Rating: 8.1/10
Director: Tim Miller
Writer: Rob Liefeld (character), Fabian Nicieza (character), Rhett Reese (screenplay), Paul Wernick (screenplay)
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Karan Soni, Ed Skrein, Michael Benyaer
Runtime: 108 min
Rated: R
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 12 Feb 2016
Synopsis: This is the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
The opening scene shows Wade Wilson, the superhero Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) in a cab, bored in the backseat. He slides up front to chat with the cabbie, Dopinder (Karan Soni). Deadpool asks Dopinder about a picture of a girl he has in his car, and Dopinder says she was his girlfriend until he lost her to his cousin. Dopinder then takes Deadpool to the middle of a bridge, and Deadpool stiffs the man for cab fare.
Deadpool waits on top of a bridge for his targets, but first addresses the audience and jokes about fondling Wolverine’s balls to get his own movie. He then spots a group of vans arriving, and he jumps into one of the men before beating up of all the thugs in the van, causing an accident that kills other villains. Deadpool’s main target is Ajax (Ed Skrein), the man that gave him his powers and also horribly disfigured him. The vans all come crashing to the end of the bridge, where one thug’s head is slice off with a chain, and another one gets gorily splattered against a sign on the highway.
At Xavier’s School For Gifted Youngsters, Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) sees the chaos unfolding on the news and calls Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) to join him in getting Deadpool.
Ajax attacks Deadpool once again until the latter has him pinned down. Deadpool holds his gun at Ajax’s head and demands that he fix his face, but Ajax laughs and says there was never a cure for that. Deadpool is ready to kill Ajax until Colossus steps in and starts to make a big speech on making the hero’s decision to spare his enemy’s life. Deadpool gets tired of the speech and he just shoots Ajax in the head, making Colossus puke. Afterwards, Deadpool finally confronts Vanessa and apologizes for abandoning her. She removes his mask to see his face, but he is wearing a cut-out of Hugh Jackman’s face. She sees his real face and says she will eventually get used to it. They kiss, and Deadpool signs off as the movie ends.
After the end credits, Deadpool appears in his bathrobe telling the audience to leave for the movie is over (a homage to the final shot of ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’). However, he comes back and says that the studio is trying to get Cable to be in a sequel. Deadpool walks away, but then pops his head out to go “Chicka-chicka!”
