Deadpool (2016) – Review

A complaint I’ve been hearing more and more about superhero movies, is that they are all alike. Of course that is partly true, but you’d be able to say the same thing about comedies or action movies. It is a genre which has grown enormously the last couple of years and with so many movies it’s easy to see the similarities. Still I think that there is enough variation. If you look at a movie like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which is like a cold war thriller, is it something completely different from a Batman movie or shows like Jessica Jones or Daredevil.

Of course they all have strong protagonists who have to battle evil, but that’s the foundation of the genre. If you take a close look at the details, the nuances you can see….oh, wait a minute, this is the intro I was going to use for the next superhero movie review, but as this is a review of Deadpool forget about all of that. This is not a superhero movie like you are used to.

This is where I would normally would write something down about the story to give you an idea of what the movie is about, but I’m wondering: why are you reading this review? I’m pretty sure it is to know whether I think if this movie is worth watching. The answer is yes and if you scroll down a bit…to the part where it says “score”, you would have enough reason to simply stop reading now and head straight to the cinema.

So you are still reading? You can do so, but the rest of this text will just be me confirming that score, don’t expect me to say any negatie things. Just stop reading, I’m ok with it. I’m already happy that you made the effort to stop by and read all this, but you can just blindly go and see the film if you want to experience something you haven’t experienced before.

Why is it that if someone tells you to not do something, you still do it? Ok, if you want to read more, I’ll write more. So about the story:
Wade (Ryan Reynolds) is a “gun for hire” who makes his money by performing small assignments, for example threatening someone. It is a tough job, but it pays his bills. He is faced with a difficult situation in his life and decides to take part in an experiment which would help him. It ends up changing him and now he’s out for revenge on those responsible.

 Straight from the opening of the movie it becomes clear that Deadpool will be unique experience. You first don’t pay much attention to the opening titles, but you pretty quickly realise that those titles are making fun of various movie cliches. It immediately sets the tone for the movie and director Tim Miller succeeds in keeping that up throughout the film. This is a non-stop attack on your senses with extreme violence, explosive action and an avalanche of dark jokes. I could write down twenty of them and I still wouldn’t have spoiled much. Deadpool constantly breaks the fourth wall, makes jokes about Ryan Reynolds, the budget Marvel had about this film or which actor he will meet when he has to see the X-Men.

In any other film that all could be seen as easy and cheap, but here it works perfectly and it results in a unique film, which I have watched with a huge grin on my face from beginning to end. Deadpool is the anti-hero, revels in it and shares that with its audience. With this movie Marvel shows that a superhero movie can be something different and that they still are able to surprise you. I already wrote this down, you didn’t need to read the rest…just shut off your screen and had to the cinema to see this.