Deadpool includes two big action sequences - one at the beginning and one at the end - both of which are as fun as they are bloody. That's the plot, and while it's not particularly original or inspiring on its own, it forms a solid enough spine for first-time feature director Tim Miller and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to hang all their gags, one-liners and over-the-top action sequences on. The film obviously doesn't have the budget of a Marvel Studios film or one of the big X-Men movies proper, but Miller puts the money he does have to good use. So Wade makes himself a costume, takes on the name Deadpool and starts tearing through Ajax's organization, hoping the man who turned him into a monster can reverse the process, allowing him to reconnect with Vanessa as the man she once knew. Though he did at least get super-human healing abilities out of the deal. Wade escapes, but not before his primary torturer, a scientist/soldier/asshat named Ajax (Ed Skrein), has left him grossly deformed from head to toe. But then a kick in the balls: Wade is diagnosed with late-stage, inoperable cancer.įeeling desperate, he's tricked into becoming a subject for a shady super-soldier-esque program (not related to Weapon X in the film) that activates dormant mutant genes in people through torture and then turns them into super-powered slaves. Karma rewards him by having him bump into his ideal girl, a spunky prostitute named Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), and the two fall in love and eventually get engaged. That decision is openly mocked here (as is Ryan's big-screen Green Lantern), but continuity-wise, Deadpool is a complete reboot. This version of Wade Wilson is a lowlife, smart-aleck ex-mercenary who goes around saving teen-aged girls from creepy stalkers and committing other minor acts of heroism. A nice balance is struck between the two extremes, and, as a result, Deadpool is a total blast.Īs you may (unfortunately) remember, Reynolds has played Deadpool once before, in 2009's god-awful X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a movie that had so little appreciation for the character that it took away Deadpool's best asset by sewing his mouth shut. And the humor runs the gamut - from low-brow masturbation gags to supremely clever riffs on the state of franchise filmmaking. I'd say at least three-quarters of them stick, a bigger hit percentage than I would have expected. It's a pretty good superhero movie, all while it goes about relentlessly thumbing its nose at superhero movies. The jokes start in the opening credits (the funniest title sequence since 22 Jump Street's end credits) and don't let up the whole way through. Ostensibly an X-Men movie but really its own stand-alone thing, the R-rated Deadpool is gleefully violent and willfully perverse. At long last, Ryan Reynolds gets himself a comic-book movie that works! And, boy, does Deadpool work.
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