The film has received mixed scores from critics The first reviews for Marvel’s latest outing, Deadpool and Wolverine are in – and the film has divided critics. The latest movie in the franchise sees Ryan Reynolds resume the role of Deadpool while being joined by Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. The film is directed by Shawn Levy and is released in UK cinemas later this week (July 26).
At the time of writing, the film is scoring a mediocre average of 54 on Metacritic from 45 reviews but is faring better on Rotten Tomatoes where the score is a higher 80 per cent from 140 reviews. In a middling review, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw gave the film three stars. Bradshaw wrote: “It cheerfully (if sheepishly) makes mock of the MCU’s cosmic timeline shenanigans which permit characters to be brought back to life and even does loads of very tiresome corporate in-jokes about Disney taking over Fox, presumably on the basis that civilians care as much about this as the Hollywood combatants.
Reynolds is often funny, sometimes very funny, periodically entirely unbearable, often a weird and interesting mix of the three.” The Hollywood Reporter ’s David Rooney offered a similarly mixed review, writing: “As bountiful as the action scenes are here, the jokes are the sturdiest part of Deadpool & Wolverine. That’s because the plot is a lumpy stew of familiar elements, given minimal narrative clarity despite the reams of expository technobabble spouted by Matthew Macfadyen’s Mr.
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