Movie Review: **Logan (2017)

X-Men series

Logan  I like this movie for the advancement of the story.  I hate it for the salacious violence and language.  Again this is a future look at X-Men; particularly Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman).  Xavier has a bad seizure disorder, which effects those around him.  Caliban (Stephen Marchant) has been helping them.  He has an ability to track others but is susceptible to light.  Apparently many of the others have passed away, except for a new generation of young mutants who have escaped a facility in Mexico.  Logan is brought into the fray by Laura (Dafne Keen), his genetic daughter.  When they are confronted by Pierce (Boyd Holbrock) who has been contracted to bring the girl back, we end with a trio, Laura, Xavier and Wolverine, on the road trying to find the safe house for the mutants in the north.  The story line to this movie is really good.  I have watched the tv edited version.  Even with this the movie is too violent and (even though dubbed out on tv) there is too much bad language for me to recommend this movie. 

Movie Review: The Host (2013)

This is the movie based on the Stephenie Meyer novel of the same name.  This movie combines a couple characteristics of Robert Heinlein books I have read, aliens inhabiting a human body, and two personalities being inside the same person.  It is hard to make something entertaining with two people inside the same body, but it is done effectively here.  This is a movie about sacrifice, and sometimes finding your true home where you don't expect to find it. 
Melanie (Saoirse Ronan) has been running free with her brother, Jamie (Chandler Canterbury) and boyfriend Jared (Max Irons).  However, the invading hosts are determined to capture everyone, and they come up to her.  However, the human host is strong and remains inside, while the alien soul, Wanda, is divulging all of Melanie's secret, with the goal of finding the other humans.  This leads to a conflict, which is finally a bit resolved when they take off and find the human refuge, headed by Melanie's uncle (J.D. Evermore).  Being hosted, your eyes shine differently, so everyone knows she is not human.  Their are conflicts and suspicions with the group; and even romance, Melanie and Jared, but also Wanda and Kyle (Boyd Holbrook).  Also in the cast is a seeker, Lacey (Diane Kruger) who will not give up, who herself is torn by her host's personality.  She finally finds their hide out, which  creates a dilemma with an interesting solutions.
Like some of Meyer's books, this movie is a bit slow at times as the story deals with the romantic parts, but over all very well done.