15th October, 2016.
You know …
I DO like to sit down with a movie, if I ever get the chance.
No, really.
If you’ve been paying attention for the past few years? You’d’ve probably noticed!
I tend … to go for … well …
All sorts of things, actually.
But usually don’t watch the Marvel franchise, or the X-Men films.
They’ve not usually grabbed my interest.
I’m not going to tell you they’re bad.
They’ve just never especially appealed, that’s all.
One that had, though?
Was the film I finally decided to catch, tonight.
Yep …
I’ve FINALLY sat down and watched the 2016, Tim Miller directed, Deadpool.
And, yes … this posts title really could be misinterpreted.
~≈Â≈~
Opening with a BIG fight scene, Deadpool introduces us to the eponymous hero, Deadpool, played by Ryan Reynolds: who, in between punches, tells us his back-story.
He is, in truth, Wade Wilson: a wisecracking mercenary, and former Special Forces soldier, making his money on the street by tracking down those who need … to be menaced.
Until one day … ? One day, he and fiancee, Vanessa — Morena Baccarin — find that he's has several forms of terminal Cancer.
Wade is resigned to his fate.
Until one day? He meets a mysterious man who offers to cure his cancer …
AND leave him with powers others could only dream of.
The only issue with this?
Is that the process will leave him at the mercy of a man called Ajax …
A man who seems to enjoy inflicting a little too much pain …
~≈Â≈~
Now …
I was going to use a different subtitle for this post: ‘How to Have Fun with Terminal Cancer … !’
But felt that MAY be going a little too far!
After all, it’s not an especially funny condition.
Deadpool, on the other hand?
Is hysterical: telling us a straight story …
Laced with enough comedy to make to turn it from a straight laced love story, to thriller with enough laughs, double entendres and outright sex gags to keep EVERYONE happy.
Go watch Deadpool.
You won’t be wasting your time.
Deadpool
★★★☆
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