Movie Review | Suicide Squad (Lights, Camera, Action!)

Although I'm one of those very few who enjoyed Man of Steel and Batman v Superman (although even I could see that they could be much better), this was a boring BORING comic book movie.

I certainly know what you mean about the lack of connection between the characters. It's the opposite of what Marvel did with Guardians of the Galaxy.

Just to be clear, when I wrote ''In fact, at one point they actually sit down at a bar and decide that 'Hey, you know what, maybe we're just evil.''', I didn't intend to make it seem like a quote, because none of the characters said that. It's just the central idea of that scene, if I remember it correctly.

I should watch the movie again just to find exactly the right words, but here are some random thoughts.

​From what I remember of the movie - which is to say, very little - it just didn't give its characters much to do, and when they did have something to do, it was overly sterile in its execution and could be seen coming from a mile away. Will Smith telling an unmotivated Diablo to 'show him something', followed by Diablo setting a group of enemies on fire from a distance, with no apparent danger to the squad… these kinds of situations really dragged the movie down. The character Katana did nothing throughout the movie except cut two or three enemies down, usually by cleaving their heads - most of which was done in the background (because we don't want it to be too gory or exciting, no!).
 
I really expected the Suicide Squad to actually be an effed-up group trying to be a team and initially failing but finding something in common. Hell, for all I care they could be an amazing team from the get-go but do damage to each other in the end, sort of explaining why they're bad guys in the first place. It just felt like the movie even lacked a core theme or a message to send. Instead, it just feels… edgy. I would define edgy as simple-mindedly and transparently trying to appear tough or 'cool', for the sake of being provocative and/or offensive. That's at least one of this movie's problems: it's so inoffensive and so unprovocative that it needs to outwardly pretend that it is.

Basically what I'm saying is, the movie's got a lot of issues, lol.

( Edited 08.10.2016 00:39 by Leo Epema )

The two core characters were Will Smith and Margot Robbie...everyone else seemed to take a back seat. I have to admit that Harley Quinn was funnier than expected. I thought the character would be really annoying. Sure, her motivation for love The Joker isn't really explained, other than "she didn't fix his mind, her mind instead got warped"...but her lines raised a few more smiles than I thought would be the case.

The story was a load of nonsense, though. My wife kept saying to me "Why is there a witch? Who is she? Where did she come from?" Then there was the whole thing of the director keeping the witch's heart safely under lock and key (at first, obviously), yet randomly leaving out an unguarded statue with the witch's brother inside... Someone SO careful about controlling everything and predicting every eventuality has a massive lapse in concentration and leaves such an important object just sat on a shelf? No, I don't think so. That's just fudging the storyline to concoct the main bad guy (who actually played second fiddle to his weaker sister, oddly).

Hmm...there were positives, and I'm intrigued how improved it might be with the added...what is it, 13 minutes, planned for the DVD release. Batman vs. Superman's DVD version was almost unrecognisable from the cinema edition - that's how impressive the uncut parts were.