the Mockumentary style of the Merc with the Mouth: Killed it.

Rating: 9/10 (16 June 2016)

OK, it was an origin story - again. I don't know how many more super hero movies - Especially origin stories - I can take.
But this one killed it, and for a couple different reasons: First of all, it was fun, funny, sexy, and almost gratuitously violent (hey, I'm a North American movie watcher, I like those as much as the next guy.) I found their approach to sexuality hilarious - one nice big montage, get all that super steamy sex out of the way, so that Boom we can go back to the plot.
The violence was great - I thought they could have done more to establish the fact that Wade Wilson was a badass apex-fighter Pre healing factor, or shown some training montages after his powers, or Something to justify his triple-sow-cow aerial-marksmen maneuvers (lol) and I thought the fight between him and Francis at the end would have been more realistic if Francis (who had enhanced reflexes) took less hits, while Wade (with normal, albeit "Peak" reflexes) just kept taking hit after hit but wearing Francis down gradually. Aside from that though, Epic fighting and I loved it.
But finally, I think part of the reason it was a success was the Mockumentary style - like The Office - of Wade constantly breaking the fourth wall (like in the comic book). It was hilarious, and added new levels of humour: it also allowed the character to comment ironically on himself and his situation, and connect with the audience in a new way through that. The lines themselves were funny too, and the delivery excellent, but the 'Mockumentary' fourth wall style turned out to be super conducive to getting viewers to connect with the character (which is particularly important given his anti hero status - we forgive Wade for a lot because of his brief asides to us.) Excellent flick, highly entertaining. One of my favourite lines was when Wade is talking about being good looking, and asks "Do you think Ryan Reynolds got by on his 'acting method'?" I thought that was hilarious - and then watched as the same Ryan gave an excellent performance while looking like a diseased avocado. Well done ol' boy.