since he has become very old he has become very weak and has lost his powers to self heal the wound. He works as a taxi driver in Texas. For the past twenty years, no mutant child has taken birth. All the mutants like Logan were killed and only Logan is left now. And now Logan too is tired because he has been fighting various missions since past years.

 

Logan has now become a heavy drunkard. He has even put his name his original birth name that is James Howlet. One day when he takes his passengers to the graveyard, a nurse approaches him and tells him that she wants help from him. Logan doesn’t pay any attention to her and leaves the place. When he gets back to his taxi, he finds a man in the taxi. He tells Logan that the nurse had something that he wants and even adds that if he finds her again he should call him. Saying this, he gives him a card where it is written ‘Alkali Transigen’. This is the same organization that does experiments on the mutants. And this organization was run by Striker. Logan was known as experiment no. X there. They injected a metal in his body and due to this his hands and his body became as strong as steel.

 

Logan now goes to the place where he lives. With him live two other mutants. One mutant’s name is Caliban. Caliban has the ability to detect where the next mutant is. Another mutant’s name is Charles Xaviers and he is very old. He is mentally unstable and they have to continuously inject medicines into his body to make him stable. One day, Logan gets late to give him the injection, and due to this, the old mutant shakes everything up and even lifts Logan in the air. And after that Logan puts an injection into his body and he calms down.

 

Next day Logan goes to the location to pick his passenger and that day too he meets the same nurse. With the nurse, there is a young little girl named Laura. The nurse knows that Logan is a mutant and she wants him to help Laura reach a place safely. She even says that she will pay 50000 dollars for that work. Since Logan was running out of money, he had to accept that. He asks her who Laura is and she replies that she is her daughter and her husband wants to take her away and that’s why she wants Logan to help them reach to North Dakota. Logan accepts that and says that he will come to pick her up tomorrow. The nurse gives him 20000 dollars as an advance.

 

Next day when Logan reaches there, he finds out that the nurse has died, someone has murdered her. She had her cell phone in her hand where she has replied to someone “On my way”. Logan doesn’t want to get into any trouble so he leaves the place. On his way he finds the same man who had told him to call him if he finds the nurse. He asks him why he didn’t do so and even asks him where Laura is. Logan tells him that he knows nothing. The man, named Donald tells his men to take a look in his home. And then Laura kills the men who went in to look for her. The people start firing toward Laura but she fights awesomely. She has metallic claws as well as feet and hence she rips everyone off. Then Logan, Laura, and Charles Xavier get into the car and run away. Caliban is under Donald’s control. He asks Caliban to detect the mutants but Caliban refuses that. But then he tortures him so bad that he has to do that anyway.

 

On the way, Logan watches the video left by the nurse. She tells that the organization used to inject the mutant into the bodies of women and they used to get pregnant and eventually the mutant babies would take birth. They trained these mutant babies but they were not that competent. So they performed an experiment called X-24 and it was successful and that’s why they decide to kill all those mutant children. The nurse used to work there and got to know everything and hence she helped the kids to run away from there. Knowing all this Logan feels that he should help Laura. Looking at the medical reports of Laura, Logan gets to know that they have the same DNA and hence Laura basically is Logan’s daughter.

 

He also finds a comic of X-men in her bag where it is written the same coordinate as told by the nurse to take Laura. So he understands that it is not a safe place but only a fictional place. Now Logan goes to his hotel back where Laura and Charles were. Everything starts vibrating and people get paused at the same place where they are. He also sees Donald’s men with guns in their hands. Since the men have paused, so Logan kills each of them and successfully gives injection to Charles because it was him who caused the vibration. Then they run away from that place because Donald was there.

 

On their way, they help a family to put their cattle on place and that’s why they give them place to stay that night. Logan goes to the farm to help the family with the pump and at the same time the successful mutant X 24 comes and kills everyone in the house, even Charles and takes Laura. But when he was leaving Logan gets there and fights with him. X24 also has the similar DNA and claws like Logan but he is way too powerful. Logan starts losing. This scene is seen by Caliban who is in a vehicle far away so he blasts the grenades in the vehicle that takes his owns life too. X24 gets distracted and Logan starts attacking him. But x24 keeps winning and now he is on the verge of killing Logan. And at that time appears the owner of the same house Will and he hits X24 with a car and he continuously fires at him. Will even fires at Logan because Logan was also the reason for his family’s death. But the bullets had finished so Logan is saved. But will dies because he too is injured. Logan takes Laura and the dead body of Charles and buries him. He grieves at Charles’s death because Charles was the one who did a lot to help the mutant children.

 

Logan’s car doesn’t start and he gets frustrated and starts hitting the car. Since Logan had become very weak hence he gets unconscious and Laura takes him to the hospital. He gets well and the get into the car. Laura tells him that she has to reach North Dakota. Logan gets surprised because it was the first time Laura opened her mouth. Logan tries to convince her that there is no such place in real but it is something mentioned only in comics. But Laura gets stubborn and he has to take her there anyway. But Logan had become so weak that he gets unconscious while driving and hence Laura drives the car. They reach North Dakota. Logan faints there too.  All the other mutant children had already reached there. They help Logan to come up the cliff. They inject Logan with a serum that helps Logan to get well.

 

Next day, children tell that they need to get to Canada because it is safe for them there. Logan has to get back now. The following day when Logan gets up, the children had already gone. But Logan also sees that Donald and his team have reached near.  So Logan goes to save the children. He injects himself with the serum to get power and due to this, he fights so well with the Transigen group that he kills them. But the serum stops working soon and he gets weak. Then there arrives the mastermind, Dr. Zander. Logan had killed Dr. Zander’s father in the past to run from the lab. Logan somehow shoots Dr. Zander and attacks Donald too. But there comes X 24 and they start heavily fighting. The mutant children also start attacking Donald and his team and kill them. On the other hand, x 24 has nearly killed Logan. So Laura shoots x24 with the Adamantium bullet and kills him. Logan is very injured and is dying. Logan tells Laura to run away and save herself and never be like others. For the first time, Laura calls Logan ‘Dad’. Logan passes away and they bury him nearby and put a cross sign over there. Laura turns the sign and makes it as ‘X ’ because Logan was experiment no. X. The mutant children are safe and the story ends here.