Suicide Squad Review (Spoilers)

             

   What can I say about Suicide Squad? Well I can say I actually liked it, despite its mixed reviews. I should first say that Batman V Superman didn’t appeal to me all that much. There were parts I really liked, like Ben Affleck’s Batman, but overall I gave it a 6 out of 10 rating. Just putting it out there as this is DC’s third DCEU movie. I believe Suicide Squad is a great idea, a movie about villains. To me a villain is a fascinating character in any movie. I like to see what drives them, and sometimes I completely understand where they’re coming from. Let’s face it in real life; we aren’t all just heroes or villains. We all have a good and bad side, and this is one thing I enjoyed seeing in Suicide Squad. Learning these villain’s stories and seeing how they aren’t just straight up evil beings who want to kill or take over the world for no reason. I thought Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Will Smith as Deadshot stood out the most, probably for obvious reasons because they had the most screen time. But they did fantastic jobs as their characters. Margot’s accent switching up was a little weird, but she’s also a bit of a psycho so it sort of worked too. I liked they got her backstory in there and did it right. The flashbacks to her Joker were also pretty cool. I’ve seen some saying they aren’t supposed to really be in love in real life, and he is supposed to be abusive towards her. Well I personally saw that he was, I mean he fried her brain to begin with, had her jump into a thing of acid, he left her to drown or be captured by batman. I’m sure there are other moments too. I looked at him coming for her, as him going back for his property, as if she belonged to him. As for Deadshot I enjoyed his story being about his daughter, it made sense in the end he went to fight for the world, to save his daughter. I liked the Enchantress as the main villain, I thought she did well at being creepy, and she had a backstory to go off from. I’ll admit I was one of the people worried about Jared Leto taking on the Joker character, but he did alright with the actual acting like the Joker part, I didn’t care for his cheesy tattoos, I mean I love tattoos but not his with the “hahaha’ and the “damaged”. Also it was weird how he was a gangster boss like guy. Killer Croc I thought was badass; I just wish I could have seen more of him.

                Ok as for what I didn’t like, the fact right from the get go there are too many characters introduced, honestly to many characters in the whole film. Also the way they introduced them in the beginning was a bit weird, explaining their entire stories one after the other. If you know these characters, maybe it wasn’t a big deal for you, but a lot of people don’t. I understand that is what the Suicide Squad is, a large group of villains, but they could have handled this better. I also think a few of these characters were completely pointless and added no real substance to the film. The three that stand out here are Slipknot, Captain Boomerang, and Katana. Slipknot just dies right away with no real introduction to begin with. Maybe he was supposed to stand for; if you don’t listen they are serious about killing you. Katana also was pointless, not really a villain, but fighting for the good guys. She just felt thrown in there last minute when they were ready to start the mission, and really if she wasn’t in the movie at all, it wouldn’t have made a difference. I feel the same about captain Boomerang; I mean I guess he had a little more influence than the other two; he had a backstory at least. But I think some of this was due to the cuts they made. They never explained why he had some pink unicorn, stuff like that. Which leads me to my next point that it seems DC will be making a habit out of cutting content out of their theatrical release and then releasing extended versions on DVD instead. Supposedly the Batman V Superman extended cut makes up for some its error. I do believe an extra 30 minutes’ worth could make a world of difference, which is why I have purchased it, but have not yet viewed it. I would have liked to see plenty more of the Joker, but again a lot his scenes were cut, I have been hearing up to 10 scenes worth, which also could make a world of difference. Hopefully they don’t keep up with this trend. I believe a movie like this should have been rated R honestly. I think it could have been outstanding if it was. The ending was also a bit over the top; I mean an end of the world scenario I was not expecting. I guess on the flip side it made sense because why else are these guys risking their lives. The majority of them are bad guys after all with few loved ones (I’m assuming). But where was Batman, Flash, and Wonder Woman, it’d seem to me with a situation this big, they would be there. But maybe we will find out later. I just wish other than Deadshot they gave them more of a reason to fight the enchantress at the end, yes at first they had bombs in their necks.  But after that, it was weird that every one of them decided to fight.

                One thing I got to say about DCEU films is I think they are heavily comic based. What I mean is I realize Marvel films are far from reality but they seem like they try to make things as realistic as they can to a certain extent. I just feel DC is like well this is what happened in the comics so here ya go, and some of it they don’t explain. I realize they are going to explain over a period of movies, but still. Not that I don’t like their films so far, I just wish they would take their time introducing their characters. There is no rush, they have all the time in the world and after 4 movies they will be doing a Justice League film, which I find a little crazy. But I’ll still go see it. I really want to like DC’s films; they just make it hard at times. But overall, I know it might be an unpopular opinion but I give Suicide Squad an 8 out of 10, despite some of its big flaws. To me there is just something appealing about it, maybe it’s because we are coming straight out of Batman V Superman, maybe I’m too generous with this one. But I consider this movie a guilty pleasure movie, just something I like despite the flaws even I see.