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movie review - Deadpool and Wolverine

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a movie about a washed-up one-time semi-heroic character with a mutant healing ability that lets him bounce back all but immediately from almost any injury. He's been ditched by his girl because he can't make anything of himself, and he's been rejected from a real super-hero outfit because a) he's not actually heroic, b) he insults the hiring manager freely during the interview, and c) he has nothing like the abilities of the actual super-heroes.

Into this wretched life comes a man who runs an agency responsible for temporal continuity. He expects he'll soon have to prune our hero's timeline from existence, but offers our man a job to try to save the existence. The rest of the movie makes about as much sense as that. It's one side-quest nested in another for the next ninety minutes. It's funny, but it's also the third in a series and aside from various cameos and fan-service scenes, the plot makes no real contribution to the story.

Not recommended.