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Mind Coffee: ‘Logan’ is grim, raunchy, bloody … and quite good [trailer]

This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Hugh Jackman from the film, "Logan." (Ben Rothstein/Twentieth Century Fox via AP)
This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Hugh Jackman from the film, "Logan." (Ben Rothstein/Twentieth Century Fox via AP) This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Hugh Jackman from the film, "Logan." (Ben Rothstein/Twentieth Century Fox via AP)

By Shawn Ryan 3 min read

The last time I saw Charles Xavier, he was being blown into his individual atoms. Literally.

Back in 2006, the wheelchair-bound leader of the X-Men mutant clan was caught in the mental grasp of psychic Jean Gray, who was going insane at the time and turning into Dark Phoenix. Using only her mind, she poofed Xavier into oblivion in “X-Men: The Last Stand.”

photo Shawn Ryan

Yet here he was alive in the new film “Logan,” although he was in a much-diminished state and suffering from his own mental problems.

So how he got from atoms to upright, I have no idea.

Then again, I haven’t seen “X-Men: First Class” or “X-Men: Days of Future Past” or “X-Men: Apocalypse” or “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” which, along with the post-credits scenes – don’t ever leave the theater anymore until the lights come up – would explain all of it. I guess.