A new kind of super-hero about to spawn a new franchise

Rating: Null/10 (5 March 2016)

If you like your super-heroes straight and serious as opposed to camp, jokey and totally foul-mouthed; if you prefer a narrative that is linear and third person rather than one with lots of flash-backs and a first-person dialogue which regularly breaks the fourth wall; if you like violence to be quick and clean rather than brutal and disfiguring; then I guess "Deadpool" is not for you.
Think more "Kick-Ass" than "X-Men". If, on the other hand you're up for something rather different - a central character with special regenerative powers who is out for revenge for himself rather than justice for society and whose constant witticisms are as often about sex as cultural allusions, then you will find this movie a refreshing change from the usual super-hero fare.
Five years ago, Ryan Reynolds starred as the Green Lantern in a disappointing movie, but here he has created such an original and fun character than we might well have a new franchise. Certainly there would be scope for more bridges to the X-Men franchise, but for now we have only two new X-Men in the varied shapes of metallic giant Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and young Sian O'Connor look-alike Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand).
Also it would be good to have a more original villain than yet another Londoner (Ed Skrein) and to see more of Wade Wilson/Deadpool's girlfriend Brazilian "Homeland"-star Morena Baccarin.
By the way, be sure to stay till the end of the credits ...