Saturday, 13 February 2016

Deadpool: a violent, sexy, funny masterpiece

I’ve just witnesses the marvel that is Deadpool. After dozens of trailers for assorted teen movies each featuring cheesy 80s tunes the rude, crude and misconstrued masterpiece struck the big screen like a meteor, with it’s tongue and cheek dialog, tarentino-esque violence, and gripping storyline DC have a lot of competition.

Actress Morena Baccarin managed to pull of the performance as a flirtatious ex-prostitute girlfriend Vanessa which is the polar opposite of her usual role as the innocent and pure Dr Tomkinson from Gotham proving she is a jack of all trades. Ed Skrein managed to muster the sadism and accent of his character as the British supervillain Ajax (AKA Francis) who reminded me of Spike from Buffy. Finally Ryan Renolds managed to capture the essence of the character that is Deadpool right off the bat with his gallows humour and in-your-face attitude to life leaving the audience hungry for more.

The combination of grit and wit left the plot dramatic and the humour poignant without taking away from the depressing moments, the plot humanised Deadpool just enough to encourage sympathy without making the movie and it’s cartoonish violence depressing. It hit on serious subjects such as cancer doubling them with fourth wall breaks and moments that will leave you yelling at the screen in iritation for him to “JUST KISS THE GIRL!”


Of course no Deadpool movie would be complete without sexual innuendo, bisexuality, pop culture references and the breaking of whatever shards of the fourth wall remain from the last time he visited. This movie is no exception with all of these things from the get-go and so much more, there are Xmen, explosions and steamy sex scenes.
In conclusion if you want a film with the humour of Paul, the swordsmanship and violence of Kill Bill and the timing of Borat then this is the film for you. The only question I’m left with is will DC’s Suicide squad manage to compete for the fiction crown? Only time will tell.



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