A great way to spend Valentine's Day!

Rating: 9/10 (13 February 2016)

Going into this film, while excited I was also honestly a little hesitant. Largely because of the marketing giving the impression that the "Deadpool" movie was to right the wrongs that "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" had done to the character. Any time I hear a film attempting to "correct the wrongs" of a predecessor we receive movies like "Exorcist II: The Heretic" or "Batman & Robin". What I'm saying is that it usually doesn't work out very well. I was worried that the fourth wall humor would get stale or annoying. Or maybe the story would be too standard to be entertaining. The moment the opening credits hit the screen, all my doubts were put to rest.
After thinking hard about it now, I can confidently say that I love the hell out of this movie. So much so that it possibly rivals what has been my favorite Marvel movie for the last couple years, "Guardians of the Galaxy". The comedy is gold, from the hilarious opening credit sequence to the ending credit sequence I was pretty consistently laughing. The action is pretty fun and creative and gorges itself in the hard "R" rating. The references and cameos were fantastic. The fourth wall breaking actually worked extremely well and was one of the highlights of the whole movie. Ryan Reynolds loves every second he is playing this character; you can just tell that he is giving this role all of his energy and love. Last year he was in a movie called "The Voices", also a very good movie but is not the same as this; much darker but still very funny as well as intense. After I saw that movie I was saying how I hope that Reynolds will finally get his comeback movie and not keep getting handed bomb after bomb, it took a year but I believe that it finally happened.
He's in a great movie that is actually going over very well with the audience it seems. I'm not really going to delve too deep into the story, not because I think it's going to be chalk full of surprises for anyone who sees it. I think that most can probably guess what's going to happen because it's a simple story. That isn't an insult to the film at all, actually it's a compliment. It's nice seeing a Marvel movie breaking down to a basic revenge film instead of having to save the world in some grand and epic way. While I'm not saying that it's necessarily a bad thing when an "X-Men" or "Avengers" film does that, I'm only saying that it's nice to see one of the comic movies break away from that formula is all.
The film is about Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) who meets a girl (Morena Baccarin), falls in love and after a while he finds out he has cancer. Attempting to spare his fiancé any problems, he runs off without a word and joins this secret experiment that is promised to rid him of the cancer and even give him additional abilities. Things don't quite go as planned, causing Wade to take on the title "Deadpool" after being hideously deformed by the mad scientists involved, so he may exact his revenge and save his fiancé. Basic origin story, doesn't need a "world destruction and must stop it from happening" plot line. There's no "fish out of water" thing going on. There is one smart ass of a character that just wants revenge and to be with his fiancé again while not looking like hamburger meat. Everything in this movie works. The relationship between Wade and his fiancé was a lot of fun and I actually felt invested in them. Even the villain, who was played by the man that took on the last "Transporter" installment for its lead, Ed Skrein. I thought he was terrible and extremely bland in that movie, but in this he actually was some fun to watch and posed an actual threat to the hero without be too "stock". For some reason these characters easily grew on me and it didn't take me out or detach any emotional investment whenever the fourth wall was broken. Which can be a very hard and tricky thing to do, but this film does it flawlessly in my eyes.
I thought that this was a blast and I would love if I could see it again. I say bring the whole family! But that's because I grew up on "RoboCop" and "Friday the 13th" as a kid, although there wasn't a pegging scene in any of those movies...well anyways, if you like hard "R" action, Ryan Reynolds and "Wham!" on the soundtrack then you'll probably get a kick out of this movie.