Sunday 14 February 2016

"Cancer's only in my liver, lungs, prostate, and brain. All things I can live without."


Year: 2016
Directed by: Tim Miller
Written by: Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (written by), Rob Liefeld & Fabian Nicieza (character)

A mercenary Wade Wilson finds out that he has cancer. He admits to a rogue experiment hoping it will cure his cancer. The experiment leads him with regenerative healing factor, and he adopts a new alter ego: Deadpool. Armed with weapons and his sense of humour, he starts to hunt the man responsible for the experiment and Wade's disfigured face.


Last year I said I hated Avengers Age of Ultron because it was just throwing one-liners at the audience. And yes, Deadpool was one one-liner after another, but Deadpool is different. It has substance where Avengers doesn't. It has a character we've been waiting for so many years. 

The movie is hilarious. Basically the audience got to laugh almost all the time. I think it's almost useless to say that Deadpool was funny, because we have been able to see that from the trailers and the marketing of this film alone.

The story was good. It was very similar to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, to be honest. Wilson gets new powers through experimentation he agreed to, but which turned out to go not as smoothly as previously thought, and then he hunts down the people who did that to him - and of course there's romance. But Deadpool does that story way better than X-Men Origins: Wolverine, mostly because it doesn't ruin any characters and other story lines while doing so. Quite the opposite: Deadpool introduces old familiar characters (Colossus) and some really cool new characters (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), and doesn't ruin them. And in Deadpool Colossus has the right accent, because I don't remember him having any accents in the other movies we saw him. Did he even talk in those? I doubt it.

The action scenes were alright. But the thing is, in superhero movies - especially anything related to X-Men - I kind of hope to see a lot of different mutant powers during those fights. Like sure, we might not know who those people are, but the powers are cool. Well, here we had like two villain mutates, and both had pretty boring skills. Of course Negasonic Teenage Warhead - whom I am in love with - pretty much made up for everything else.

I love the soundtrack of this movie. Thankfully it's on Spotify!

Deadpool is kind of like one of those new wave superhero stuff, like Kick-Ass: incredibly violent and filled with twisted jokes. However, comparing Deadpool to anything else than a superhero movie, it's just decent. And of course I have to compare it to my favourite action movie, compared to which Deadpool is only okay.

Deadpool was everything I wanted it to be - it was funny in a lot of different ways, it had enjoyable battle scenes and cool characters. It might not be the best action movie there is, but it definitely beats every Avenger movie there is. It's kind of like one of those new wave superhero stuff, like Kick-Ass: incredibly violent and filled with twisted jokes. Deadpool is worth your money, because ever comic book geek is going to love it. 

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
7 / 10

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