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article2016 Reviews, articleDC Extended Universe,The third installment of the DCEU sees a group of infamous DC villains take on the role of heroes. But can it compete with Marvel movies a-la Guardians of the Galaxy?
Genre: Action/Fantasy/MysteryDirector: David Ayer
Cast: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney,
Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje,Cara Delevingne, Jared Leto &
Karen Fukuhara.
Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje,Cara Delevingne, Jared Leto &
Karen Fukuhara.
Run Time: 123 min.
US Release: 01 August 2016
UK Release: 05 August 2016
German Release: 18 August 2016
The short answer is: No, it can’t. While BvS wasn’t exactly the hit I was hoping it to be, it still managed to entertain the hell out me and all the negative reviews it obtained seriously surprised me. After BvS, when the first official trailer for Suicide Squad hit the net, I was hoping for this to be the movie that would finally catapult the DCEU into the “Hall of Greatness”. Before managing to finally watch it in theatres, I tried to ignore all of the reviews that were already out and those that I wasn’t able to ignore, I took with a grain of salt. But by the end of my visit to the movies, what I had seen was the opposite of great. Suicide Squad has an immense amount of issues, all of which I will go into detail in this review. So hold on and prepare for a rant!
As stated in my previous reviews for Batman v Superman and Man of Steel, I am a big fan of the Dark Knight and other DC characters and collected nearly every issue that came out when I was a child. Most of those issues are sadly no more, but I still collect Batman comics and have them carefully placed on a shelf. So when I heard that Harley Quinn would be included in - what is her first silver screen appearance, my nerd heart nearly jumped out of my chest! I am also a fan of the Suicide Squad storyline because it sets up a group of villains and gives them more depth in personality, than in a standard superhero issue, showing the reader that there is more to those characters than simply being bad.
So what is this movie about? Basically, after the events of Batman v Superman, ARGUS (a spy agency in the DC Universe) agent Amanda Waller (Davis) convinces the Chiefs of Staff that the US needs a Team of extraordinary beings to the protect the Nation's interest. She gets permission to create a squad, consisting completely of villains that should protect the public and government from meta-human attacks, acting against their self-interests.
The team she picks consists of Deadshot (Smith), Harley Quinn (Robbie), Captain Boomerang (Courtney), Diablo (Hernandez) and Killer Croc (Akinnuoye-Agbaje). They are all forced to obey and are lead by Squad leader Rick Flag (Kinnaman) and his girlfriend June Moone (Delevingne) aka Enchantress. In the meantime The Joker (Letto) is searching for Harley, to break her out of the Squad. When a super-powered and magical force attacks Earth, these villains need to unite and put their differences aside in order to survive.
With a storyline line like the one from Suicide Squad, the best course for Warner Bros. would have been to make an R-rated comic book flick! It worked with Deadpool and it would have helped this movie because the squad is simply fouled mouthed and violent. But it wasn’t the rating system that harmed the film; the issue with Suicide Squad is that it has no real depth in its plot that was able to catch the audience’s interest. In fact, I will go so far as to say that it had no plot at all. All of the jokes, all of the fun and action packed scenes had been shown in the trailer and if someone had asked me to summarise the story, I would have probably said that it is simply an expansion of what you already saw in that two-minute trailer.
Little in this movie is really of value and there were nearly no moments I cherished. The role of the Joker in this film is a joke (pun intended…); he is barely in the film and while they give us flashbacks that are supposed to flesh out the characters a little, those recaps contained no depth and were thus useless. The dialogues were flat, the menace consisted of a bright magical thing in the sky and the ending was a sleazy cop out. There are signs throughout this blockbusters about how this had been supposed to be a completely different type of film, but somewhere along post-production, it was decided to butcher it.
Margot Robbie was by far the best thing in this film and surprised me as Harley Quinn. She was the most compelling character, was funny and beautiful too look at. Her craziness and the interaction with The Joker were my favourite parts in this adaptation. Sadly these moments were down to a minimum. On the other hand, I was somewhat disappointed by Jared Letto’s Joker, who resembled more a thieving pimp than the clown prince of crime. I am not saying that Letto did a bad job, he simply wasn’t in the movie as much as it was announced that he would be, and the few moments with him simply did not do any justice to this infamous villain!
Will Smith was good as Deadshot but he was, as usual, playing himself who plays another character. It was hard to imagine him being the world's most accurate marksman. Still, his background story gave him depth and proved that he is more than just a merc for hire. Then there is Kinnaman as Rick Flag, who I could not take serious in the role. He gave off such a poor, one-dimensional impression; I was absolutely surprised that he even got cast.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc was completely wasted. He is just a side character, with nearly no lines, just tagging along. Most of the times it felt as if he was playing the sidekick to Captain Boomerang, Harley or Deadshot. Jay Courtney was the biggest surprise of this blockbuster! He was funny, a little nuts and simply ruthless as Captain Boomerang. I will not say much about Cara Delevingne’s Enchantress, except that she was boring.
Even the cinematography was a complete mess. Granted, the movie has some good-looking action scenes and stunts but overall, it felt like an extended trailer because of all the rough post-production cuts. These are extremely easy to spot and hamper the flow of the shallow story. It is evidently clear that the studio messed with the final product and the viewer did not obtain the intended movie that Ayer and Warner had shot.
Music can be such an important factor to a film. If the correct music is chosen or composed, it can elevate a film into greatness. It also works vice-versa; a scene or moment can be completely ruined if the wrong soundtrack was added to it. So it goes without saying that the music was probably my biggest grudge because it simply did not fit the tone of the comic book flick.
Verdict: So, in a nutshell… Suicide Squad did have its fun moments and a good amount of action, but it wasn’t the movie these characters deserved. There was a complete lack of story, the Joker had a minimal amount of screen time and the characters were not explored enough for the viewer to care. The cutting was goddamn awful and the music was put together in the last minute. Simply said, this movie was a mess and I did expect much better from David Ayer! I will buy it on Blu-ray when it comes out simply because I am a completionist, but I can’t recommend anyone to watch it in theatres. I will give Suicide Squad a generous 5 out of 10!
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