DVD movie review

Watching movies is like looking in a mirror. You remember what you look like and when you look at someone or watch a movie, you perceive them or that movie as different to you. Deadpool (2016, USA) was one of those times for me. Though there may be relatable elements, there a few.

Wade Wilson’s life turns for the worse.  He’s called ‘merc with a mouth’ or in other words he’s a mercenary with a nasty sense of humor, but the former Special Operative’s carnage in this film is more focused on his personal vendettas.

This movie is a fantasy, but anyhow, he takes the hard knocks bad when he becomes the mutant Deadpool due to a rogue scientific experiment. It’s another movie where a genetically vulnerable human is tampered with and that explains much of his vengeance.

Deadpool is a disenchanting film, and even its clever plotting isn’t much compensation. It says it is inevitable to get mad at the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but is it saying more than that? You’d have to look close.

I don’t wish to be negative about one of the ‘films of the year’, in terms of those films that have made an indent at the cinema in 2016, but there is little balance to this movie.

However, a little compensation might be found if it may be more than stock primers of ‘amusing’, some would say ‘hilarious’ sex scenes, ‘intelligent’ graphic violence, and meaninglessness.

Deadpool’s actions and words are like watching a silly cartoon character, but at other times, he is sadistically brutal.

However, Deadpool may be more than a sense of misguided stylishness, sophistication and a parody of action movies and the 1980s, that tells us nothing and attempts to suck the life out of some classic songs from that era.

It may be more than effortless smart one-liners, but which are about as creative as bad writing with a rotten sense of style.

The so-called laughs are obvious. Some writers would write this in their sleep but never publish it.

What this movie seems to be about is so paper thin: when bad things happen, you get even with life and those people that made life worse.

There’s a certain level of human ‘sinsibility’ to getting one back or saying something ‘nasty’ to someone who treated you bad. But when it comes to acting it, like Deadpool does, it’s plain and simple not done.

I had to muster my compassion for him, but then again, there’s as far as you can go with a movie like this.

Life at the movies moment:

All the same, this movie may illuminate issues in our own lives and prompt us to be a better person. And if I read between the lines, the whole Deadpool scenario is saying if bad things happen to you, you should take life by the scruff of the neck and don’t give in. That is a better theme to consider, of choosing life, though the execution of this film would make you think otherwise.

Warnings—Rated R. Sex scenes and nudity, graphic violence, offensive language including profanity

Notes—Starring Ryan Reynolds (Wade/Deadpool), Morena Baccarin (as Wade’s girlfriend, Vanessa), Ed Skrein (Ajax), Director Tim Miller (feature film debut)