More Than a Comic-Book Movie, Logan Is an Elegy to a Fading Hero

Let's face it: The comic-book movie, that less-than-nutritious staple in the contemporary cinematic diet, has become something of a mess. The budgets get bigger, the grosses remain relatively stable, yet the films themselves are becoming increasingly incoherent displays of numbing visual effects held together by mystical, pseudo-scientific jargon and self-satisfied winks to the fanboy contingent.…