Review of Deadpool 2 (2018) by Rktim — 18 May 2018

Remember how Bad Santa was a great movie because it focused on the main characters killing law enforcement officers and white collar workers while just randomly making up reasons to kill them on the fly to justify what they where doing? Remember how when you where a kid you always thought superheroes where awesome because of how easily they could kill Timmy while he is trying to put food on his table?

Yeah that's the goal of the power fantasy according to Deadpool 2.

You might argue that such things are often the case but rarely is it this blatant. This movie plays out the power fantasy as if the writers had only had the basic concept explained to them by someone that hates power fantasies.

I loved the first Deadpool movie, I find the over-the-top violence and forth wall breaking shenanigans hilarious, but at some point half way through this movie just lost me as laughter and amazement started to turn in to a dull wait for it to end.

Time for spoilers!

I get it, I get that the guards at the ICE box are all horrible anti-mutant racists and so are the employees at the orphanage. However if you take a step back and look at what the movie actually shows you then what? Deadpool goes on a killing spree killing prison guards and people transporting convicts, we know a few of them hates mutants (not that they deserve to die for that but hey it's a movie so I can accept that as a justification) but we know nothing about the rest.

As for the orphanage? The director is some nutjob that should be locked up for a few years, one guy looked creepy, that's it, that's all we get to know.

Picture this: You get a job at an orphanage for mutant kids, director has some thing he does to the kids that seems to hurt but you don't know **** about mutants and he says it helps them. Also you know there have been generations of kids living here and leaving so if something was wrong the cops should have been here a long time ago right? Then suddenly one day that **** mutant **** that randomly shot your coworker last weak shows up with some woman and a dude with an assault rifle, they torch the place and start to murder people. Do you A) Grab a gun and try to protect the kids from the murderous psychopaths or B) Run for your life?

Also they are screaming about how fun it is to kill pedophiles and everyone are just looking around confused wondering where the hell that came from.

Where Deadpool 2 really fails is that it doesn't mange to set up a real goal for the movie, or a reason for why we need to have super heroes do any of this. Deal with Juggernaut? Sure, that could have been solved by Deadpool and Cable not killing law enforcement officials to begin with. Kid going mental and killing people, see previous statement. Ok so whats the way around that? Well you make the movie all deep and emotional, that's how you work with hat dynamic yet? And they did (tried to). BUT ITS A **** DEADPOOL MOVIE. I did not pay to go and see 20+ minutes of deep and emotional. I paid to see awesome fights between people with superpowers and maybe a couple hundred criminal henchmen being killed. Not just a few superheros slaughtering normal humans out of whom a majority are likely to just be innocent guys trying to live their life while working fairly respectable jobs. "But they fought Juggernaut" yeah for like 30 seconds and at that point they had already lost me. Also that's like the lames guy they could have been put up against to begin with. "Whats your thing?" - "I'm tall and have allot of muscles.." - "k..". On top of that Juggernaut wasn't even the point, he was just a small side note to be used as a plot device for a subplot no one cared about.

The reason I compared the movie to Bad Santa is because it basically comes down to "What if the kid in Bad Santa had a gun and was going to shoot his bullies?". But we don't need the pure awesome that is Deadpool to make that that movie, it's a waste of a character.

And then they have time travel and they use it just about as responsible as you would expect them to, aka not responsibly at all. Look, never have time travel, just don't. If you must send someone forward ONCE or someone back ONCE (from really far in to the future), and preferably never ever back, ever. Yes they ended by making the entire movie pointless and a waste of time as nothing of it ever actually happened because magic wrist watch, it might as well have been a dream. Actually it would have been better if it had just been one of Deadpools deranged dreams, then it would actually have made some **** sense.