You know, where a hero guest stars in another's story to help out, not where a team gets formed to. But, eventually the movie pays off in a big action finale that might be cinema's first superhero teamup. Once the device is gone, we're left with that thin line of story, and Reynolds' banter, though great, can't quite keep it aloft on its own. Anti-hero loses the girl (or so he thinks), anti-hero gains a hankering for some old fashioned, screaming, bloody revenge against the guy who tortured the superpowers into him (Ed Skrein). Anti-hero gets cancer, anti-hero gets superpowers that cure his cancer. The deft hopping between the framing device and the backstory in the early parts of the film also disguise the fact that Deadpool's plot is pretty thin on the ground.Īnti-hero (Ryan Reynolds) meets girl (Morena Baccarin). It's at this point that it becomes the basic superhero action movie that its own opening credits decry as being tired with its hero, its "British villain," its "CGI character" and its teenage sidekick. There are a few places where Deadpool becomes the very thing it's trying to make fun of About halfway through the film, however, not even the initial framing sequence can hold off the standard beats of the superhuman origin story, and Deadpool takes a long dive into backstory.
Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick use many elements from that proof-of-concept clip as a clever framing device that allows them to snap back to a big, complicated action sequence before you have time to notice that the exposition has started getting predictable. Deadpool pulls this trick twice - the first time in a hilarious opening credits sequence that calls out every role in the movie for being a tired trope - and makes a familiar action movie gimmick seem fresh and exciting. We're all familiar with movies that set up the outcome of a fight before it happens in order to impress the audience with the cleverness of its hero. That's all the better for appreciating just how good the heroes are at kicking ass. It's clear and rhythmic, giving the viewer enough time to properly interpret what's happening. As you might expect from a movie that only escaped four years of languishing in pre-production purgatory after a leaked proof-of-concept action sequence took the Internet by storm, Deadpool's action is one of its best qualities.
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