Oscars 2017: 20 Predicted Best Film Nominees Ranked Worst To Best

Let's get this straight; Deadpool is a remarkable achievement. It's all a lot more about context rather than immediacy of the finished product though: in retrospect, it shouldn't have been made - it was built on the rocky foundation of Ryan Reynolds playing a mangled version of the character in a terrible film. Sure, the comic book character himself has his fans, but Hollywood hasn't done fourth wall breaking superheroes, it's only one R Rated superhero movies mostly poorly and the idea of combining the two was ludicrous.

That the final product is even watchable is astounding, but that Reynolds managed to capture the character so perfectly without surrendering proximity to the source is a downright miracle. It's just a shame that the rest of the film - the writing, the other heroic characters, the mediocre, beige villains and the occasionally wayward directing doesn't quite live up to the central performance.

Yes, it's great fun and it's raunchy and disobedient in a delightful sort of way, but it's absolutely not an Oscar worthy thing at all beyond the slight chance that Reynolds might defy all conventional wisdom and get an Oscar nod.