Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T. J. Miller, Gina Carano, Stefan Kapicic, Brianna Hildebrand

Direction: Tim Miller

Produced: Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, Lauren Shuler Donner

Written: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick

Genre: Action

Duration: 108 Mins

After an overload of either half-baked ensemble superheroes or origin stories with angsty character moments comes the Merc with a Mouth. Before Deadpool became all kinds of awesome (a description he would abide by), the anti-hero was Wade Wilson, a mercenary. Essentially, a bad guy who goes on to take down worse guys.

Deadpool also takes down big budget, standard superhero/action movie tropes with self-parodying opening titles featuring every cliché in every high octane movie - "Some Douchebag's Film", Starring "God's Perfect Idiot", "A Hot Chick". You get the drift. Deadpool is delightfully subversive that way. Whether it's Wade's relationship with Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), his banter with Ajax (Ed Skrein) or even his teaming up with mutants Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead where he quips about the lack of film budget to include the better known X-Men.

The entire film is driven by wisecracks and saucy exchanges. Look closely and there is a paper-thin plot. Hero gets cancer. Hero gets disfigured. Hero gets a suit. Hero gets revenge. Hero also gets the girl. A standard plotline is bolstered up by a fantastic, footloose performance by Ryan Reynolds and the writing (the writers being credited as The Real Heroes Here).

Deadpool is more about the one-liners than insane action set-pieces. Somehow, it manages to take an unsavoury, inappropriate leading man and make an outing more interesting without blatantly catering to an eagerly awaiting fandom just yet. Speaking of which... there is a post-credits scene which is very Deadpool. You'll know it when you see it.

Raunchy, racy and rapid-fire, Deadpool is everything you didn't know you wanted in a super anti-hero film. An absolute weekend watch for the big screen. Pity that the censors play spoilsport and unevenly so.