Really good film. Tough, downbeat. You don't need huge special effects and huge casts to do a super hero movie just a lot of heart, and intelligence and good actors.
There's plenty of action - mostly fights with claws. The R rating means you get lots of claws ripping off people's head and blood and guts and brutal slogging it down.
It helps having genuine stakes - Wolverine is allowed to die; ditto Xavier.
A fine array of villains - Boyd Holbrook is a great arrogant prick, Richard E. Grant is very good as the doctor who thinks he's reasonable torturing and killing these kids, and Hugh Jackman gets to play his own nemesis. (Not to be a smarty but I always felt Tom Cruise should've done this in Mission Impossible 2).
The sympathetic support cast is good too - Stephen Merchant, the girl (reminiscent of the feral kid in Mad Max 2).
A lot of it does feel familiar - escaping to Canada, the girl, the feral kids who are out of Village of the Damned, the doco footage of the kids being too well shot. But so many great touches, like Wolverine being a limo driver (I never realised how humiliating that job is), all the fights, and that remarkable sequence where Wolverine comes across a nice family of blacks having trouble with nasty landlords and you think it's just pat the dog... but they're all wiped out
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