3) The Action Isn’t Up To The MCU’s Best
There’s a lot about Deadpool that’s truly memorable – the offbeat one-liners, the retro pop soundtrack, the multiple tongue-in-cheek references to Hugh Jackman – but its action sequences don’t pass muster in nearly the same way.
The film is refreshingly focused on the main character, so the action mostly takes a back seat to more dramatic or comedic scenes. But when the action does come, it is – like Miller’s directing on the whole – fairly unremarkable.
The highway shootout is imaginatively conceived, with Deadpool forced to take out multiple enemies with just a handful of bullets, but the execution is less cinematic, more direct-to-video. The climax in particular wouldn’t look out of place in a generic beat-’em-up.
Marvel has produced plenty of original action scenes – just last year it gave us the rip-roaring Ultron opening smackdown, and Ant-Man‘s train-set tussle – that make Deadpool‘s appear lesser in comparison.