Monday 10 October 2016

Suicide Squad’ Review: The DC Movie Universe’s Darkest Night

If you liked the scene in Batman v Superman where Wonder Woman watched YouTube videos about the future members of the Justice League, you'll love Suicide Squad.

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Instead of just one scene of plot-stopping fan service,  suicide squad full movie Suicide Squad delivers an entire first act of soul-deadening exposition. The movie spends 20 story-free minutes with a Machiavellian bureaucrat while she sits in a restaurant discussing a top secret personnel file. Here is Deadshot, the world’s greatest assassin; this is Harley Quinn, the Joker’s psychotic girlfriend. Oh and have you heard about Captain Boomerang? And on and on and on.

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Director David Ayer tries to liven things up with a couple of flashy DC cameos and lots of iconic rock songs on the soundtrack. But that’s just the proverbial lipstick on the dead pig that Jared Leto sent to his co-stars to prove his Method bona fides as the Joker.  watch suicide squad This opening sequence has all the excitement of a mildly contentious HR meeting, and the movie gets no better from there. Bland, boring, and sometimes borderline incoherent, Suicide Squad is a disappointing disaster.

The bureaucrat is named Amanda Waller (Viola Davis, looking sad and a little lost). She wants to assemble a team of the worst villains on the planet to defend America the next time a Superman-type arrives and threatens humanity. Violent sociopaths seem like a poor choice to save the world, but Waller intends to keep them in line by Snake Plisskening their cooperation with implanted nanite bombs, and by bringing in a super soldier named Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) to lead them in battle. Does this sound like a terrible plan? That’s because it’s a terrible plan. And fittingly, suicide squad free  suicide squad cast it immediately backfires. (Without spoiling too much, the team is to blame for the crisis that necessitates its first mission.)

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Besides Will Smith’s Deadshot, a hitman with perfect aim and a daughter he misses, Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, a deranged killer who enjoys bludgeoning people to death while not wearing pants, and Jai Courtney’s Captain Boomerang, an amoral Aussie with razor-edged boomerangs for weapons, the Squad includes El Diablo (Jay Hernandez), a remorseful gangster with the ability to spew fire, Katana (Karen Fukuhara), a martial artist with a magical sword,  watch suicide squad online Enchantress (Cara Delevingne) an ancient witch in possession of a meek scientist, and Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), whose name pretty much says it all. By the time Waller gets White House approval for her “Task Force X,” their services are required to resolve a crisis in fictional Midway City.

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So much time is spent explaining each Suicide Squad character’s back

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