On the Xavier’s timing issue – It would make sense that the good Professor would have known about the installation for a while at this point. That said, without things like the X-Men and/or Magneto to help him out, he couldn’t have just busted in and gotten them free. Well, he could have, but that would involve completely overriding someone’s brain (or several someones) and especially at the time of the movie, his character just refused to do things like that.

On the Deadpool issue, I thought the did it reasonably well. Sure the added powers were a bit goofy, but being tortured and experimented on is well within his history and Ryan Reynolds did a fantastic job of making him quirky and nearly amoral at the beginning. Heck, all that was missing was him randomly stabbing one of his friends over potato chips :-)

I also had an issue with Gambit’s interruption of the Wolverine/Sabertooth fight. I have no issue with Gambit picking a fight (after all, isn’t that the way all good guys are introduced? by fighting other good guys before knowing they’re good?). My issue is that Gambit jumped into it before letting Wolverine finish off Sabertooth. The Gambit I know and love would have waited that extra 10 seconds and “played a better hand”. I don’t mean to complain all too much, that one moment just made me raise an eyebrow at the writers a bit.

I can’t get over how bad they ruined Deadpool, such promise. Kudos Marvel

Wolverine picks Sable up from the ground.
Stryker shoots wolverine, Sable Falls to the ground,
Stryker shoots again, knocks wolverine back,
Wolverine lunges toward Stryker,
Stryker empties the entire clip into wolverine.
Last bullet goes through his eye, CGI effects shows the bullet tearing through his eye and resting in his brain
Wolverine lies on the ground next to Silver Sable. Stryker walks over to Wolverine gun at the ready
Silver sable grabs his leg and tells him to point the gun at his head and pull the trigger
Stryker pulls the trigger and gun clicks, frusted sable tells him to walk until his feet bleed
Stryker walks off scene and Sable dies
Gambit comes in checks wolverine’s pulse,
checks Sable pulse
Wolverine begins to move and stands up, eye heals over
Gambit: “Look who just came back from the dead”
Wolverine looks confused unable to talk mutters “from the dead”
Gambit looks perplexed and says “Lets get you to a hosiptial mona-me”
As gambit reaches towards wolverine Wolverine backs up and extends claws and starts to growl
Gambits steps back and eyes and stick glowing “Easy there ”
Wolverine: struggles to talk, mutters “…Easy…”
Gambit stares back and reaches into his jacket
Wolverine sees Gambit reaching and lunges toward gambit
Gambit spins out of the way and runs off while throwing glowing cards in the air behind him as he leaves
Wolveine runs after but is blown off his feet from cards
Wolverine shakes it off and gets up. Gambit is no where to be seen
Looks at Sable for a while trying to see who she is, confused look on his face
Runs off into woods claws drawn.

Go to Stryker walking. Cue Stryker scene

End Credit roll by, Dead pool head seen, eyes open and shh.
Deadpool picks up head and says “Hey look fellas this one talks”
Looks down and sees sworded arm, “and comes with a free prize”
“How come you guys didn’t come with prizes”
Deadpool toses head into netted bag full of weapon XI heads.
Deadpool walks off

(I saw the Japan ending… Lame)

Perhaps Xavier was curious when he found a bunch of mutants gathered at a nuclear power plant.

True. Maybe Xavier origin story will be next or did the X-men tril already cover that.

“The film should stand on its own — you should not NEED supplement material to understand it.”
Agreed.