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DVD movie review<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watching movies is like looking in a mirror. You remember what you look like and when you look at someone or watch a movie, you perceive them or that movie as different to you. Deadpool<\/em> (2016, USA) was one of those times for me. Though there may be relatable elements, there a few.<\/p>\n

Wade Wilson\u2019s life turns for the worse.\u00a0 He\u2019s called \u2018merc with a mouth\u2019 or in other words he\u2019s a mercenary with a nasty sense of humor, but the former Special Operative\u2019s carnage in this film is more focused on his personal vendettas.<\/p>\n

This movie is a fantasy, but anyhow, he takes the hard knocks bad when he becomes the mutant Deadpool due to a rogue scientific experiment. It\u2019s another movie where a genetically vulnerable human is tampered with and that explains much of his vengeance.<\/p>\n

Deadpool<\/em> is a disenchanting film, and even its clever plotting isn\u2019t much compensation. It says it is inevitable to get mad at the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but is it saying more than that? You\u2019d have to look close.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wish to be negative about one of the \u2018films of the year\u2019, in terms of those films that have made an indent at the cinema in 2016, but there is little balance to this movie.<\/p>\n

However, a little compensation might be found if it may be more than stock primers of \u2018amusing\u2019, some would say \u2018hilarious\u2019 sex scenes, \u2018intelligent\u2019 graphic violence, and meaninglessness.<\/p>\n

Deadpool’s actions and words are like watching a silly cartoon character, but at other times, he is sadistically brutal.<\/p>\n

However, Deadpool<\/em> may be more than a sense of misguided stylishness, sophistication and a parody of action movies and the 1980s, that tells us nothing and attempts to suck the life out of some classic songs from that era.<\/p>\n

It may be more than effortless smart one-liners, but which are about as creative as bad writing with a rotten sense of style.<\/p>\n

The so-called laughs are obvious. Some writers would write this in their sleep but never publish it.<\/p>\n

What this movie seems to be about is so paper thin: when bad things happen, you get even with life and those people that made life worse.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certain level of human \u2018sinsibility\u2019 to getting one back or saying something \u2018nasty\u2019 to someone who treated you bad. But when it comes to acting it, like Deadpool does, it\u2019s plain and simple not done.<\/p>\n

I had to muster my compassion for him, but then again, there\u2019s as far as you can go with a movie like this.<\/p>\n

Life at the movies moment:<\/p>\n

All the same, this movie may illuminate issues in our own lives and prompt us to be a better person. And if I read between the lines, the whole Deadpool<\/em> scenario is saying if bad things happen to you, you should take life by the scruff of the neck and don\u2019t give in. That is a better theme to consider, of choosing life, though the execution of this film would make you think otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Warnings<\/strong>\u2014Rated R. Sex scenes and nudity, graphic violence, offensive language including profanity<\/p>\n

Notes<\/strong>\u2014Starring Ryan Reynolds (Wade\/Deadpool), Morena Baccarin (as Wade\u2019s girlfriend, Vanessa), Ed Skrein (Ajax), Director Tim Miller (feature film debut)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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