The Suicide Squad review
The DCEU's rather disastrous 2016 was largely the fault of Batman v Superman. But Suicide Squad wasn't received that much better. It did better box office but nobody really liked it much.
I was lukewarm on it. Never saw it again until just before this new movie came out, and tbh it was better than I remembered.
THE Suicide Squad is better though. During James Gunn's brief ousting at Marvel, DC snatched him up to do this movie. And they let him loose. For better and sometimes worse, this movie is James Gunn unleashed on a grand scale. It doesn't always work, but it's a ton of fun when it does.
This movie is sort of half sequel, half reboot. The first movie happened, but this one doesn't really do much in the way of callbacks.
Most of the cast is new. The most significant returnees are Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman and Viola Davis. But a few others from the first movie do pop up.
Idris Elba more or less takes over for Will Smith, playing a different character but with a lot of similar abilities and character development. Elba is effortless coolness personified.
John Cena, so disappointingly bland in F9, is a lot of fun as The Peacemaker.
Sylvester Stallone amusingly voices King Shark, a character I knew a little from The Flash.
David Dastmalchian is the Polka Dot Man. He shoots polka dots.
Totally loved Daniela Melchior as Ratcatcher 2. Cute, sweet, and covered with rats sometimes but so what?
The human villains are uninteresting, but they all fight a giant alien starfish at the end, which can fire off little starfishes that can act like Alien facehuggers. It's weird shit, and kind of gross at times. Gunn really makes the movie icky at times and certainly takes advantage of the R rating.
A lot of the pieces here really work, but the whole seems to have something missing. It's not THAT funny after that first half hour. The middle third of the movie really drags at times, particularly an extended Harley Quinn sequence.
It's one of the more successful DCEU movies though.
I was lukewarm on it. Never saw it again until just before this new movie came out, and tbh it was better than I remembered.
THE Suicide Squad is better though. During James Gunn's brief ousting at Marvel, DC snatched him up to do this movie. And they let him loose. For better and sometimes worse, this movie is James Gunn unleashed on a grand scale. It doesn't always work, but it's a ton of fun when it does.
This movie is sort of half sequel, half reboot. The first movie happened, but this one doesn't really do much in the way of callbacks.
Most of the cast is new. The most significant returnees are Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman and Viola Davis. But a few others from the first movie do pop up.
Idris Elba more or less takes over for Will Smith, playing a different character but with a lot of similar abilities and character development. Elba is effortless coolness personified.
John Cena, so disappointingly bland in F9, is a lot of fun as The Peacemaker.
Sylvester Stallone amusingly voices King Shark, a character I knew a little from The Flash.
David Dastmalchian is the Polka Dot Man. He shoots polka dots.
Totally loved Daniela Melchior as Ratcatcher 2. Cute, sweet, and covered with rats sometimes but so what?
The human villains are uninteresting, but they all fight a giant alien starfish at the end, which can fire off little starfishes that can act like Alien facehuggers. It's weird shit, and kind of gross at times. Gunn really makes the movie icky at times and certainly takes advantage of the R rating.
A lot of the pieces here really work, but the whole seems to have something missing. It's not THAT funny after that first half hour. The middle third of the movie really drags at times, particularly an extended Harley Quinn sequence.
It's one of the more successful DCEU movies though.
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