This has been one of the most contemplated movies to be releasing mid-year, with the super trailers that made most fans go ga-ga, the movie doesn’t seem to hold that amazement. I am not being cynical, but our people need to see bad-people-turning-good in a different light. Well, Director David Ayer(Fury and End of Watch) has brought this movie with the same thought. Working on the The Dirty Dozen team, he has tried to pull-off something between the WWII movies.
The movie begins with same story, where Amanda Waller(Viola Davis) persuades or rather tells them she needs a team of supervillains to combat metahuman threats, and it gets interesting. She literally gets a team together to defend against the “next superhuman”.huh? Yes, metahuman.superman.other planet.metahuman. Something’s really not right with her hidden motives or ineptitude script. seems pretty duh that her actions get Enchantress(Cara Delevinge) liberated, isn’t she supposed to be biggest threat to planet? My head is swimming with wonderful question marks by now.
The movie introduces every villain with its own pace, the second act just consists of all the antiheroes being brought into light(same way X-Men: Apocalypse did). Literally took more than necessary time, with Will Smith bagging three introductory scenes, which turn out to be unintentional comedy and yet these are the moments that form highlight of the movie.
The movie’s would-be action scenes take place in deserted/evacuated city and underground locale. The film’s third act comes a cross between Ghostbusters and The Mummy Returns, but sans any earned character loyalty or rising tension. The fact that these are the antiheroes with “evil” background is most irrelevant for the course of this specific story. You do not see them doing any skulduggery while on the mission. Enchantress simply transforms humans into blob-like character and this allows our Suicide Squad to slash, shoot and punch through hordes of adversaries without harming the U/A certificate. It feels that once the team lands in harm’s way, you are playing a zombie video game, and that too with not so good one.
To mention, as this is a big team, many are relegated as background players. The front is played by Will Smith’s Deadshot, the bad hombre; Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, the psychotic obscene-speaker and Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag, a good guy put in charge of the bad guys. Jay Hernandez’s Diablo gets tragic backstory and Viola Davis steals the movie in first half but fades out during the next half. The rest of the cast including Jai Courtney, Adam Beach, etc. just vanish into the background or have little screen presence. This really is a Will Smith wagon with really colourful characters on a not-so-blissful ride.
I would have really loved to see Harley Quinn more in the movie, she is a firecracker to be sure, with her pink and blue pigtails and hot pants. The movie doesn’t even scratch the surface about her relationship with you-know-who. Speaking of which, Jared Leto’s Joker is barely seen on the screen, which is kind of good and a bad thing at the same time. He is not allowed to take on the movie, but it is a pity how Ayer didn’t just make Joker the primary antagonist for narrative efficiency.
The majority of the movie seems so sloshed with “anti-heroes slow walking the deserted city” or “anti-heroes shooting the CGI blobs”, that I was waiting for Leto’s Swiper-like appearance just for the change in the scene. The Director David Ayer has underlined most absurdity – Suicide Squad has been a suggestive satire, how you give your weapons to your enemy against a certain threat and thereby preparing a new deadly enemy.
There ain’t doubt I was waiting for this movie, just because of Will Smith and Robbie, and Joker; how much I wanted to see more of them. The plot is twisted and turned which reminds of Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and even Captain America: Civil War, not getting enough of what is expected. If a sequel is to follow, I pity the guy who has to bring it up so many notches.
The movie works well, but somehow manages to stumble upon their own shoelaces.
Watch this movie for some excellent talent, awesome CGI but if you are not a fan of twisted tales, give it a rest.