Sunday, August 7, 2016

My obligatory Suicide Squad movie review

Ya know the day before I saw the movie I had caught this cool scene on youtube of Waller having the Enchantress magically teleporting some military secrets out of iran during a meeting with some top brass to help make the case for the Task Force X program and I was like fucken eh. Finally I'm at the theater and the movie starts and it opens up with this introduction of the main characters that reminded me of DC's Assault on Arkham and I started thinking that this might not be bad after all. I even liked a lot of the music in the movie especially the use of these classic songs that really were spot on for the moment. Probably the best example was the Rolling Stone's Sympathy for The Devil with the introduction scene for Waller. Unfortunately that along with some funny one liners is about all the movie really has going for it.
I think my biggest problem with the movie was the plot. The disaster Task Force X gets called up for is over some shit (shit that I never really fully quite understood) The Enchantress stirs up so basically she's not even a member of The Squad she's actually in effect the primary villain of the movie. That didn't really work for me, and aside from that the movie felt a bit disjointed as far as how the story flowed. Also, there were a few cool scenes from the trailers that were absent in the film I didn't like that much either.
Some of the characters hardly made any impression at all on me. Ok we had Slipknot. who's purpose in the movie literally was to be a mission fatality I mean they gave that character nothing to do but die. They don't even introduce him in the movie he just shows up and dies 15 minute later after 2 or 3 lines. Katana seemed to also show up out of no where and in spite of her swinging around this soul stealing sword she still some how manages to be absent from the story line. Boomerang didn't have much to do either other then some extra comedy relief. Killer Croc was more present in the film but they didn't do much to develop his character into something a little less predictable and two dimensional. They probably did a little bit better with the Rick Flagg character then the before mentioned cast members. Then there's El Diablo, who they did alright with his character up until the end when he transforms into some kind of demonic "Aztecy" fire kinda thing for what was supposed to be this epic battle scene you probably won't care much about at that point in the movie even though Diablo sacrifices his life for the mission. That was one of those huh? moments. Are all my spoilers bothering you? It's ok trust me you really won't care much once you start watching the movie.
As expected the stand out characters were Amanda Waller, Deadshot and Harley Quinn what you saw in the movie trailers as far as how those characters are portrayed is pretty much what you get in the movie. Jared Leto as The Joker wasn't bad but certainly fell short of Heath Ledger's legendary performance. Another issue that bugged me was how through out the movie many of the character's seemed to be out of character. Toward the end of the movie Rick Flagg tries to give Deadshot a hug and I'm like no way that would ever happen. In any universe cinematic or published you couldn't even get a hand shake out of those two they can't stand each other. I think you'd best save your money for now and wait for this movie to show up at a nearby Redbox.

11 comments:

  1. I saw the movie last night with my wife, and we had a great time. I´m a 40 year old DC Fan who read it all, while she know then from the Justice League cartoons, and well, we both liked the movie. it´s not easy to make them "real" and they did a good job on it. The movie is not perfect, it has a pacing problem, but actually i never thought this group would ever get a movie.

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    1. Seems you liked the movie a lot more then I did. thanks for the feed back amigo.

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    2. "i never thought this group would ever get a movie."

      Dirty Dozen 1967, Robert Aldrich.

      You're wellcome

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  2. I may watch it online, but I've gotten so far a 50/50 split amongst fans, so we'll see. But yeah I'd heard plot and pacing problems( more of SvB) were the main problems and lack of character development as you point out.

    And yet somehow, I read Ostrander gave it a positive review?
    He's only doing that because he's paid to. has to be....

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    1. omega agent 1 contacted me last night by email apperently he's having some blogger issues. He also had a lot of problems with the movie but thought Squad fans should see it anyways.

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  3. Oh no kidding? Nice!!! How's he doing? Where the hell is he?
    I might, but only if I download it online

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  4. I was 50/50 watching the movie myself. I thought it was fun, had some good performances, but it the end it felt like all flash and no substance. I did like how they handled Waller. Glad they didn't soft peddle her. And Morgot Robie didn't disappoint. Will Smith was better than I was expecting. But it doesn't match the overall nailed it feeling of some of the Marvel movies, which has been the biggest problem of DC movies. This was closer than Barman vs. Superman, but still not a home run, which DC needs right Now. Oh, and did everyone see the Ostrander Easter egg?

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    1. yeah the name on that building i did catch it. for me the big issue with Batman vs Superman was the running time all they had to do was cut it down by about 20 minutes and it would have been much better. suicide squad was riddled with all sorts of problems including the plot so i think BvsS turned out to be a better effort.

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    2. For that I'll wait For a second viewing. I was fine overall with B. vs S. in the theater but found it almost unwatchable during a second viewing at home.

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