In National Lampoon’s Van Wilder (2002), he played a slacker. In Blade: Trinity (2004), Wesley Snipes, played a vampire hunter named Hannibal King. Reynolds played the main character in the popular romantic comedies Just Friends (2005), Definitely, Maybe (2008), and The Proposal (2009). In the psychological thriller Buried, which came out in 2010, he played a military contractor.

The next year, Reynolds played the title role in the superhero movie Green Lantern. The movie mainly got bad reviews from critics and didn’t do well at the box office, which hurt Reynolds’ career. In 2013, he was the voice of a garden snail in Turbo and a caveman in The Croods. Two years later, he played lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg in Woman in Gold and acted in the drama Mississippi Grind.

Ryan, in recent years

Reynolds’s career took a turn for the better when he played the antihero Deadpool in the 2016 superhero movie Deadpool, which he also produced. Surprisingly, critics liked it a lot, especially Reynolds’ irreverent comedy performance, and he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The movie was also a commercial success, making more than $782 million at the box office around the world.

He played the same character in the 2018 sequel Deadpool 2, which got mostly good reviews from critics and did well at the box office. It made over $785 million all over the world, making it the most successful R-rated movie ever. The following year, he provided Pikachu’s voice in the movie Detective Pikachu (2019).

In 2021, he gave back-to-back hits like Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, Deadpool and Korg React, Free Guy and Red Notice. His film The Adam Project came out in the year 2022 on Netflix. The story is about a pilot from the future who goes back in time and meets himself when he was younger.