I've always thought he was a pretty good actor, and here he's exactly where he should be.Īnd you have to love the shots he and the film take at the genre. This is no complaint about Reynolds this is the perfect role for his self-deprecating wit. More jokes hit than miss, but occasionally, you wish Deadpool would come down with a case of laryngitis. This is by design, of course, part of the school of comedy that too much is never enough. If there is a flaw here, it's that the nonstop commentary and jokes are exhausting. Not save the world or anything so grand as that.Īlong the way, he will reluctantly get the help of minor X-men Colossus (the CGI character referred to in the opening credits) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), a bratty girl with awesome powers who manages to get a few choice texts sent before springing into action.Įverything that happens gets the smart-aleck meta treatment from Deadpool. When Ajax and his buffed-up sidekick Angel Dust (Gina Carano) kidnap Vanessa, Deadpool becomes even more determined to find his foe and kill him. He wants to get to Ajax (Ed Skrein), the creepy doctor who left him looking like, well, you know. So, instead of saving good guys or taking out bad guys, Deadpool, as Wilson begins calling himself after sewing his own costume, has a singular motivation: revenge. He winds up undergoing some back-alley treatment that leaves him immortal but hideously deformed (a testicle with teeth is one of the more colorful descriptions). He falls for a beautiful prostitute, Vanessa Carlysle (Morena Baccarin), and for a time they enjoy a blissful life of sex, companionship, sex and, when they're not otherwise occupied, more sex.īut Wilson gets diagnosed with inoperable cancer.
Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds, never better) is an ex-Special Forces veteran who has become a gun for hire. Despite its foul-mouthed digs at the genre, "X-Men" in particular, "Deadpool" plays at being an anti-origin story while most assuredly being one. This plays over a slowed-down action sequence that the film comes back to often after a series of flashbacks that give us the origin story of the title character. Instead, we get titles like "overpaid tool" (Miller), "a CGI character," "some hot chick" and, for Reese and Wernick, "the real heroes here." Director Tim Miller and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (both from Phoenix) dispense with the typical opening credits. You know from the start that this will be a different kind of movie. It takes a strong stomach for extreme violence and over-the-top obscenity, but if you're willing to roll with that, "Deadpool" is a hoot.
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