Review- Suicide Squad
Well, this is what I get for being too over excited for films. First Pan, now this.
Suicide Squad is a film. Can I stop now? It's bad, I don't want to say more. I don't even really remember the story and I'm writing this having just seen the film. No? Fine. There are a series of characters who are stuck in prison and they are used to go on dangerous missions, as you probably know. They go on one mission, the Joker pops his head in occasionally and then the status quo remains unchanged when they beat the heavily CGI-ed villain and we end where we started. Spoilers I guess but like I said, not much story. It really just is a third of the film for moderately interesting introductions and the remaining two thirds on the dull mission that should be like The Raid with superheroes but instead feels like that scene from The Raid 2 where the main character spends a minute punching a wall.
I had some hope for the acting in this movie with Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto all being actors I know are seriously skilled at what they do but that also managed to really let me down. Will Smith is Deadshot is basically just Will Smith being a little bit more evil than usual and entirely fine but unspectacular. He has a daughter and that is his character. You know that person who's a vegan but uses that as their singular character trait and won't shut up about it? Yeah, Will Smith's daughter. Margot Robbie should have been good as she seemed like the perfect choice for Harley Quinn but she quickly became annoying and wasn't even redeemed by her hotness. Jared Leto seems like he might be an okay Joker, if weaker than the other interpretations, but there wasn't enough of him to be sure. I'll try and run down the rest of the unremarkable cast quickly: Viola Davis was decently evil, Captain Boomerang manages to be only the second most interesting pink unicorn fetishist of the year, Diablo doesn't seem to do anything, Killer Croc also does nothing, Enchantress is a dull villain, I like Joel Kinnaman but his Rick Flag was unremarkable, Slipknot dies hysterically quickly and Katana just cries over her sword for her five minutes on screen.
Possibly the worst problem the film has (and there are many) is an editing problem, on so many levels. On a basic level, there are many scenes that don't flow together and feel out of place. I would occasionally look at the screen and think (or at least hope) I'd maybe fallen asleep because a scene felt weirdly out of place. For example, you know that scene from the end of the trailer where Harley Quinn steals a handbag and it feels pretty out of place. The scene gets less context than that in the film. Editing also fails when it comes to keeping a consistent tone. The first third of the film seems to be where all the creativity was blown as the character intros are fun and full of songs that, while out of place, distracted me from the uncomfortably edgy action on scene. This moderate good will gets tossed out instantly for the sake of the giant aforemetnioned city battle in which everything gets dark and sad and the characters keep shouting "Let's have fun!" while all feeling sad and shooting at blank faceless creatures. You know, at least Fant4stic was relentlessly miserable, Suicide Squad could never pick a tone. For this reason, it officially gets my award for film I'd least like to go shopping at Homebase with so at least it's notable for that.
There's no easy way of saying this, Suicide Squad is a mess. Some may find slight redeeming features in there and there are moments but for me, this really is a unredeemable mess. The characters are weird, the tone is all over the place and the film spends so long trying to be edgy in it's restrained little box in the DC universe that it forgets to actually be a film. That's why for me, Suicide Squad is far and away the biggest disappointment of the year and gets a
Suicide Squad is a film. Can I stop now? It's bad, I don't want to say more. I don't even really remember the story and I'm writing this having just seen the film. No? Fine. There are a series of characters who are stuck in prison and they are used to go on dangerous missions, as you probably know. They go on one mission, the Joker pops his head in occasionally and then the status quo remains unchanged when they beat the heavily CGI-ed villain and we end where we started. Spoilers I guess but like I said, not much story. It really just is a third of the film for moderately interesting introductions and the remaining two thirds on the dull mission that should be like The Raid with superheroes but instead feels like that scene from The Raid 2 where the main character spends a minute punching a wall.
I had some hope for the acting in this movie with Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto all being actors I know are seriously skilled at what they do but that also managed to really let me down. Will Smith is Deadshot is basically just Will Smith being a little bit more evil than usual and entirely fine but unspectacular. He has a daughter and that is his character. You know that person who's a vegan but uses that as their singular character trait and won't shut up about it? Yeah, Will Smith's daughter. Margot Robbie should have been good as she seemed like the perfect choice for Harley Quinn but she quickly became annoying and wasn't even redeemed by her hotness. Jared Leto seems like he might be an okay Joker, if weaker than the other interpretations, but there wasn't enough of him to be sure. I'll try and run down the rest of the unremarkable cast quickly: Viola Davis was decently evil, Captain Boomerang manages to be only the second most interesting pink unicorn fetishist of the year, Diablo doesn't seem to do anything, Killer Croc also does nothing, Enchantress is a dull villain, I like Joel Kinnaman but his Rick Flag was unremarkable, Slipknot dies hysterically quickly and Katana just cries over her sword for her five minutes on screen.
Possibly the worst problem the film has (and there are many) is an editing problem, on so many levels. On a basic level, there are many scenes that don't flow together and feel out of place. I would occasionally look at the screen and think (or at least hope) I'd maybe fallen asleep because a scene felt weirdly out of place. For example, you know that scene from the end of the trailer where Harley Quinn steals a handbag and it feels pretty out of place. The scene gets less context than that in the film. Editing also fails when it comes to keeping a consistent tone. The first third of the film seems to be where all the creativity was blown as the character intros are fun and full of songs that, while out of place, distracted me from the uncomfortably edgy action on scene. This moderate good will gets tossed out instantly for the sake of the giant aforemetnioned city battle in which everything gets dark and sad and the characters keep shouting "Let's have fun!" while all feeling sad and shooting at blank faceless creatures. You know, at least Fant4stic was relentlessly miserable, Suicide Squad could never pick a tone. For this reason, it officially gets my award for film I'd least like to go shopping at Homebase with so at least it's notable for that.
There's no easy way of saying this, Suicide Squad is a mess. Some may find slight redeeming features in there and there are moments but for me, this really is a unredeemable mess. The characters are weird, the tone is all over the place and the film spends so long trying to be edgy in it's restrained little box in the DC universe that it forgets to actually be a film. That's why for me, Suicide Squad is far and away the biggest disappointment of the year and gets a
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