8 Little Known Tics That Make Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool Awesome

4. His Cheeky Persona Compensates For Budgetary Constraints

A movie can get away with a lot of things if it manages to charm the pants off the audience, and perhaps no movie in recent memory is better evidence of that than the first Deadpool.

With its modest $58 million budget, the original film didn't have anywhere near the resources of an MCU or DCEU movie, yet the self-aware vivacity of Reynolds' performance filled much of the void regardless.

Reynolds' charm offensive was so damn strong he was able to creatively work around many of the production constraints. For starters, voiceover was used far more than originally planned in order to cut down on filmed expository dialogue, and it goes without saying that Deadpool's sarcastic narration is one of the strongest aspects of both movies.

The first movie's gag about the lack of X-Men in the film also saw Reynolds taking a not-so-jokey jab at the film's limited resources, and best of all, Deadpool forgetting his guns in the film's climax was due to the originally planned shootout finale being deemed too expensive.

Precious few movies could get away with having their hero forget to bring his guns to a gunfight, but because Reynolds plays the part with just enough wink-wink absurdity while not quite pushing it fully over the edge, he single-handedly props the film up through some potentially rough patches.