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Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, who has now played the character [fake news alert!] more times than Basil Rathbone played Holmes or Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan) is having trouble getting his claws up and firm, if you catch my drift. He has aged badly, been rode hard and put up wet, and Patrick Stewart's Charles Eksavier (which is how I spell it, because everyone knows that's not how you pronounce Xavier) is even older and feebler. The wraith in the black cloak with the scythe haunts this film. Plus, there are said to have been no mutants born in a couple of decades.
Except.
Not the best movie ever about aging and death, but probably the best such in which we hear the word "adamantium" spoken, and it gives us the juvenile character (the stunning 4-foot-tall Dafne Keen's Laura) who spills blood most effortlessly and convincingly of any since Eli in Let the Right One In. I hope the kid gets a lighthearted comedy for her next role. Also therapy.
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