Deadpool Review

Because who is saying no to that ass?

For starters, Marvel is a franchise that came rather late to me but most definitely has found its own place in my heart, and Deadpool has his own little section for himself. Deadpool is a character that appeals to me so much more than any other and that has to be because of his wacky sense of humour and, well, questionable nature. Also to note, this is NOT a superhero movie.

Anyway, moving on. Deadpool is the oddly touching story of a man finding a woman whom he loves, only to find that he has terminal cancer and will not live too much longer. This clearly being a horrible situation, he gets found by an organisation who offer to cure his cancer and more. Unfortunately this transpires to be a mistake and is consequently trapped in a life of torture until he becomes a mutant. Mutation ensues and he is left horrifically disfigured and sets out to capture (and eventually kill) his torturer in an attempt to correct this.

Now that anyone who didn’t know is in the loop, onto the review. I went to a midnight viewing so already there’s a huge buzz about the place. This film impressed me right from the off as it opened with such a wonderful sequence. The shot was one beautiful continuous pan to reveal a much bigger picture, which almost distracted me from the already side-splitting humour within the opening credits. Opening a film with credits such as “some rich guy” and “sexy motherfucker” can’t really go wrong in my book. Very Deadpool, very funny.

Then we are thrown straight into the action and plenty of fourth wall breaking. Now this is something that I find is overused in cinema nowadays and not in a particularly good way. It takes talent to make it work, from both a director and an actor. Ryan Reynolds does this so perfectly and without missing a single beat which personally had me crying with laughter (bear in mind this was minutes into the film). Wonderfully done.

However, we are then thrown back in time in a rather abrupt way that carries on for about half an hour of the film. This frustrates me in some ways and the constant back and forth between times in the plot was rather distracting to say the least. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the fact that we got a bit of everything we needed to know, but it was really rather unsettling for a while. I want to sail through this kind of story and enjoy the humour but the jumps in time were rather awkward.

But otherwise, the romance scenes really rather made up for this. The romantic thread that runs through heart of this story really made me smile. It was wonderful to see this kind of serious spin on such a dark yet humour out film. Morena Baccarin portrayed Vanessa really quite well and did add enough comic relief to make this believably Deadpool. It’s also wonderfully refreshing to see a woman who represents female sexuality in a rampant but not crude way. She’s not portrayed to be “slutty” or even really painted in that bad a light, she’s just made to be exactly what she is, a woman who enjoys sex. This was needed in my book as its something I can really relate to.

However I almost found her to be a bit underplayed considering she is the “love of Wade’s life”. I found her to get progressively more annoying and to the point of ‘naggy’ which really rattled my cage. I felt that she was pretty much ruined as a character by trying a bit too hard to be a protective girlfriend. For me, it was such a loss.

But on the lighter side, Ryan Reynolds just IS Deadpool. No questions asked. He is everything I wanted and more. He brings comedy, action and, as you may have noticed at the start, a really great ass. In bright red spandex no less! I’m sure he would be pleased to hear that one. His comic timing is absolutely impeccable and he is an absolute joy to watch. A marvel if you will (badum bum). But seriously, if there is a reason for you to go and see Deadpool, it just has to be just because there is no one else who could be him ever again.

But one person other than Ryan Reynolds stole the show for me. Ed Skrein was absolutely fantastic. The idea of “the British villain” as stated in the title sequence made me a little sceptical of how they would present him. However I was pleasantly surprised as he is most definitely not the stereotypical British villain. He so delightfully menacing that it’ll send shivers down your spine, believe me. He seems pure evil and his plot twists are just the best. I feel he really knew his stuff when it came to Deadpool and he knew exactly what this kind of film needed in terms of a villain. A solid performance all round.

The intergration of the X-Men I thought was really satisfying. However, it did feel in places like a crash back to reality as Colossus can be a wee bit of a buzz-kill. But “Negasonic Teenage Warhead” (or Sinead O’Connor if you like) was an unbelievably cool character. Brianna Hildebrand barely even needed to say a word and was perfect. I feel that without her Colossus wouldn’t have fit into the story very well, mostly because of the small amounts of banter between her and Deadpool. All in all, it was great to see other parts of the Marvel universe come together once again.

The level of violence really satisfied me in this film because it’s great to see a near Tarantino level of gore in a Marvel film. This combined with the smart-mouth comments and sexual references makes for a really edgy spin on the Marvel universe that Deadpool represents. The amount of masturbation jokes made me laugh to an unholy level. After this film I can safely say I’m going to hell.

All in all, Deadpool is really going to be hard to beat this year. I wanted this film far more than Captain America and it more than delivered. You’ll find yourself jerking in your seat, mostly from laughter, otherwise in excitement (but I’m sure Ryan Reynolds would state otherwise). Go and see Deadpool. I mean now. Go and see the wonderful spandex clad sass machine kill some bad guys.

Little treat for you at the end there, have a sensual Deadpool. Thanks for reading!