The Logan Movie dropped its second Trailer a few days ago. Fans who loved the first trailer were looking forward to some more tidbits about a new, gritty chapter in the X Men series headlined by easily the most popular X Man in the entire franchise (Does Deadpool technically count as an X Man?…) Let’s take a look at some of the highlights of the trailer, and what it tells us about the movie itself:

1. X23 is no Damsel in Distress

The title of this trailer could have easily been ‘Cute Little Girl Goes on a Terrifying Rampage’. In the comics, X23 is a clone of Wolverine who is an even more dangerous fighter than her clone-daddy. In the movie, X23 doesn’t seem to be more than twelve years old, but that doesn’t stop her from ripping through a host of enemies, and even an occasional bystander.

                             AWW… WHO’S A ‘LIL PSYCHOPATH?

2. Old Man Logan Still Kicks Ass

While the bulk of the action in the trailer was handled by a girl who looks like she needs her parent’s permission to stay up past ten, Hugh Jackman showed us once again why he’s still the most interesting actor to watch play a superhero with sincerity rather than snark. There’s a lot more grey in Logan’s hair, and his blades don’t seem to work as well as they used to, but his eyes tell a tale of pain and loss, and he’s still strong enough to blast through a host of faceless mercenaries like an angry, roided up Ken Doll.

Because, Scruffy or Not, Hugh Jackman is a Beautiful Man

3. The Villain is… Considerate, I Guess?

              You Think Magneto Ever Tried That S**t When His Enemies Came At Him?

The MCU has often been accused of having uninteresting villains, and the pattern seems set to repeat itself with Logan. I guess there’s only so many times you can make Magneto go from Villain to Reluctant Ally to Frenemy to Villain again before the X Men movies start resembling a teen high school drama.

Anyway, the villain in Logan doesn’t get to do much, other than kick Logan across the face and unsuccessfully tell X 23 to stop her rampage (maybe he should’ve tried threatening her with a timeout). The good news is, the bad guys in the movie seem to have weapons fused to their bodies, so they’re one up already on their rivals who merely have knives growing out of their bones. Although the trailer does make one wonder how a guy who has a gun for a hand goes to the toilet in the morning.   

                        “Basically, My Ass is Riddled with Bullet Holes”

All in all, the trailer looks pretty solid. I wasn’t a big fan of the first Logan trailer, since it seemed to be trying too hard to turn an action movie into an Oscar-bait flick. But this trailer seems to be intended to reassure fans that the movie will still have lots of action and Wolverine stabbing people, in addition to that Holy Grail of X Men movies: A coherent and meaningful plotline.  Xavier wouldn’t have been my favourite choice for the only other X Men in the movie (that would be Deadpool, if again, he counts as an X Man) But Patrick Stewart is clearly the best actor in the movie, and will probably be needed to introduce viewers to this new X Men reality with an even more sullen and uncommunicative Wolverine. X23 is surprisingly effective in his tween avatar. You get to see shades of that short temper that she inherited from Logan, in addition to the claws, which almost seems like an afterthought in the trailer with everything else that’s going on.

My one problem with the trailer, surprisingly, was Logan himself, or more specifically, Logan’s fight scenes. There’s nothing new in those scenes. Running through a forest full of mercenaries. Jumping high in the air while clearly being supported by wires. Stabbing even more people. Those are all things Logan’s already done in earlier movies, and for an action movie, the action was actually the least interesting part of the trailer. I guess Deadpool has really raised the bar when it comes to viewer’s expectations from the more grounded superhero movies that don’t have an enchanted hammer or a robot armour to keep the action interesting. After all is said and done, the trailer seemed more interested in laying out the stakes than giving away the set pieces, so here’s hoping Logan finally gives us fans the adrenaline pumping Wolverine fight scenes we’ve been waiting for.

This is a guest post by Neeraj Chand Who blogs at Some Thoughts and Things.

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