Gory, exciting, and fun that you can have with the wise cracking Deadpool.

Rating: 8/10 (19 May 2018)

Deadpool 2 (4 out of 5 stars).
Deadpool 2 is back and turns out to live up to the first movie. With plenty of exciting action sequences, a wise cracking script and performance from Ryan Reynolds that delivers with lots of humor. Ryan Reynolds is born to play the character. Plus the humor in the movie does take a lot of jabs to the Marvel characters from The Avengers or making fun of DC for its seriousness. It may not be the best superhero movie with a thin plot or lacking depth with the villain (I will avoid spoilers on the plot). Is it better than the first film? I will say they are equally entertaining. The first movie did not have much depth with the plot either.
The plot follows Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) after a downhill spiral on life. He may be given another chance to do a good deed by saving a moody mutant teen Russell (Julian Dennison) who has the powers of firefist. When Cable (Josh Brolin) arrives from the future and his only goal is to kill Russell. Deadpool enlists new recruits to form a team called X Force with one of the members being Domino (Zazie Beetz).
I will say the plot felt a little thin when it comes to having a story. Has that Terminator concept with a man coming from the future to rewrite history. Sure, there is a joke thrown in there from that concept. The movie is nonetheless entertaining, funny, and exciting.
There are plenty of action sequences that keep the pace moving. The opening montage of Deadpool facing against criminal mobs internationally to an opening credit scene that feels like a James Bond movie with a song played by Celine Dion (which works with the setting and tone of the opening scene). The car chase scene with the huge armored prisoner transport vehicle and Domino and Deadpool facing against Cable was the highlight of the movie. I felt like the climax of the movie was a little bit short. Without giving away spoilers, the turning point of the villain was a bit weak. Also, you get to know a little about Cable and his motives on going after Russell.
Josh Brolin was perfect as Cable. It would be difficult to see anyone else playing the character. Morena Baccarin returns. Same with T.J. Miller the wise cracking buddy of Deadpool. Colossus returns as the goody good X-Men character that is trying to recruit Deadpool to doing good. Brianna Hildebrand is back as Negasonic Warhead but with a short role. Zazie Beetz is Domino. And her character is also the highlight of the movie. She did great with the role. I did not like Julian Dennison as Russell. A character that is moody with anger issues and undeveloped. It was difficult to care for the character even when Deadpool and Domino are trying to save him.
The movie had plenty of humor. It did not take itself seriously which threw jokes towards Marvel's characters, DC, even the I want to build a snowman from Frozen. The humor was fun and stupid.
Overall, Deadpool 2 is a good superhero film. Ryan Reynold's delivered with performance and script. He is the wise cracking character, which also poked fun at himself. The action was exciting and also delivered by a director David Leitch (who did movies like John Wick and Atomic Blonde). Josh Brolin and Zazie Beetz were great and highlights of the movie. The film is a lot of fun with plenty of humor and action. Also, there is two mid credit scenes that is a lot of fun as it pokes fun at the character.
I do recommend seeing this film in theatres if you enjoyed the first movie for the action and its raunchy stupid humor.