Audiences looking for wham bang action may find Logan a little downbeat but there’s more heart here than you’ll find in almost any other superhero movie.
Already being hailed as the best Wolverine film yet – and even the best X-Men film by some – Logan is also notably being described as a superhero film in name only, having much more stylistically in common the western, even namechecking the 1953 classic Shane.
It is more like a survivalist thriller than a superhero film, and signals its wintry quality with the title itself.
Impressive and bold, it’s a superhero movie that feels nothing like one, though whether that’s a good thing or not is debatable.