Suicide Squad 2016

Sexist, horribly written, and downright frustrating to watch, this film is the kind of movie that I keep on my shelf for aesthetic purposes only. Despite most people's claims, Will Smith does NOT sell this movie. Casting Will Smith was suicide, pun intended. Whereas Margot Robbie inhabits her character and manages to make an insultingly sexist character work, Will Smith recites lines and acts like an entitled prick. There, I said it. The movie tries to straight up make members of the military look bad while making Deadshot look like he's "not so bad after all." It doesn't work. Call it racism all you want, but Will Smith is just not that great of an actor; not in most things I've seen him in, anyway. They even manage to throw a white privilege joke in there, which makes his character seem even more ignorant and unlikeable, especially considering the fact that he's making some heavy demands.

As for Harley, she rocks this movie. However, she, along with Captain Boomerang, are incredibly underdeveloped. There's a few scenes in which they get to truly shine, but that's it. What's good in this movie could have been condensed to a twenty minute segment, if that. They try and make Diablo relatable, but to be honest, I came away thinking he was a sexist creep, and I'm very against third-wave feminism. It's pretty hard to get me to say that.

I'm not even going to touch on how they depict mental health problems. All I gotta say is don't believe anything this movie tells you about anything related to that field. I get that it's a movie, but...yikes.

I guess my point is this movie sucks. A lot. It has beautiful cinematography in some parts, a fairly decent soundtrack, some excellent actors and actresses, and fantastic costumes on some of the characters, but that's about it. There's nothing else redeeming about this film aside from glimpses of what could have been. A shame, really - it could have been so much more.

Another DC dissapointment. The movie beings with all the promises and high stakes of a great film for the first half hour, and at first glance, Ayer places skillfully all his pieces on the board, and then, suddenly he loses all kind of sense of direction, despite spending some serious money on a really very cool visual design. This is a movie comprised of many brief moments of humor and running gags, not really scenes, it lacks an original story structure, as the whole "mission" is a mean by itself and there is not really an end game because the antagonist is very lame, with a generic CGI look. Those moments when the movie shines are great - don't get me wrong - but they don't contribute at all to enhance the overall plot development and some are just plain fan service, like the Batman cameo here and there to remind us that this an official DC movie. There are a lot of PG-13 jokes and innuendos (sadly, the best were in the trailers and many are out of place), and flashbacks... tons of flashbacks and dreamy sequences. Regarding the cast... imagine now that you have a basketball dream team... and they have someone who doesn't have a damn clue about the game as their Coach, and that Homer Simpson has written the playbook they are using, and you'll get an idea about how BAD this movie is, and no Director's Cut or Ultimate Edition can save it from the rubbish it is. It's ultimately such shame, because the acting is in my opinion so spot-on in most characters (specially Jared Leto's Joker in the very few minutes of screen time he has - yes, he is hardly at all in this film, so don't get your hopes high about his few lines of dialogue), but the charm or shock-value from those characters as themselves doesn't contribute to what it could have been a great film, as the whole conclusion isn't worth it (you'll get it by the third act). I would gladly watch a movie about The Joker and Harley Quinn's relationship... but this is, in the end, a lost opportunity. Oh... and the amazing vibe from the trailers?... you're gonna miss it because the music score is generic, bombastic and common-place (except for a few classic rock songs that the director tries to use to get his point across). It seems that Justice League will be the "good" DC movie after all (it better be, for Warner's sake). I'm not even keeping my hopes too high for next year's Wonder Woman after this mess, because trailers ARE deceiving. Suicide Squad is a movie that I won't buy on Blu-ray or catch again on Netflix. For those having high hopes for this film based on the material shown in the trailers: you will wish you could ask for a refund.

Hey DC, are you trying to f**k this up on purpose? Seriously! What the hell is going on over there. "Suicide Squad" was your chance to redeem yourself from the last critical failures. This movie should have been the one that saved DC and get it back on it's feet, but I guess not. I wanted this to be good or at least surprise me. There are some pros and plenty of cons in this. So lets kick it off.

Will Smith and Viola Davis are easily the best parts of this movie. Smith brings the humanity to his character and Davis brings the fear. Will Smith is the only character in this group that has any characterization as we get to know more about his past. Will Smith is basically playing Will Smith, but he was still good as the character. To be honest, I thought Voila Davis was more of a real threat then the actual threat itself.

Margot Robbie was pretty good as Harley Quinn, but wasn't the show stealer as I thought she would be. She did a great job capturing the character and there was little peaks of humility as well. Her accent dose keep changing in a few scenes, but I can easily look pass that.

I was one of those people who was against Jared Leto new look as the Joker. I know he's trying a different take on the character, but with all the stupid tattoo's all over him with the word 'damaged' on his forehead and the gangster grill teeth just wasn't the Joker. But I give Leto this, it's a bold move to take on the character after Ledger's unforgettable performance. I was being a bit too harsh at the time and Leto is a very method actor, so what's there's nothing to complain with the casting (besides the new look). After seeing the movie, Leto doesn't do a bad job as the Joker. He doesn't have that much screen time and every time he's on it screen, he kinda chews up the scenery. He was enjoyable to watch and I will make a full judgment when we have a movie where he has more screen time. Coming to think of it, The Joker should have been the main villain of the movie and not Enchantress (I'll get to her in a minute). Oh and I can't be the only one who thinks he looks like some manic you'll see in a Purge movie.

Cara Delevingne not only gives the worst performance in the movie, but also the most laughable one as well. I mean, what is up with that hip moves and twirling her arms around? It's like the director gave up. Enchantress is right up there with Dr. Doom from "Fant4stic" as the worst villain in comic book movie. Enchantress is the basic villain who wants to shoot a giant blue lazier in the sky to destroy the world. Oh and please stop it with the blue lazier thing, it's in every comic book movie now and it's so stupid.

Here's my question: Why would you sent these crazy and dangerous people on a mission to stop Enchantress. Yeah I really hope that doesn't back fire at all. I mean sure, send a guy who calls himself Captain Boomerang who's an insane person that throws boomerangs that never comes back to him to save us from giant portals from other worlds. Is it because they are expendable? It would have made a lot more sense if Wonder Women or The Flash or just anyone with god like powers to go on this mission. This really is a suicide mission.

The rest of the Squad members were pretty forgettable and just didn't do anything. Katana was just kinda there. Slipknot is in it for a few minutes. Killer Croc just stands around going "mmmm" or "yeah", they didn't do anything with that character.

The third act was this gigantic action scene that takes place in the city and the scene itself was just a mess. It was so muddled together and the editing was so poor that it sadly did remind me of "Fant4stic" climax.

Some of the music choices didn't really fit well during a couple of scenes. It felt out of place and was only thrown at the last minute to make it a little light at heart. This is because of the heavy criticism for "Batman V Superman" for being too dark.

I think DC biggest problem is that they are literally rushing the movies out just to catch up with Marvel. Take your time DC. But of course, many will be angry that I said that and will go to terrifying lengths to defend it. Fan boys seem to choose to deny any flaws from these movies and praise it for it's non-existing efforts. I'm not a DC hater. I'm not a Marvel fan boy. I only want a freaking good movie, is that hard to ask for. Just because it tried something new doesn't always mean it will bring great results. Everyone has an opinion, that's a no-brainier. Agree or disagree, just please don't act like a cry baby when some has a different opinion to you.

Overall rating: "Suicide Squad" was a huge disappointment in a lackluster year for summer movies. The more I think about this, the more I hate it.

How was it? Well, I can relate to the suicide part of this movie title.

David Ayer, Director of "End of Watch and "Training Day", had the opportunity to subvert expectations and deliver a story that had not been done before, however, what we got was a predictable, boring mess of a movie trying to be too hip for it's own good. This cringe fest of a movie fails at nearly every to turn make itself standout and original in comparison to other superhero movies flooding the market, with the direction, cinematography and tone screamed bland and uninspired. In terms of camera work, the movie seemed to have some of the ugliest camera shakes during fight scenes and an extremely high opacity rating that made the whole film seem like it was taking place at 2:00 at night. All of that together made this movie a painful experience to look at.

In terms of narrative structure, I can't really talk about it as the movie doesn't have one. The jumbled mess of a plot makes this movie just feel like one long scene, making it just a dull rollercoaster ride. The plots constant reincorporation of a characters past and someone he cares about is so painful. We are constantly reminded that, "Hey! he has a child" making his character development center around one person and not his actual personality. Also character development was completely missing, and I didn't care about a single one of the characters. Looking at this movie, I'm not really surprised there were reshoots and script changes.

In terms of acting in this movie, it's kind of a mixed bag. Will Smith, Viola Davis and Jai Courtney (surprisingly) did a decent job, Margot Robbie, however, just played an obnoxiously annoying joke dispenser with some of the cringiest attempts at humour that I have ever seen. Now, Jared Leto as the joker had alot of controversy around it, AND had to live up to the previous performance of the late Heath Ledger. A hurdle to overcome I'm sure but he missed the mark completely for me. Playing a version of the Joker that is extremely poorly acted. Maybe it's the director or the editors fault, but his performed made him seem like a man pretending instead of him becoming the character. It also didn't help that the writing of the movie was so stale, unfunny and blatant that it seemed like it was written by HAL 9000, and doesn't have a a quality to it that doesn't feel unnatural.

The music choices used seemed like choices from a 16 year old teenaged girl would use interlaced into scenes that could of done with music that actually suited the scene or no music at all. Every choice seemed obnoxious to me. As well as that, the editing was absolutely atrocious, with either continuity issues or edits that scream out "I'm trying to be hip and cool!" with absolutely no sense.

If you enjoyed this movie, please don't let me stop you. But as for me, it's a boring mess thats been added to a pile of forgettable comic book movies.

The only thing that carried the movie was HARLEY QUINN!!!
& captain boomerang + El diablo were some positive performances.
El Diablo-- what happened to him in the end?
There's just too many things that don't make sense in the movie.

Deadshot-- looks like any other hero of an action movie who is judge as bad by the people.
before he stood on that car roof, Harley was a better shot & I was thinking what's going on? like this there's just too many plotholes in the movie.
Joker-- well Heath Ledger left a mark that no one would be ever able to erase. So, I tried very hard to like this Joker played by Jared Leto but there's just too many personality changes that made me loose it. like previous joker wouldn't threaten he'd just kill(the guy they bring to butcher's) he's laugh fills forced, & some other issues.
the right thing they showed about Joker was how he left Harley in the water & how he didn't die & came to get her in the last scene.
American whatever that was Homeland or whatever.--they give in too easily to Waller.
Waller says 'she's watching everything' then how did they miss A whole squad when there were only two squads to watch
Then, she just kills everyone at that place, her own people & still the other soldiers eg. Flag still follow without a hitch.
Also when the Enchantress dies, Waller comes back like she just got back from an office meeting, without a scratch.
Batman-- he's just too stiff. & the way he captured Harley or Deadshot was just too amatuerish.
Katana-- her crying before the last fight was just very childish thing to do by the writers/director
Killer croc-- why & how was he...they didn't show anything
Enchantress-- to call out her Dr june has to say 'Enchantress', & I'm like 'what?'
Also, if enchantress is dead then why's she in the file given to batman at the end?

is Batman suggesting there'll be a Justice League V Suicide Squad movie??

Suicide Squad is a comic book movie about a group of villains recruited by the government to do their dirty work. Director David Ayer faces the challenge of introducing and integrating ten major characters to an audience who may not be familiar with the comics. While Ayer mostly succeeds, the film struggles with "Hobbit Syndrome" where there are too many peripheral characters who are underdeveloped. Some characters, like El Diablo and Killer Croc, are entertaining but not given enough depth to truly make an impact. The villains of the movie are also underwhelming and unmemorable, with the exception of Viola Davis' portrayal of Amanda Waller as a ruthless government operative. Will Smith and Margot Robbie shine as Deadshot and Harley Quinn, respectively, providing both humor and depth to their characters. The visuals of the film are striking and vibrant, but the editing and pacing of the film can be disjointed at times. Overall, Suicide Squad has its moments of entertainment but falls short in its character development and villain execution.

Suicide Squad es una película de historietas sobre un grupo de villanos reclutados por el gobierno para hacer su trabajo sucio. El director David Ayer enfrenta el desafío de presentar e integrar diez personajes principales a una audiencia que puede no estar familiarizada con los cómics. Si bien Ayer tiene éxito en su mayoría, la película lucha con el "Síndrome de Hobbit", donde hay demasiados personajes periféricos que están subdesarrollados. Algunos personajes, como El Diablo y Killer Croc, son entretenidos pero no tienen la profundidad suficiente para tener un impacto real. Los villanos de la película también son decepcionantes e inmemorables, con la excepción de la interpretación que hace Viola Davis de Amanda Waller como una agente del gobierno despiadada. Will Smith y Margot Robbie brillan como Deadshot y Harley Quinn, respectivamente, aportando humor y profundidad a sus personajes. Las imágenes de la película son llamativas y vibrantes, pero la edición y el ritmo de la película pueden ser inconexos a veces. En general, Suicide Squad tiene sus momentos de entretenimiento, pero se queda corto en el desarrollo del personaje y la ejecución del villano.