It is formulaic.
It follows the same formula as 90% of westerns. Slapping a coat of X-MEN paint on it doesn't change that fact.
It's not just westerns.
The grizzly disgruntled man with a past that haunts him, having to unwillingly escort an important little girl (that happens to be a badass) across the country that he develops an attachment to is
The Last of Us.
That little girl being a silent concentration of power that discovers the world (food, tv, music, etc) outside of the guarded facility where she was a living experiment is Eleven in
Stranger Things.
A child prodigy with powers going on the run with an older male figure in a genre blurring thriller is
Midnight Special from last year.
A dystopian but "grounded" future where caretakers are killed for trying to have a special girl that is the last of her kind transported to a safe haven is
Children of Men.
A hoard of motorcycles, trucks and cars chasing a single vehicle in a desert landscape felt like it was inspired by
Fury Road.
The stronger, more efficient version of the killing machine tracking down the less powerful killing machine that is protecting the child is the T1000 from
Terminator 2.
Hell the climax of T2 has the T1000 dragging the T800 around and impaling it, and the same exact thing happens with the Wolverine clone dragging Logan around and impaling him. "This is what it feels like" and "I know now why you cry" both cap their coming full circle moment of sacrifice while the child they protected mourns their impending deaths.
There is no shame sharing similarities with good films. And all films share some elements with other films, obviously. But even still, as good as Logan was, I was surprised with people touting it as
original or
subversive. Without grading on a curve or stipulating "for a comic book film", Logan in plot, characterization, action, tone, setting, and story was nothing you haven't seen many times before, most of the time in better movies/stories.
Again, I don't have an issue with that, most of these movies are really derivative, sometimes of each other (Iron Man to Dr. Strange, for example) but I guess going into this film, based on what people were saying, I was expecting a film I wouldn't describe as
really derivative.
Still really enjoyable, in the same way all of the influences were enjoyable, but there was never a beat or note or moment in the film that washed over me that I didn't immediately recognize from something I liked better in a different property.
....he's in sakaar at the 27 min mark of the movie 
....retire from comic book flicks unless they r rated breh. U bored before the credits finish rolling completely 
waste of money. Dunkirk was cac booty juice
