Overrated (mild spoilers)

Rating: 4/10 (28 February 2016)

For my money, Deadpool is nowhere near as funny as its star rating would have you believe. The jokes are repetitive, crass and boring. On three separate occasions a character is described as looking like 'thing A had sex with thing B'. The movie is only two hours long, you'd think a bit more variety in joke insults would be possible. Sadly the writers seem to lack imagination and instead repeatedly fall back on reminding us how much Deadpool likes having sex, or breaking the fourth wall and making some reference to the film's budget.
Deadpool as a character is totally unlikeable. He's a completely self-absorbed narcissist, whose main dilemma in the film is that he's not as attractive as Ryan Reynolds anymore. The plot is virtually non-existent. Some vague reference is made near the start to the fact that the bad guys are creating mutants/super-humans and selling them as weapons, but it's never really followed up on. The main villain is utterly two-dimensional, we don't really know anything about him except that he is really evil and has a grudge against Deadpool for some reason that seems to largely be down to Deadpool's 'hilarious' smart-assery. The final action set-piece at the end of the film is totally boring, and in this day and age it takes more than some whizzy CGI to make for an interesting film sequence. There's a bit of fighting, a building/thing falls over and there you have it, the film ends.
All in all the film is well made, and looks nice. The actors put in good performances. I just found it to be totally boring, not nearly as clever or funny as it acts like it is, and to be almost entirely without any sort of interesting story.