Maybe it was because I just watched Touch of Evil, Fourteen Hours (Grace Kelly's first role) and Pale Rider, but I was ready to take this film in.
The was just the right amount of moral conflict for the leading characters to qualify as a neo-noir type film/western.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but this was a great film. While it's not totally up the highest standards of modern film noir type films like for instance, The Grifters, yet it achieves a unique tone that separates from the rest of the X franchise. It practically renders them superficial now.
After the dumb X-Men: Apocalypse, I wouldn't have dreamed it possible that a third Wolverine movie would be considered in the top 5 funnybook movies ever made.
The only bad thing was that it felt a half an hour too long.
It's not Unforgiven, but it's not the first Wolverine either.