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Gibson plays Mercer Bey, known as “OG Merc” to his old compatriots in the hood.

It’s been six years since the “merc with a mouth” was on the big screen in “Deadpool 2” in 2018, and since then, there have been corporate mergers and acquisitions that left star Ryan Reynolds’ signature character adrift with questions about his future.

This goes back to the comics and what happens when you put a merc with a mouth alongside a taciturn, angry, Wolverine.

Merc is a Black man in a very white place, a fact that the movie deals with bluntly, and also subtly.

Money Merc, a hip-hop artist sensitively played by the real-life rapper Freddie Gibbs, struggles with a career crisis specific to his personality and profession that is also likely to resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped, overwhelmed or just plain tired out by work.