Film
Deadpool 2
- Director
- David Leitch
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 119 mins
2016’s $58 million-budgeted Deadpool smashed numerous box office records and took $783 million at the box office, so it was inevitable that profane, wise-cracking, fourth wall-breaking bad boy superhero Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) would be back.
Technically the 11th film in the X-Men series, Deadpool 2 offers the nerd undergarment-soilingly exciting prospect of the first screen appearance of the X-Force. This is a militant X-Men offshoot superhero team founded by Deadpool to protect a young mutant from time-travelling soldier Cable (Josh Brolin). Better get used to him, because it’s been reported that Brolin has signed up to play the Cable guy in three more films, suggesting that an X-Force offshoot series will be along soon. And if Disney successfully swallows up 21st Century Fox, it seems likely that the X-Men will be subsumed into the increasingly unwieldy Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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