Movie Review: Deadpool & Wolverine

If someone interviews any number of moviegoers leaving the movie "Deadpool & Wolverine" and asks, "So what was this movie about?" - no one would be able to answer this question. There is no evidence of a movie here, just a series of events, action scenes, fight scenes, time travel, insane explanations, sarcastic dialogue from Deadpool, played by Ryan Reynolds, and non-stop inexplicable inanity. It is hard to understand why the screenwriters and director decided to make a Marvel movie this off-the-wall crazy, with no real plot or screenplay. What is the point of this?

The most important part of making a new Marvel superhero sequel is to create a good enough film, with enough box office so that another one can be made in the future. Recent Marvel releases, including the horrendous, "Madam Web" (2024) and "The Marvels" (2023) are great examples of exactly how not to make a superhero movie. These two very bad films guaranteed that there would never be a sequel, resulting in many millions of potential movie revenue lost. In the case of this new Marvel movie, there were 3 screenwriters, including Ryan Reynolds. It seemed that throughout these two hours, none of the 3 writers knew or even cared what the other writer was creating. These entire two hours were slapped together without any regard or respect for the audience with the ongoing idea that special effects can fix any bad action movie.

The addition of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine might have been an attempt to save the box office for what would have been reviewed as a bad Deadpool sequel, once production money was spent and they realized this was going to be a badly reviewed movie. We have all seen this tactic before with highly marketed movies, where they think they can add bankable stars to the cast to drum up the box office after the bad reviews are released. This movie includes Wesley Snipes as Blade, Jennifer Garner as Electra, and Channing Tatum as a new Marvel character Gambit, who throws playing cards as weapons. Their presence along with Jackman is not enough to fix all that is wrong with this film.

There are a few laughs with the non-stop sarcastic comments from Ryan Reynolds, but not nearly enough to rescue an overly long, boring, and crazy Deadpool sequel.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this movie are a way too high 81%, with my rating 68% only because of some of the action sequences.