Every Single X-Men Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

1. Logan

If it weren't for Deadpool, we probably wouldn't have Logan. Because, honestly, who would have thought that we could have an R-Rated, sort-of adaptation of Old Man Logan that took the biggest brand in comic book movies (Hugh Jackman's Wolverine) and stripped away everything that made him popular with a broad audience?

After making the somewhat dull The Wolverine, James Mangold struck gold by embracing the rating, making the violence as brutal as the heart is infectious and heavily channelling old Westerns to offer a portrait of a superhero confronted by his own mortality and the death of his entire species.

Remarkably, it's also a very restrained film. This could have been two hours of Wolverine slicing necks in gory close-up detail, but instead, it's a sombre tragedy written like a family road movie tragedy. And it's impossible not to be completely bowled over by the emotional elements of the story.

You might not want to watch it again though: that sort of devastation can't be good for anyone's mental health multiple times...

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