Monday, August 15, 2016

Suicide Squad

The third film in the DC Extended Universe, Suicide Squad is unique for a comic book based film due to the leads all being villains forced to do good. Taking place some time after Batman v Superman, Amanda Waller manages to convince the government into letting her form a secret team of villains, all unwittingly by putting small explosives in their heads, to combat threats that the government doesn't want to deal with and thus can blame this team if anything goes wrong called the Suicide Squad. Led by patriotic officer Rick Flag, the Squad includes well known DC villains like Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, Deadshot, El Diablo, Captain Boomerang, and Slipknot with Katana volunteering. The main story of the film deals with Waller trying to take control of the witch goddess Enchantress who manages to spring her powerful brother free and thus trap her in a city in which the Squad is assigned to rescue her and kill Enchantress and her brother. In the middle of all this, the Joker gets in the way of the mission as he wants to find and get Harley back. The cast includes Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Cara Delevingne, and a host of other actors. Some great things about the film is the cameos by both Batman and the Flash as played by Ben Affleck and Ezra Miller like in the previous film, Leto making for a very interesting and new take on the Joker, the action scenes are fun, there are many great comedic moments, Robbie is amazing as the first live action portrayal of Harley, and it's definitely more fun to watch than Dawn of Justice. However, the film has many problems, probably stemming from the reshoots or probably from the same problems that Justice went through. These issues include the constant flashbacks at the beginning that showed each member's backstory, which are great but distract from the overall story at times, and the fact that everyone but Slipknot gets one simply because he's the one that gets killed by his explosive; a lot of the comedic moments feeling forced at times, the first action scene during the mission feeling too easy; and the Joker not really having that much of a presence than what the marketing made it out to be and feeling like he was written in just to be there. Over all: 92%
Top list so far:
1. Zootopia
2. Deadpool
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. Finding Dory
5. Star Trek Beyond
6. Indepence Day: Resurgence
7. The Shallows
8. The Nice Guys
9. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
10. Suicide Squad
11. Jason Bourne
12. Kung Fu Panda 3
13. The BFG
14. Ghostbusters 2016
15. Hail, Caesar!
16. X-Men: Apocalypse
17. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

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