The name of this film was Deadpool right?

Rating: 3/10 (29 August 2018)

Ok first off let me be clear - I love Ryan Reynolds so much! He is so funny and clever and just seems like a good dude. And I've loved Josh Brolin since Goonies BUT both of them were wasted in this film. Way too much time was spent trying to fit every single character into the story that it ended up being way too much. I was overloaded and I couldn't figure out what was going on. And the jokes?! They just kept coming and coming and coming...after awhile I was like Ok already! We get it. You're trying to be cute and clever and cheeky and use inside jokes and trying to be too cool for everything and OMG! Just shut up and present an actual story!
You know what this felt like? It felt like I was watching 2 hours of a gag reel instead of a movie. And then to top it off this film was trying to make a statement with the girl power thing and the LGBTQ thing AND there's nothing wrong with that but is it relevent to this story? Cause it kind of seemed more like RR was just trying to throw everything against the wall hoping something would stick and those important issues got glossed over and didn't have an opportunity to be fleshed out. I think instead of bringing it to light they just kind of threw all of it in just so they could say they did and not because it was relevent to the storyline. I mean was it supposed to be relevant? I don't even know anymore because I'm not sure what this film was supposed to be about. I mean you'd think with the name of the film being Deadpool that it would focus more on him. Instead it was about Firefist. And by the way I don't care that the actor who played him was morbidly obese but I did care that he couldn't act. He was just plain annoying. I didn't feel anything for him and was disappointed that Cable didn't kill him. I mean he tried to so there is that.
And Josh Brolin wasn't given much to do. With all the build up for his character prior to the release of the film I was so excited to see him on screen and then he was just rolling around on the ground for most of the film. We didn't even get a chance to really be invested in him as the "bad" guy before he's turning around wanting to join forces. That just felt rushed. For all the hype they pushed about Cable prior to the release and all the work JB put in physically for this role he deserved a lot more than just rolling around on the ground and standing around trying like hell to look like he didn't have anything better to do. He can act but even he couldn't save this one.
You know what I would have liked to see? A movie with the assembled team members they interviewed about half way in. Now those characters were interesting and fun to watch. I wanted more of them. Brad Pitt was the best thing about this film as the Vanisher. His less than two seconds of being onscreen was better than the rest of the movie. If they had just had a full two hours of Vanisher it would've been better than this mess. After a certain point I was no longer interested nor did I care if Deadpool lived or died and that's a shame because I loved the first Deadpool.
This movie felt like that annoying acquaintance we all know that is always "on" and when you finally get away from them you're just exhausted.
There was too much going on with this film and the knowing looks and breaking of the 4th wall and inside jokes and "nods to" this that and a million other things. It's not funny if the whole audience isn't in on all the jokes. When you have to read the notes from IMdB just to understand the movie you know you pry should have just skipped it.
I do not recommend. Let Deadpool die. Make room for the X-Force team. Oh and definitely get "Brown Panther" his own franchise - that dude is funny!