A shot to the heart of the boring comic heroes.

Rating: 8/10 (8 March 2016)

Well it's about time.
For so many years we've suffered through the moralising of Batman, Superman and any number of X-Men (or women), oh and don't get me started on Spiderman and his "with great power comes great responsibility" waffle. They're all so anxious, obnoxious and tedious.
But now we have Deadpool.
Here's a superhero I can get behind (not the same way his girlfriend gets behind him. not that there's anything wrong with that) he's a dude who fights the bad guys the way they fight. Nasty! How many times have we seen Superman smash a baddie and stop short of killing the guy to hand him over to the authorities just for said villain to escape again? Deadpool doesn't suffer from such niceties as justice or compassion. He shoots first and asks questions later. Much later. Like the next day while the coroner is sifting through the remains.
Deadpool is a guy who just gets the job done and doesn't need to moan about it to his butler, in his billion dollar mansion while two supermodels polish his furniture. In fact his alter-ego Wade Wilson lives in a fairly spartan apartment with a blind woman for company and what seems to be a cache of weapons and ammunition big enough to take down ISIS? He's a blue-collar-down-to-earth former soldier with outstanding recuperative skills thanks to a recent brush with a mad scientist. Not "crazy" mad, "angry" mad at Wade!
Ryan Reynolds was born for this role. He's funny AND annoying which is huge improvement on his Green Lantern effort where he was just annoying. His co-stars are just along for the ride which is wildly violent, extremely crude and so unlike every other superhero film it's an instant classic.
Not a kids film or a date film (unless your girlfriend recommends it, in which case go.. then marry her on the way home).