Well this actually lived up to the hype for me. Disney/Marvel are very successful because they make their movies for everyone, which is great, but when you make something for for everyone, eventually you make it for no one.
This film knows it's audience and delivers a great movie for anyone who was excited about a proper Deadpool film. They make great use of the R rating and it's a hard R. The jokes, the violence, the action, it's all extremely well written and executed.
When the audience is in on it, Ryan Reynolds is heavily in on it, a certain FOX megastar is an extremely good sport about it and in on it, and the executives who approved so many many little things put in it are in on it, you end up with a fantastic stand alone superhero film like Kickass and Dredd years before that takes several risks and delivers something new to the genre.
What really surprised me, and that's all this movie does, is actually deliver a ton of character between the jokes. I felt for Wade Wilson. I bought into the love story. Yes there is one. I genuinely hated the villain, who could have been very generic in anything else, but they made me care and I wanted Deadpool to kick his ass.
It's a perfect film for Deadpool fans. It's weird, I want to give this even a higher rating, because it had everything it should have. I don't know what else it could have done. It's a very small film too. And they can do so much more for the sequels.
I'm just going to rate it as a Perfect Deadpool movie. The opening credits, end credits, I don't know how, but they even made those very entertaining.
