"}Yo the more I think about Logan the more it bugs me
this is 100% the unsuccessful screenwriter angry about what he could do to fix it so
like part of why Laura/Logan has no weight, they structure the arc as mentor-transmitting the message of \u201cthe burden of killing\u201d, being marked, and they just throw signifiers of solemnity at this - the Shane quotes, all that - but it just makes no sense.
Like, that worked for the Old Man Logan comics, but with the backstory changed it just doesn\u2019t fit as *the* thing accounting for Logan\u2019s giving up on life; Laura maybe needs to learn not to use violence as go-to problem solving but as she points out, her body count is torture orphanage soldiers come to kill her
So if you want an emotional theme that ties them together don\u2019t pull it from their shared killing, pull it instead from their shared healing
Like, from Logan\u2019s perspective his healing means he repeatedly survives seeing loved ones die, enduring great emotional suffering. But the flip side of that is he can channel the rage into the ability to protect his friends by enduring great physical suffering.
THAT\u2019S an interesting emotional dynamic, rooted in plot worldbuilding, that easily sets up redemption and overcoming narratives, that it would make sense for Logan to experience some insight in the course of passing on, that Laura in particular would be uniquely capable of drawing out of him.
And that would set up a more satisfying ending. For one, from an action and effects standpoint - for all the \u201cooh, rated R\u201d, it wasn\u2019t that gory and the action wasn\u2019t that memorable. There\u2019s two severed head bits delivered like an \u201880s slasher or \u201870s Italo exploitation flick only with better prosthetics and no sense of playfulness. A bunch of the capture team\u2019s forearms get severed and there\u2019s some nice lampshading in that a lot have prosthetics already and are presumably prepared for this. (A fact that parallels the protags\u2019 regeneration and augmented structure, deployed to little effect) Also, Logan does say \u201cfuck\u201d a bunch.
But reworking this angle the action climax would be a 9 year old girl charging a gun nest, getting shredded down to a screaming, meaty skeleton that proceeds to eviscerate the men inside. Now that woulda been memorable.
And from a character climax standpoint, the character that spent all this time running away and being protected would be flipping the script, advancing to protect, and this would be Logan\u2019s legacy, paying off his arc too, making her ready for what she\u2019ll need to endure.
I don\u2019t think you could just drop this in as is, you\u2019d have to do the pushy Laura/reluctant Logan stuff a bit different at least
(And while you\u2019re at it maybe polish some other things - if you\u2019re using that green medicine as a final-act plot device at least try to make something more of the reversal from Logan\u2019s initial role caretaking Charles and how that puts him in a place to go chasing the final setpiece)
But it could work. Call me next time.