BEST OF THE DECADE – 2010’S: CORY, PART 11: #3 –Logan

3) Logan – 2017

‘Logan‘ is a wistfully sobering, white-knuckle finalization to Hugh Jackman’s 17-year role as the feral soldier-of-fortune James Howlett which will undoubtedly become his signature role. In a breaking-the- 4th-wall approach with Stan Lee’s comic-book catalog, Wolverine critiques the printed word of his X-Men escapades and James Mangold presents a less deified, more graphic version of those adamantium yarns.

If the wanton, overrated ‘Deadpool’ can be genuflected for anything, it debouched the flood gates for Fox studios to be daringly audacious with this film’s R-rating. For instance, the opening car jacking scene is Wolverine (Jackman) in unleashed, splattery berserker mode with slashings to craniums, lower jawlines, forearms and legs galore. It’s a veritable abbatoir with Wolverine’s claws as the meat grinder. Certainly, not the bloodless gashes from the Bryan Singer era.