Captures Essence of the Character Perfectly

Rating: 9/10 (12 February 2016)

I saw "Deadpool", starring Ryan Reynolds-Green Lantern, Blade:Trinity; Moreana Baccarin-Gotham_tv, Spy; Ed Skrein-The Transporter Refueled, Game Of Thrones_tv; Gina Carano-In The Blood, Haywire and T.J. Miller- Transformers:Age of Extinction, Cloverfield.
This is the first super hero movie of 2016 and they knocked it out of the park. They really captured the spirit of the comic book character that made his first appearance back in 1991 in New Mutants #98. From the opening credits, you can tell this is going to be a different kind of super hero movie. Ryan plays Deadpool, aka Wade Wilson, aka The Merc with a mouth. He got that last nickname because he is always making jokes; sort of like Spider-Man on speed. Ryan also played Wade Wilson in X-Men:Origins Wolverine. Of course, this being the origin of Deadpool, you learn how he became Deadpool, including how he got the name. Moreana plays Ryan's girlfriend and T.J. is his friend that also runs the local bar that Ryan hangs out at. Ryan is a former special forces mercenary that finds out he has Cancer and gets an invitation to participate in an experimental procedure to cure it. Ed is the administrator of the so-called cure, which does cure the Cancer and gives him the healing factor of Wolverine, but in the process, it mutates his body into a Freddy Krueger look-a-like. Ed and his lab assistant, Gina, have plans of turning Ryan into a super slave for the highest bidder but Ryan doesn't plan on cooperating. There are several cameos, including a couple of X-Men and Stan Lee pops up in a strip club. There is a scene after the end credits so don't leave too soon. It's rated "R" for violence, language and sexual content-including nudity, so do not take the little impressionable children to this one- and has a running time of 1 hour & 48 minutes. I really enjoyed this movie and would buy it on Blu-Ray.