The finished movie is still somehow worse than the leaked, CGI-less workprint, which is an accomplishment in and of itself.

All I could think, towards the end, was "poor fucking Taylor Kitsch." I know he hasn't been hurting for roles in the last 15 years, but **damn** he just could not catch a break with roles he took in movies that could've/should've been huge. Gambit in one of _the_ worst X-Men movies ever made, the titular John Carter from a sci-fi classic that would get dumped in theaters without any of Disney's massive advertising budget, giving one of his greatest career performances not attached to Friday Night Lights in the first season of True Detective that _wasn't_ **the** first season of True Detective. Dude is such a great actor, but his post-Friday Night Lights career has seen his talents wasted on projects that wouldn't help his career.

And my first thought right as he caught up to [spoiler]all the kids being rescued by Xavier[/spoiler] was: "Sorry, you're too late, Gambit. Back to the "incredibly popular/powerful mutant overshadowed by Wolverine" pile, just like Cyclops."

Also, _how_ do you cast Ryan Reynolds -- one of the most well-known mouthy and sarcastic actors of the time -- as one of _the_ mouthiest and sarcastic mutants in the X-Men canon only to sew his fucking mouth shut?

Casting Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson was about the _only_ thing right about this movie. Because it at least it made him want to give Deadpool the adaptation the character deserved. Thank fuck that Reynolds didn't care _that_ much about Hal Jordan.