Deadpool

Released: February 12, 2016

Starring: Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/ Deadpool
Ed Skrein as Ajax
Morena Baccarin as Vanessa

Directed by: Tim Mller

Written by: Rhett Resse and Paul Wernick Based off of the Deadpool Comics


Wade is an ex-soldier for hire to "take care" of people. He is working his way through life, and occasionally betting in the dead pool at his favorite bar, when he meets a prostitute named Vanessa. They fall in love, move in together, and Wade proposed. This seemingly happy, blissful moment turns catastrophic very quickly. Wade collapses and is taken to the hospital to find out he has cancer. All starts to seem lost when Wade is given a card from a man who says that he can get him the help that he needs. Wade finally agrees to undergo this experimental treatment and lease Vanessa in the middle of the night totally clueless. When at the treatment facility, Wade meets Ajax and learns that the treatment is going to give people powers and he will not be able to leave. He is tortured for weeks to undergo this "change" and when he does he has a plan to escape. After he is free he soon learns that he can't actually die, that he can now regenerate. Because he was forced to become this monster he vows his revenge on Ajax and the next year is spent hunting him down to get his revenge. In the process of all of this he is trying to Vanessa to get her back and figure out what his next move will be after Ajax is dead.



This move was very funny in a delightfully dark way. Ryan Reynolds  was born to play this role is nothing else! He was wonderfully sarcastic throughout the whole thing. However, I think that this movie did so well was because, not only did Ryan Reynolds steal the show and the comics are what got most people excited about it, but it was because I think Wade Wilson did what most of us would do in the type of situation that he was in. No, not leave everyone behind and exact revenge, but he got angry. He got angry to the point of where nothing else seemed to matter. He reacted to the news of cancer in the same way I my gut would want me to do. Run. Run away don't put anyone else through this misery it will be easier on you if I left. That is how I would feel. Wade reacts that same way most people would initially do when it comes to that type of news. I mean Wade really is just an average person when all of this came upon him. He was not trying to be a "hero" or a "somebody". I mean think about it would Captain America would do or say if he were in Wade shoes? Steve Rogers always wanted to be a type of hero and he would have never thought about running. Again, Steve Rogers does not have the spirit of an average human being.  Yes, Deadpool is not your average, take care of the world superhero, actually he says that he is not really a hero to begin with. He is just angry. Wade Wilson story is the first Marvel movie that I have seen where the "hero" takes on anger and makes him slightly crazy. It also shows just how the most random people come into your life to help you out.