In a promotional push for its theatrical release on February 12th, 20th Century Fox premiered a new DEADPOOL “Superb Owl” TV spot during yesterday’s Superbowl 50! The clip shows Deadpool as he expresses some rage towards helpless goons and the villainous Ajax and Angel Dust, who put his “future baby mama,” Vanessa Carlysle, in harms way. Assisted by Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, he quickly learns that having some help from the X-Men isn’t such a bad thing.
Directed by Tim Miller and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film stars Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson, Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle, Ed Skrein as the villainous Ajax, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Stefan Kapicic as Colossus, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al and T.J. Miller as Weasel.
Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, ‘Deadpool’ tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
The film was good, but somehow lacked something the other 7 X-films had. I cannot exactly say what it was, but this is the first time I left the Theater watching a X-themed film without being overwhelmed how great it was (yes, I even thought X3 and ORIGINS were awesome).
I liked how this film took a sidestep from the big Things going on in the X-Films (pretty much like THE WOLVERINE did) and went to Show a small Story.
The gags and jokes were great but somehow not as frequent as I expected.
The Action was good, the Music was spot on.