A superhero movie unlike every other, for a "superhero" unlike any
other. Well, anti-hero, but you get the idea. Wade Wilson, mercenary, meets and forms a relationship with exotic
dancer Vanessa Carlysle. Their relation goes well for over a year, when Wade
finds out that he suffers from a cancer. He follows up on the offer of a
mysterious man who works for a shadowy institution that offers to cure terminal
diseases… and after a long time of experimentations and torture, finds himself
with a mutant healing factor that makes him really hard to kill, but leaves him
with a face that makes him, in his own terms, unfuckable. After escaping, he
sets out to find and kill the guy who did this to him, another mutant with the
ultimate resistance to pain. On his quest, Wade (who wasn’t already exactly
sane from the get-go) dons a mask and kills his way through subordinates to
find the guy’s whereabouts.
Thus begins the story of the Merc With A Mouth, fully aware that he’s in
a movie and taking every chance he gets to dis the X-Men (who, in this game,
want to recruit him to control him) or any of Ryan Reynolds’ previous superhero
roles (that is, Green Lantern and the Deadpool of X-Men Origins: Wolverine). It’s
also clearly an anti-hero we’re following, not a hero, as even though Deadpool
is our protagonist, much of what he does is just plain wrong in so many ways.
The film also definitely deserved its R rating, judging by the extreme fight
scenes, and the many sexual scenes (sure, there’s the Wade/Vanessa ones, but it’s
also used for a joke once in a while after Wade’s transformation).
The main character is crazy awesome – as per the course for Deadpool –
and the secondary characters are also really great, like Colossus or Negasonic
Teenage Warhead. Talking about that, when she’ll grow up, will she change her
name to Negasonic Warhead? Whatever. The fight scenes are fun, and the special
effects are pretty great too. While it is mostly a comedic superhero movie,
there are some dramatic scenes that work very well; though, you can guess a
dramatic scene won’t stop Dead-friggin-pool from making jokes.
I really enjoyed this film, and I’m sure you will, too, if this kind of
comedy superhero falls right into the sort of thing you like. I didn’t dare to
say much about the film since Deadpool fans who may not have seen the movie so
far wouldn’t like it spoiled to them, and I don’t think I’ve spoiled too much
so far. Anyway, see you tomorrow for another quickie review of a movie I went
to see in theaters.
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