Deadpool Movie Review

Our friendly Merc with a mouth has made it to the big screen but does he kill it or just flop like a severed regenerative limb?

My fiance and I decided to take an early afternoon trip to our local cinema and check out Deadpool the day after its U.K release. I've only been to the cinema in the early afternoon once or twice, but today we got there to be greeted with a horde of pensioners who were off to see their favorite films where the ODEON gives out tea and biscuits. I assumed that they were all going to see the remake of Dad's Army. But no, most of them wandered into see The Suffragette (A film I have no interest in seeing). So that was our start to our latest cinema experience, A slightly odd but sweet experience.

Onto Deadpool. We kick the film off with a freeze-frame of the car fight that was in all the trailers for the movie. as the camera cuts around the scene we're given the opening credits that feature lines like "Produced by some Asshats", "Starring a Moody Teen" and so on, This is our first indication that Deadpool is thankfully self-aware and straight away you feel pretty relaxed knowing that it's not going to be depressing and miserable like a certain six-clawed mans films have been,

This car fight takes up a lot of trailer time and to be honest, that's because the car fight sequence IS most of the movie. We cut to and from Deadpool's origin and the car fight sequence, which in all honesty, on paper sounds really annoying. But on film is actually really really well done,

From a cinematic technical standpoint, Deadpool is outstanding and beautifully shot. Even non-followers of the technical side of film-making will appreciate just how excellently this film was shot and cut together. The action sequences in specific are both perfectly choreographed and hilarious at the same time. 

Deadpool is a revenge story at its core, With Ed Skrein (The old Daario from GoT) as the primary antagonist of the movie. Skrein plays the role of Francis 'Ajax' Fanny as well as anyone could've hoped and handles the role perfectly. However, herein lies my problem with Deadpool... The villains. Deadpool is an excellent movie that unfortunately fails to include an excellent villain, Yeah Ajax is nice but he's very VERY generic, suitably evil but not so much as to be over-the-top, and is also some sort of intelligent mafia-esque shady leader. He's basically a stock villain given a Deadpool character's name, which kinda works, but also feels a little dull. 

Ed Skrein plays Ajax

Fans of Deadpool will love every single joke, nod and nudge to the both the Marvel universe and movie industry collectively. Deadpool himself breaks the fourth wall often and even references the actor playing himself in his own movie... which when you take time to think about, is really confusing. There's also lots of blood, boobs, beatings and well "beatings". 

All in all Deadpool is the little movie that could, and you can see just how much Reynolds loves the character of Deadpool. To be honest, it's just nice to see Ryan Reynolds finally get the role he's always wanted and was basically born to play. 

With jokes that work throughout the whole film, blood and gore that is well-done, action that pleases, and the titular character being lovable just for how mad he is, Deadpool proves to be a great Superhero flick that stands side-by-side with Iron Man, Avengers, and X-Men. Except Deadpool is much more adult than them. 

Deadpool gets a Witless Reviews rating of: PERFECT