Movie of the Week: Deadpool

We've missed several weeks at the cinema. There's been little to attract us for almost a month, but this week we thought we'd give Deadpool a go.

Starting in the middle and covering the origin of Deadpool in flashback, this is a riot of action, quips, gore and bad language. Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is a former Special Forces operative with a twisted sense of humour who's been hiring out as a mercenary.He gets into a relationship (Morena Baccarin looking even younger than she did in Firefly) but his world comes crashing down when he's diagnosed with terminal cancer. To save his life he signs up to a programme to create super-soldiers, finding out too late that it involves being tortured by evil scientist Ajax (Ed Skrein). He's left disfigured, but invulnerable. Believing he can't go back to his girlfriend he hunts Ajax to get revenge. With help from mutant allies Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), Deadpool uses his new skills to hunt down the man who nearly destroyed his life, but Ajax is hunting him, too.

Taken at face value this is tongue-in-cheek fun, taking time to laugh at itself, but it's neither deep nor meaningful. Worth a trip to the cinema on a wet Wednesday afternoon.