Suicide Squad (2016)

Suicide Squad (2016)

4/10

Starring

Will Smith

Jared Leto

Margot Robbie

Viola Davis

Directed by David Ayer

Compared to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), this is not half bad. All you have to do is remove the boring buildup leading to the introduction of the squad, the not-so-interesting dialogues in between events, the wasteful presence of the Joker in the movie, and lastly, the weird dance called spell-casting by the Enchantress—and you have something you can watch.

Arguably, what’s left isn’t much.

In the post-credit scene, you get what you’d call an introduction to the coming of the Justice League. For me, I think DC is rushing this, but we’ll have to wait and see how it turns out in the end.

The focus of this review is Suicide Squad, a sidestep from the Justice League movie. And as sidesteps go, this movie won’t amount to much in the life of an avid movie watcher. It’s on the borderline between an okay movie and a boring one.
As listed above in the first paragraph, those are the reasons this movie isn’t a grand film to rush out and see. My major turnoff was how undramatic the Joker’s presence felt in the movie. The writers had many ways they could have used him but chose to focus on him as a boring interlude to an already not-so-great movie.

Will Smith, on the other hand, did a good job. It’s been a while since I’ve been impressed by Will Smith, and I have to say this time, he did impress me. Margot Robbie was also an interesting character. Her portrayal of Harley Quinn will stand out as one to beat if the character is ever portrayed again. Margot pulled off the perfect insane lady that made you crave her presence. The thought that she was almost out of the squad halfway into the movie made me sad for a second—until a series of unfortunate events led her back into the mix.

Suicide Squad, as the comics put it, is a group of villains merged together by Amanda Waller to be used for good. The group consists of Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, El Diablo, Captain Boomerang, guided by Flag (a special armed forces operative), and Katana.
They were gathered together to stop a raging magical being (or beings) on a quest for world domination.

For me, Suicide Squad is a better step up from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), but not as good a step up as I would expect. I do hope that the next set of DC-planned movies will finally redeem the DC comic movie franchise.