Every Marvel Comic Book Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

4. Logan

Who could ever have guessed that an R-Rated soft adaptation of Old Man Logan would end up being the greatest X-Men movie?

Logan had a lot riding on it, not least because it represented Hugh Jackman and Sir Patrick Stewart's last stands as two of the best characters in the entire franchise, but it achieves its objectives and more. It is as devastating as it is exhilarating, as satisfying in its conclusion to Logan's arc as it is mournful at the loss.

And it's braver and bolder than any X-Men movie before it, stripping out almost all of the comic book movie tropes and instead becoming a revisionist Western in the oldest tradition, taking in the inspiration of Shane, Unforgiven and The Wrestler and mashing it with a thoroughly modern, thoroughly brutal R-Rating that delivered more gore than has ever been seen in this genre.

But it's more than just gore porn: it has more heart than any of its predecessors and the intimate exchanges between characters (usually when one of them is dying) are undoubtedly the high-points of James Mangold's towering achievement.