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Also discussed this episode: Doctor Strange (2016), Arrival (2016), Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), The LEGO Batman Movie (2017), Lion (2016), Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Tickled (2016), Mr. Right (2016), I Am a Ghost (2012), Double Indemnity (1944), The Assignment (2017)
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Also discussed this episode: Doctor Strange (2016), Arrival (2016), Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), The LEGO Batman Movie (2017), Lion (2016), Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Tickled (2016), Mr. Right (2016), I Am a Ghost (2012), Double Indemnity (1944), The Assignment (2017)
Ah, Logan... a perfectly average 90-minute movie inexplicably stretched into an overlong and baggy 137 minutes. The year before, a similarly themed movie called Blood Father was released; it's also a neo-Western in which a washed-up fighter must confront the demons of his past and rescue his daughter from a vicious gang. Unlike Logan, it's not deeply hypocritical: it doesn't have its protagonist ponderously mutter "there's no living with a killing," only to kill baddies throughout the movie without hesitation or regret. (I can only conclude that Logan won an adapted screenplay Oscar, despite being baggy, uninspired, and full of clichés, as a backhanded rebuke of superhero movies generally.) Directed by Jean-François Richet, helmer of the underrated 2005 Assault on Precinct 13 remake, Blood Father runs a mere 88 minutes, and also features something very like a Berserker Rage from its protagonist.
ReplyDeleteNow, Blood Father stars Mel Gibson, so if anyone shuns it for that reason, I understand. But IMHO, it's the clear superior film of the two.