8/10
>1/2
It has some of the best acting and sequences in similar films of this century, rivaling Sicario (2015) and Hell or High Water (2016), which for me are 9/10 and 10/10, respectively. The only elements that really prevent it from reaching higher is, ironically, the titular character, or more accurately the shared connection to the X-Men universe. I.E. the "pre-reading" necessary to fully understand the relationship between Logan and Charles, which is very clearly the emotional core of the film. So that's an unfortunate negative and is not really anybody on the film's fault, just the intrinsic byproduct of bloated franchises.
The only real issue other than that is the antagonists are not very compelling. Generic Science Man is as boring a trope as ever, and really reaches a new low here considering the aforementioned long-spanning history of the franchise and how many dozens of Generic Science Men in the franchise itself came before whatever this one was called. Yet they never develop. They never get smarter or evolve.
Boyd Holbrook is surprisingly great, but ultimately wasted. He's marketed as having a higher level of intelligence than his cohorts, almost to the extent of being a Frank Lucas type villain, but in the end he's just "The Muscle" and he's largely pointless after his initial appearance.
There never really seems to be any tension from the antagonists after they leave the compound, and rather than feeling like a serious, calculated sequences of chases like The Fugitive, it comes off more like looney tunes with the villains acting stupid/nonsensical being the only reason Logan & Co. continue to escape. As a result, the final battle doesn't have the weight it should, because it just feels like Logan fighting against himself. Literally and figuratively.
To that end, they should've just made a character drama and cut out the other nonsense out.