Review of Deadpool (2016) by Alex A — 07 Jan 2017

Meh.

I gotta be completely honest, this wasn't all that great. It was a cliched okay. It's energetic, sure, and unapologetically has fun with itself. The self awareness and 4th wall breaking gag only works so much until the film sort of overuses it.

No, I'm not a comic book fiend so I'm not that familiar with Deadpool's universe, so I'm critiquing the film based on my subjective observation and experience.

The action? Its violent. It's gory. Is it blow-away? Hell no. Does it entertain? Simply yeah, not hell yeah. It's slicing, dicing, shoot-em-up galore with lots of punching thrown into the mix. Nothing groundbreaking.

How about the comedy? I mean I chuckled here and there. But was I ever dying of laughter? Nope. I mean what can you expect? It's contemporary comedy relying on pop culture references and millennial humor. Toilet and sexual jokes for the easily impressionable masses. Yawn.

Visual effects and CG I are, like most things in this film, decent. Although some of it is rather unremarkable.

Good performances. Although looking back now, the villain is forgettable. The big steel X-Men guy who looked like Jack from Tekken? He was alright. And the rebellious flaming teenage girl? Lame, and half dimensional. Then again, most of the characters in Deadpool have basically no character development, aside from Deadpool himself.

Bottom line? This is extremely decent, but ultimately disposable entertainment. It's dumb fun, but not always fun.

Can't say I'm eager for Deadpool 2.