Category: Deadpool movies

  • Deadpool (2016, Tim Miller)

    Deadpool never gets to be too much. The film quickly goes into flashback–narrated by lead Ryan Reynolds–but not before going through an elaborate, effects and humor filled action sequence. Maybe even two. But I think one. It takes Deadpool over an hour to get the viewer caught up on Reynolds’s origins as a superpowered, red…

  • Deadpool (2012, Tim Miller)

    Deadpool is an effects test by Miller to prove a feature is possible. It’s unclear, in terms of a narrative, if the ninety second short answers that question in the positive but it doesn’t much matter. These ninety seconds of a strange masked comic book character directly addressing the viewer are phenomenal. There’s a certain…