I’m going to put here my thoughts about Suicide squad.
SPOILER ALERT, I’M GOING TO SPOIL ALL THE MOVIE, DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU ARE GOING TO SEE IT.
As a comic lover, I always want to watch any film about super heroes. Even when I do not expect anything from it, like this case.
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Suicide Squad fails both as film and as “creating” some short of universe for DC. The films does NOTHING for the DC universe. You could skip this film and watch BatmanVsSuperman->Justice league, and you will not be missing ANYTHING
Why does the goverment need the squad? I mean, they are already ALL in jail, and why? They are recruited for fighting against meta humans. Guess what, there are already good meta humans(Flash, Batman, Aquaman, all of them well know for Amanda Waller, who has documents and even knows the secret identity of Batman!). So they create an squad… and one of the members goes rogue and start a mess? So they are responsable of all this! And it’s so convenient either Batman, Flash or Wonder Woman doesn’t appear to save the day. The suicide squad has a secret member with omnipresent powers: The script Convenience(TSC from now). Thanks to TSC, no real hero comes to rescue, 3 helicopters(3 fucking helicopters!!) crash and nobody dies! All the squad survives the first crash, Joker survives the second, and Amanda the third. And in one piece everybody!
Also Enchantres and Incubus die in a very comical way. You create a meta human squad(from which Harley hardly offers anything that a seal couldn’t, besides being expendable, and the same goes for Captian Boomerang or Slipknot, who CLEARLY is presented as “expendable guy who we are going to kill ASAP to demostrate the bombs are real”) to deal against meta humans… and you kill both of them… with a bomb… WTF??? so you are telling me that you could launch a missile against that station, wipe it out, kill the bad guys, and avoid risking soldiers or using this group of freaks? Yeah, forget about that, TSC it’s here.
There is to much wrong in this film, and the worst part it’s the Joker. Seriously, THIS IS NOT THE JOKER. He barely laughs, he is a gang leader covered in gold jewels and tatoos incomodating people, AND NOTHING MORE. No jokes, no madness, only a perturbed guy who looks like a clown. And obsessed with Harley. He spends all the film trying to free her. He moves earth and heavens to do it. Not a mention of Batman, his nemesis, his obsession. They share an scene and nothing more. Harley SHOULD be obsessed with Joker, but not Joker with Harley. She is a tools for him, NOTHING MORE. Should he free her? Of course, but NOT AT ANY PRICE. He has no memorable lines, I could quote 4-5 lines of each previous Joker easily. This one has NOTHING.
I’m very dissappointed with this movie, because I don’t feel the comic’s magic anywhere. I feel this is a film made without passion, with two different styles(dark and funny) trying to co-exist, but failing.
When I see films like Deadpool or Guardians of the Galaxy, I see passion, love, I see the magic of the comic ALIVE. When I see BvsS or Suicide Squad I only see a movie which pretends to take my money just “because”.
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