15 Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
11. Deadpool
Ranking: #1
Earnings: $783,112,979
Deadpool, the genre-breaking, rule-defying and gleefully rude superhero comedy is the highest grossing R-rated film ever. Unfortunately,it's not one of the best R-rated box office smashes.
Fans don't want to admit this, but Deadpool is actually rather average and it's far, far away from the game-changer it was immediately hailed as. Since there had already been Kick-Ass, which is a far more subversive, adult and clever movie, only a few years earlier, it's hard to see quite why everyone was so excited about this purely because it had an R-rating.
Deadpool is a good-enough film when you take away the excessive hype. It's got Ryan Reynolds on brilliant form, there are some amazing jokes, the action is fun and it can be incredibly clever. The trouble with Deadpool is that it doesn't do this consistently, with the irritating non-linear plot structure and uneven pacing weighing it down.
As well as this, take away the R-rating and Deadpool is quite familiar, since the plot, complete with a terrible villain that puts the MCU's weaker villains to shame, is pure superhero cliche. It's good fun but is unlikely to endure well in the future.