After a personal tragedy shatters his world, the wisecracking mercenary Wade Wilson finds himself trying to protect a volatile young mutant named Russell from Cable, a heavily armed cybernetic soldier from the future. To save the boy and stop the threat, Deadpool must assemble a derivative and ragtag team of mutants known as X-Force, discovering the true meaning of family along the way.
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Language |
English |
Country |
United States |
Premiere date |
May 18, 2018 |
Running time |
119 minutes |
Genre |
Action Comedy Adventure Sci-Fi |
Budget |
$110,000,000 |
Box Office |
$785,896,632 |
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Directed by |
David Leitch |
Produced by |
Simon Kinberg Ryan Reynolds Lauren Shuler Donner |
Written by |
Rhett Reese Paul Wernick Ryan Reynolds |
Music by |
Tyler Bates |
Cinematography |
Jonathan Sela |
Edited by |
Dirk Westervelt Craig Alpert Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir |
Production Co. |
20th Century Fox Marvel Entertainment Kinberg Genre Maximum Effort The Donners' Company |
Distributed by |
20th Century Fox |
Top Cast |
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Official Trailer |
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Movie Collection |
Movie Order: #02 in Deadpool Collection
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The Plot
Love, Loss, and a Skee-Ball Token
Two years after the events that introduced him to the world, Wade Wilson has fully embraced his role as a global mercenary, traveling the world to execute various criminals with his signature violent flair. Following a botched attempt to assassinate the head of a drug cartel operating within his home city, Wade returns to the sanctuary of his apartment to celebrate his anniversary with his girlfriend, Vanessa Carlysle. In a tender moment, Deadpool gifts Vanessa a skee-ball token—a sentimental keepsake referencing their very first date—and the couple agrees that the time has come to start a family together.
However, the domestic bliss is shattered later that night when the drug lord, having tracked Wade down, launches a surprise attack on their home. In the ensuing chaos, a bullet meant for Wade strikes Vanessa, killing her instantly. Consumed by rage and grief, Wade chases the criminal through the streets, eventually tackling him on the road just as a truck slams into them, killing the drug lord while Wade’s regenerative powers allow him to survive the impact, leaving him alone with his heartbreak.
Ashes to Ashes: The X-Man Trainee
Six weeks of mourning drive Wade to the brink of despair. Unable to cope with Vanessa's absence, he decides to end his life by rigging his apartment with several barrels of high-grade fuel. The resulting explosion obliterates the building, and during his temporary "death," Wade experiences a vision of Vanessa in the afterlife. She tells him that his "heart is not in the right place yet," a cryptic message that leaves him confused as he is pulled back to the land of the living. Colossus arrives at the smoldering ruins of the apartment, collects the dismembered pieces of Wade, and transports him back to the Xavier Mansion. There, Colossus attempts to recruit Deadpool into the X-Men once more, hoping the structure and purpose will help him navigate his profound grief.
The Incident at the Orphanage
Meanwhile, in a dystopian future, a cybernetic soldier named Cable stands amidst the bodies of his murdered family. Seeking revenge, he travels back in time to eliminate the killer before they ever turn down the dark path that leads to his family's death. In the present, Deadpool reluctantly agrees to join the X-Men as a trainee. Alongside Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, he responds to a standoff involving a young, unstable mutant named Russell Collins, who calls himself "Firefist." Russell creates intense heat from his hands and is threatening the staff of the orphanage where he lives.
While attempting to de-escalate the situation, Wade notices signs that the headmaster and staff have been physically abusing Russell. Outraged, Wade abandons the pacifist X-Men protocols and shoots one of the staff members dead. The unauthorized lethal force leads to the immediate arrest of both Deadpool and Russell. They are fitted with power-dampening collars that completely negate mutant abilities—including Deadpool’s healing factor. As a result, Wade’s cancer returns aggressively, beginning to kill him briskly as they are transported to the "Ice Box," an isolated high-security prison for mutant criminals.
The Ice Box and the Time Traveler
Upon his arrival in the present timeline, Cable encounters two locals and asks what year it is. When they mock his question, he incapacitates them with tazer shots, stealing their truck and beer. Later, in a motel room, he utilizes his cybernetic eye's advanced scanning and holographic capabilities to analyze his arsenal. Demonstrating superior engineering skills, he constructs a futuristic high-powered rifle using disparate, outdated parts available in this era.
Inside the Ice Box, Wade and Russell are incarcerated alongside dozens of other power-dampened mutants, including Black Tom Cassidy. Wade, weakened by cancer and believing death is his only way back to Vanessa, pushes Russell away. The prison is soon breached by Cable, who tears through the facility with the sole intention of killing Russell. In the chaos, Deadpool manages to throw himself and Cable out of the prison structure, leaving Russell behind in the Ice Box. During the fall, Wade has another vision of Vanessa, who helps him realize that his redemption lies in saving the boy he abandoned.
Assembling X-Force
Determined to intercept the prison transfer convoy that is moving Russell to a new location, Deadpool recruits a team of mutants (and one ordinary human) to aid him. Working with Weasel, he assembles a derivative team he christens "X-Force," consisting of the luck-manipulating Domino, Bedlam, Shatterstar, Zeitgeist, Vanisher, and Peter—a regular man who just saw the ad. The team launches an ambitious assault by parachuting from a plane, but the mission goes catastrophically wrong due to high winds. Most of the team dies in gruesome accidents upon landing; only Deadpool and the lucky Domino survive.
The Convoy and the Unlikely Alliance
Domino successfully infiltrates the convoy truck, but Cable arrives to continue his pursuit of Russell. A brutal fight ensues between Deadpool and Cable atop the moving vehicle. During the struggle, Russell manages to liberate a fellow prisoner, the Juggernaut, who he has befriended. The massive mutant devastates the transport truck, ripping it in half and escaping with Russell, intent on helping the boy exact revenge on the abusive orphanage headmaster.
Realizing the Juggernaut is loose, Cable ceases his attack on Deadpool and offers a truce. He explains that if Russell kills the headmaster, he will develop a taste for blood that eventually leads him to become the cold-blooded killer who murders Cable's family in the future. Deadpool agrees to help Cable stop Russell, but only on the condition that he gets thirty seconds to talk the boy down and change his mind before Cable takes the lethal shot.
Showdown at the Orphanage
Deadpool, Cable, and Domino arrive at the orphanage to intercept the pair, but they are quickly overpowered by the Juggernaut. Just as they are on the ropes, Colossus arrives to assist, engaging the Juggernaut in a titanic brawl that distracts the giant long enough for Wade and Cable to pursue Russell. They catch up to the boy just as he is about to incinerate the headmaster. True to his word, Wade tries to talk Russell down, pleading with him to choose a better path.
To prove his commitment and show Russell that he cares, Wade puts on a power-dampening collar, suppressing his healing factor and leaving him mortal. He offers himself in the headmaster's place. Cable, seeing Russell is not backing down, fires his gun. In a final act of sacrifice, Deadpool leaps in front of the bullet, taking a shot to the heart.
Redemption and Rewriting History
Wade undergoes an agonizingly long and dramatic death scene, finally succumbing to the wound. His sacrifice, however, succeeds in moving Russell; the boy loses his desire for revenge and spares the headmaster. In the future, the charred teddy bear Cable carries—a memento of his daughter—fades back to its pristine state, confirming his family has been saved. In the afterlife, Wade is finally reunited with Vanessa, but she tells him once again that it is not yet his time.
Filled with remorse for Wade's death, Cable utilizes the last charge on his time-travel device to jump back just moments before the final confrontation. This time, he discreetly places the skee-ball token Wade had given Vanessa over Wade’s heart. When the events replay and Wade takes the bullet for Russell, the token stops the round, saving his life. Russell still learns his lesson, and the timeline is corrected. As they leave, the abusive headmaster shouts anti-mutant slurs, only to be promptly run over by the taxi driver Dopinder.
Cleaning Up the Timeline
During the mid-credits, Deadpool enlists Negasonic Teenage Warhead and her girlfriend, Yukio, to repair Cable’s time-travel device. With the device operational, Wade embarks on a rogue mission to "fix" various timelines. He travels back to save Vanessa from the gunman and rescues Peter from his parachuting death. He then jumps further back to kill the mute, weaponized version of Deadpool from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and finally, he travels to our reality to shoot actor Ryan Reynolds in the head just as he finishes reading the script for the Green Lantern film, preventing that career mistake from ever happening.
