Film Reviews & Movie Analysis

This is a family movie.

No seriously.

However it’s less; picnics and picturesque shots to hang over the mantelpiece, and more; jumping out of planes, killing everyone in sight and giving the world the middle finger.

Deadpool aka Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is enjoying his role as the most brutal, feared and rude assassin in his (multi)world and in some ways ours too.

But only one person makes up Wade’s world, and once she is out of the picture, our antagonizing anti-hero needs something else to believe in. Or more specifically; someone to believe in him.

Unfortunately for pretty much everyone around him, Wade isn’t the most approachable of costumed crusaders. But time is running out, and a pinch of kindness may be the only weapon against a threat from the future.

As much as I can’t make sense of how or why it works, I have come to accept and enjoy how the franchise unashamedly doesn’t care about the line between the real world and the screen-world. It allows for a wealth of pop culture one liners and a slew of parodies, and has kept in theme with the first movie Deadpool.

Shout out to the James Bond style opening sequence.

Vancouver was really well used in this movie. A lot of popular television series and movies are shot there, but it’s rarely as obvious as it was in Deadpool 2. I mainly bring this up because I recognised a lot of the locations and having lived there for a year I’m basically an expert.

I rate Ryan Reynolds – He may not be the first person to have co-written, produced and starred in a movie, but I give him his props. He bounced back well after a stream of sub-par movies, Green Lantern, and almost becoming stuck as a romance actor.

You can’t judge humor universally but personally – I didn’t find the movie very funny. I laughed here and there at the odd witty one liner or thinly veiled reference, but aside from that – nothing. Comparatively to the first movie this was a three out of ten on the funny scale.

It got to a point where I wanted to yell at Deadpool to just shut the fudge up!. Honestly he speaks so much and without interruption, which is both annoying and unrealistic. I found myself drifting during his unnecessarily long exposition after unnecessarily long exposition. We get it. It’s your movie – no one else needs to develop or speak. Fabulous.

There was nothing special about the plot of this movie and I later realised that no part of me was the least bit interested in how events would unfold. The storyline was a formula used and seen a hundred and one times before and the movie never deviated from it. If we’re honest, it was a husk for Deadpool to fill with his Deadpoolness.

It has been a few days since I saw Deadpool 2, and my conclusion now is the same as when I left the screening; it was just okay.

There was nothing particularly defining or standoutish to comment on.

Anyone going to see this movie is going for the undeniably unique character of Deadpool – and all I can say is that you certainly get that in abundance.