Sunday, April 3, 2016

Spoilers Ahead! Deadpool



If Cards against Humanity was a person, it would be Deadpool: Funny in all the wrong ways, extremely inappropriate, and fully aware of both of these. 

The movie opens with Deadpool/Wade Wilson riding in a taxi to a freeway overpass, where he sits waiting for a convoy of black vehicles. Once they come into sight, he allows himself to fall of the overpass, through the sunroof of the lead car, where he begins fight it’s passengers, who are group of mercenaries. During the fight it is revealed that Deadpool has accelerated healing, bullet wounds heal in seconds. Once the mercenaries have been beaten, Deadpool interrogates his target, Francis. He wants Francis to fix what he has done to him (Wade). While Wade will survive and heal from basically anything thanks to the experiments Francis performed on him, Wade’s cancer cells have spread over Every inch of his body, leaving him looking like Freddy Krueger. During his interegation, two Xmen arrive: Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead. During the confrontation, Francis escsapes and Colossus tries to bring Deadpool in by handcuffing Wade to himself. Wade escapes by cutting off his hand and by jumping into a passing garbage truck, where he goes into a flashback showing us how he got to where he was.  

After Francis returns to his base, he tells his sidekick/employee that now he knows who has been disrupting their operations (Wade).  To get back at Deadpool, Francis goes after the woman Wade loves, his ex-girlfriend Vanessa. Wade convinces Colossus and Negasonic to help him, and the trio take a cab to the scrapyard. While Colossus and Negasonic battle Angel Dust and several soldiers, Wade fights his way through Ajax's henchmen, and eventually engages him. After Angel Dust defeats Colossus, Negasonic attacks her, but accidentally destroys the equipment holding the helicarrier upright. As the helicarrier tips over, Colossus carries Negasonic and Angel Dust to safety, while Wade saves Vanessa. Ajax survives and attacks Wade, but is subdued and reveals there is no cure for Wade's disfigurement. Despite objections from Colossus, Wade kills Ajax. Vanessa is angered that Wade left her, but still loves him. She accepts him, and they reconcile by kissing.

The film  itself was amazingly shot and unlike the last film Deadpool was in (Wolverine: origins) they stuck very closely to the source material. I usually don't like it when films tell large parts of the story through flashbacks but it works very well in this. Full of inappropriate humor and references, it is a great film.

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