Still pretty good

Rating: 8/10 (22 August 2019)

DEADPOOL 2
RATING: 3.8/5
I think the thing about these Deadpool movies is that you can tell Ryan Reynolds really cares about the character, so you know that he's not gonna phone it in. Honestly, Deadpool feels like this generations "The Mask." Yes, he doesn't have all the crazy magic powers Jim Carrey had, but his inability to die gives him a Looney Tunes quality about him. He literally comes back from every fatal injury imaginable like if he's Wile E. Coyote, which lends itself to some interestingly funny scenes.
I guess my main issues are the CG, and the action choreography. A lot of the CG is just bad, really bad. With all the money they made off the first movie, you'd think they would put in the money to have the CG look great, especially if they're gonna use so much of it compared to the first film. It took me out of the movie every time. A lot of the action feels a little on the generic side and not very creative unless it's played for laughs. It feels like a step back from the first Deadpool. Case in point, Dominos super power is luck, but it's portrayed like a Final Destination movie. The director must not have known that there's been 5 Final Destination films because the scenes here are pretty forgettable by comparison.
Overall I'm left with this feeling of unfulfilled potential with this sequel. The pieces are there for something greater than the first one, and although it may be funnier, story wise it isn't really that great the way things play out. For all the Domino controversy about her being Black, she's really not that big a character, hardly gets any development, and left me feeling pretty "meh" about her in the end. Cable is pretty great but he only gets bare bones development too. Every time he was on screen, i wanted to know more about him, and the future he came from, but they just never really deliver. The kid in the film is whatever, despite all the screen time they give him. Almost every character in the first movie gets relegated to the background this time around, and that just did not sit well with me cause i really liked the first one. Rather than building on the first film, it felt like they semi-scrapped it.
In the end, it comes down to what you find funny and what you'll accept, on whether this sequel is going to be better for you or not. For me, the laughs weren't as good as the first one but that's just my personal taste, and i would never really ding it for that. It came down to the bad CG, uninspired action scenes, and lack of development for everyone else but Deadpool, that kept lowering it's score from "great" and put it in "pretty good" territory. The first Deadpool is a better crafted movie overall, but the sequel is still entertaining, despite all its flaws.