Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Deadpool’

Written by Scott Edwards

Unlike the rest of the world, I missed seeing Deadpool in the theaters when it came out. Sometimes people get busy and forget about movies, well, I am no different from those people since it happened to me. Thank goodness for the marvel of DVD and Blu-Ray and that they can be produced and released within months, unlike VHS copies that almost took a year to hit the shelves after a movie came out back in the day. I just know that I was a little skeptical when I went to buy this, despite my friends telling me it was worth it and I’m glad I believed them. Because this movie is just a joy and it is one I like to pop in often, since it knows how to put a smile on my face.

Wade Wilson is a mercenary for hire, but he is not only in it for the money, he is in it to do the right thing. After helping out on a bleeding-heart assignment, Wade returns to the bar where mercenaries like himself show up to get jobs. With their running Dead Pool to be bet on, Wade is trying everything in his power to win the jackpot, but the fights only leave the other participants bloodied up, not dead. When he is ready to leave, he gets an invite from a working girl to have all of his dreams come true, little do either of them know what that will entail.

Wade and Vanessa find common ground on how their relationship will work and not being able to make it through any holiday without celebrating properly, Wade thinks it is time to pop the question. Asking Vanessa to marry him, of course she says yes, but the bliss is short lived when Wade finds out he has cancer. Trying everything within their power to get him cured, there is only one option on the table that might work as a recruiter offers him a second chance at life. Arriving at a secret facility where superheroes are made, Wade gets injected with a serum that will activate his mutant powers, but his body must activate these powers on its own and the only way that can happen is to be pushed to the brink of dying.

After receiving his normal beatings, the doctor, Ajax knows that there is only one sure way to activate the serum inside of Wade, by taking his breath away. Sucking all of his air out of a hyperbaric chamber, Wade’s mutation comes alive, but at a cost as his body reacts violently to the lack of oxygen. Being pitted and scarred from head to toe, Wade choses his next assignment very carefully, to exact revenge on the man that has taken his good looks, thus his life away from him. Being able to escape the facility, Wade takes to the streets to find Ajax once again and get his rugged good looks back so he can face the love of his life without fear. But the road is a long and hard one as nobody wants to give up the whereabouts of Ajax, much less talk to the circus freak that is in front of them.  Leaving a trail of blood in his wake, Wade must face more than the bad guys he has grown accustomed to facing, but also fellow mutants, some of them good, some of them bad and some of them metal. 

When the first trailer to this movie was leaked way back when, I thought that it was just a joke, but now, well, Deadpool might have his own little franchise. I remember how everybody thought that the biggest problem in this movie would be how Deadpool could break the ‘forth wall’, and how his ‘inner voice’ would work, well, without being able to see his mouth, it seemed to flow just fine. With plenty of sex, violence, blood (oh the blood) and naughty language, the Merc with a Mouth has gained some huge fanfare from me. I must admit that the soundtrack also blew me away and that rarely happens to me these days as nobody likes to put 'Angel of the Morning' in movies anymore. This was just a joy-gasm for fans of all ages, especially if you have a very sick sense of humor and for a lover of f*ing horror movies like me, the blood, oh, the blood was glorious. This may require a couple more viewings on my part, and that does not happen for many movies for me these days. Thank you Ryan Reynolds for getting that hit we have been waiting for and if I find out T.J. Miller had anything to do with the proposal scene, we may need to have some words, I have been doing it that way for years, before it was hip.

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