Deadpool
Director: Tim Miller
Talent: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Michael Benyaer
Release Date: 10th February 2016
Deadpool is a film that unashamedly and unapologetically dedicates itself to being ‘one for the fans.’ The result is a manic mess of a film that blunders its way through a fan-pleasing checklist with scant regard for consistent tone or competent filmmaking.
Reynolds is clearly having fun playing the ‘merc with a mouth’ (he’s a fan of the comics too, after all), but very little of that fun carries over to the film as whole. A few flashes of genuinely inventive visual humour are quickly drowned out by an avalanche of unimaginative pop-culture references and puerile use of swearing and nudity that wouldn’t be out of place in an episode of The Big Bang Theory or Family Guy to court offence.
Deadpool may have a distinct voice that sets it apart from its superhero blockbuster contemporaries, but it’s a voice that yammers over-loudly and incessantly, and isn’t a pleasant thing to be trapped in a cinema with for two hours.
Words: Bernard O’Rourke
