Film Review: Deadpool(2016)
Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary. His world comes crashing down when evil scientist Ajax (Ed Skrein) tortures, disfigures and transforms him into Deadpool. The rogue experiment leaves Deadpool with accelerated healing powers and a twisted sense of humor. With help from mutant allies Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), Deadpool uses his new skills to hunt down the man who nearly destroyed his life. Release date: February 12, 2016 (India) Director: Tim Miller Box office: 760.3 million USD Budget: 58 million USD Producers: Ryan Reynolds, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg |
Film Critic Reviews
Ryan Reynold’s smart-talking antihero makes a profanely amusing addition to the X-Men universe.
Mark Kermode
Still, Deadpool is party time for action junkies and Reynolds may just have found the role that makes his career. Full review
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
A scabrously funny big-screen showcase for the snarkiest of Marvel's comic-book creations.
Justin Chang
Deadpool, much like its source material, is an irreverent, bloody, and riotous twist on the superhero genre - a must-see comic book movie experience.
Ben Kendrick
Deadpool
Ryan Reynolds brings back his "merc with a mouth" superhero for maximum (and meta) chaos.
There's a lot of huffing and puffing in Deadpool, but the only one who can blow down your resistance to yet another screwed-up citizen of the Marvel universe is Ryan Reynolds. Armed with an unlimited arsenal of delicious snark, Reynolds has a blast playing Wade Wilson, the Special Forces operative turned mercenary turned cancer patient turned medical experiment turned Deadpool, a scar-faced mutant with a penchant for superhero drag and a mouth on him.
As played by Reynolds, Deadpool looks at the camera and talks right to us. Nothing is sacred, including the opening credits which refer to the film's creative team as "tools" and "asshats" and name-check Reynolds as People's Sexiest Man Alive. Screenwriters Rhett Rheese and Paul Wernick turn the comic created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza into their personal playing field for R-rated dirty talk and viscera-ripping violence. The PG-13 timidity of so many Marvel movies has made some of us hungry to see depraved crazies at the controls. Now we've got them. Deadpool has no off-switch. This dude keeps cracking wise even when he's plotting vengeance against Ajax (Ed Skrein), the villain who made his face look like corn-beef hash.
That's one of the reasons Deadpool wears a mask and keeps away from Vanessa (Homeland's Morena Baccarin), a strip-joint hooker to whom he has pledged his heart. Believe it or not, Baccarin and Reynolds make you care about this hot couple from hell. And T.J. Miller gets in his licks as Deadpool's bartender buddy from his Wade days. Newbie director Tim Miller keeps the action coming in gory chunks, mixing in appearances from bad-girl Angel Dust (Gina Carano) and two X-Men — Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand). Deadpool keeps ripping the studio for cheapness since it only provided two X-Men, but provides a nasty Wolverine impression you won't want to miss.
I gotta tell you, this movie's junky feel is part of its charm. Sure it goes on too long and repetition dulls its initial cleverness. Still, Deadpool is party time for action junkies and Reynolds may just have found the role that makes his career.
Ryan Reynold’s smart-talking antihero makes a profanely amusing addition to the X-Men universe.
Mark Kermode
Still, Deadpool is party time for action junkies and Reynolds may just have found the role that makes his career. Full review
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
A scabrously funny big-screen showcase for the snarkiest of Marvel's comic-book creations.
Justin Chang
Deadpool, much like its source material, is an irreverent, bloody, and riotous twist on the superhero genre - a must-see comic book movie experience.
Ben Kendrick
Deadpool
Ryan Reynolds brings back his "merc with a mouth" superhero for maximum (and meta) chaos.
There's a lot of huffing and puffing in Deadpool, but the only one who can blow down your resistance to yet another screwed-up citizen of the Marvel universe is Ryan Reynolds. Armed with an unlimited arsenal of delicious snark, Reynolds has a blast playing Wade Wilson, the Special Forces operative turned mercenary turned cancer patient turned medical experiment turned Deadpool, a scar-faced mutant with a penchant for superhero drag and a mouth on him.
As played by Reynolds, Deadpool looks at the camera and talks right to us. Nothing is sacred, including the opening credits which refer to the film's creative team as "tools" and "asshats" and name-check Reynolds as People's Sexiest Man Alive. Screenwriters Rhett Rheese and Paul Wernick turn the comic created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza into their personal playing field for R-rated dirty talk and viscera-ripping violence. The PG-13 timidity of so many Marvel movies has made some of us hungry to see depraved crazies at the controls. Now we've got them. Deadpool has no off-switch. This dude keeps cracking wise even when he's plotting vengeance against Ajax (Ed Skrein), the villain who made his face look like corn-beef hash.
That's one of the reasons Deadpool wears a mask and keeps away from Vanessa (Homeland's Morena Baccarin), a strip-joint hooker to whom he has pledged his heart. Believe it or not, Baccarin and Reynolds make you care about this hot couple from hell. And T.J. Miller gets in his licks as Deadpool's bartender buddy from his Wade days. Newbie director Tim Miller keeps the action coming in gory chunks, mixing in appearances from bad-girl Angel Dust (Gina Carano) and two X-Men — Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand). Deadpool keeps ripping the studio for cheapness since it only provided two X-Men, but provides a nasty Wolverine impression you won't want to miss.
I gotta tell you, this movie's junky feel is part of its charm. Sure it goes on too long and repetition dulls its initial cleverness. Still, Deadpool is party time for action junkies and Reynolds may just have found the role that makes his career.