The second coming...
Thoroughly enjoyable and worthy follow up to the first DP with some nice surprising twists and surprises I genuinely didnt expect as well as some moments that I've always wanted to see from an X-Men film that we had to wait until a DP sequel to get! (Obviously dont want to spoil anything here but yeah, some good stuff in the mix)
Plenty of the usual jabs and comic book mocking you come to expect from the man in red now with again a couple of genuine laugh out loud moments like the first, maybe not as consistent as before but more hits that misses.
The whole thing is slicker and with a few bigger ideas this time out but the main thing is they didnt lose focus of the heart and center of what made the first one so successful in the relationship between Wade and Vanessa. Maybe losing some of the rough edges takes a little off what made the first so unique but it also allows them to have more grander set pieces and better effects on the whole, a few ropey CGI moments apart.
The story is kept simple and straight forward and that really works in the DP world, over complicating things would lose the fun factor and it does take a lot longer for this one to get up and running compared to the first, which hit the ground running, this more takes its time to set it stall out but once it finds its legs it becomes unstoppable all the way to the end, kind of like a freight train, where as the first sort of come out the traps flying then ran out of steam.
Anyway, all the new characters are welcome additions, Domino and Cable fit in really well with the rest and hopefully we get more of them in the future but if not they at least give several great moments here and Reynolds bounces off Broling and Beetz with ease, I really dug Cable's tech and effects in his fight scenes too and Domino's powers were clever. There may be an argument for perhaps too many characters in this one as sometimes some old characters appear just because they were popular from the first and had to come back rather than because they served a great purpose, but its still fun to see them and Colossus was still the best of the bunch and looked even better this time.
Overall it was another fun blast with DP and after a slowish start I didnt want it to end. Similar to John Wick 2, this is very much of the same world but different enough to stand on its own legs (the Bond opening credits where a nice tough too

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, the first will always have that surprise factor and fresh feel that sequels cant really ever recreate but this sits nicely along the first and even in some ways ahead of it. The post credit scene is as good as the interwebs suggested, very funny.
Cant wait to see where they take DP3, assuming we get one that is and very glad to see the comic book movie world is 3 and 0 for the year.

8.5/10