DC SUICIDE SQUAD- SUCKER PUNCH TO THE GUT
- Tavia Millward
- Aug 10, 2016
- 4 min read
The film about notorious villains who are playing it safe with a PG-13 rating. Cue, eye roll.
The film starts with Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) doing roll call and basically asking every villain to “please tell us about yourself” cuts to flashbacks. Back to Waller then back to another flashback then back to Waller, then back to another flashback…
You probably get it now. The sad thing is, those flashbacks only introduced two characters. Well, basically the only two well developed characters in the movie, Deadshot (Will Smith) and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie).
You are probably wondering why should you read this blog if I'm only going to be hating on the film. Well…
Let the hating begin.
These somewhat long, flashbacks and short ones basically felt very much like the producers just took it off Wikipedia. How dumb do the producers think we are? We know you copied and pasted the characters’ bio straight into the script. Then threw in some neon colours and acidic dripping in the mix to make up for the lack of bad writing.
Just out of curiosity. Was Melania Trump one of the producers?
Some characters would have been better if they stayed on the Art Director’s sketch board or even the script itself. For instance, Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) just seemed like your typical black guy who is just there to comment or laugh at other what people are saying. They should have taken a page from Marvel's film Guardians of the Galaxy character Groot, a tree that only has one repetitive line yet is more defined and developed than Killer Croc. They should have given more lines than “I am beautiful” to explore his character more.
Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), a normal thief that is given a boomerang and the title “Captain” to make him sound cool but is just basically thrown into a scene to make DCs usual darker approach funnier.
We are glad that you read the critics review of Batman V Superman and my blog, Snyder.
Why the hell was Katana (Karen Fukuhara), Slipknot (Adam Beach) and even The Flash (Ezra Miller) there? Slipknot was taken off the field and Snyder decided to replace that player with another under developed character, Katana. Whose background it being told to us instead of shown. Whereas, The Flash he made a quicker exit than an entry. So you decide to give two strong performances from Smith and Robbie hoping we will ignore the rest.
It sounds more like poorly written essay with an epic conclusion hoping the “body” of the essay will ignored.
I don’t even want to start on the “villain” Enchantress (Cara Delevingne) and that engineered love affair with Randal Flagg (Joel Kinnaman) that was engineered by who I think was the truest villain, Waller.
A movie is only as great as its villain. Who thought that deity villain being beaten by normal villains with only one member an actually meta-human but does not want to use his power would work? The ending was bound to turn out weak because humans cannot defeat gods.
Speaking of villains. The Joker (Jared Leto) seems more like a poor relative from Lex Luthor’s (Jesse Eisenberg) family. I honestly thought hearing all about Leto’s method acting and the way he tormented the crew would have resulted in a well performed Joker. For now, The Joker is just a man in love with a (how shall I put it) a beautiful disaster, Harley Quinn. Beautiful Disaster is also a song from 30 Seconds To Mars.
You should listen to it. I got the album. Oh, yes off topic again.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not hating on Leto’s Joker. I still think he has enough time to improve since he was like only about five scenes. I just cannot seem to get over Heath Ledger’s Joker since he screwed with my mind in Nolan’s Batman.
Margot Robbie has been praised for her good performance and also the only who character that gives us the memorable lines “we the bad guys.” What did annoy me? Well, the continuous references to how hot she is on the outside and screwed up on the inside. Along with the constant overrated Michael Bay “panning pass the ass.”
Can someone please call a social worker and charge Zack Snyder with negligence?
I know, isn’t David Ayer (director) responsible as well. No, he is not because I know Snyder used him for a patsy much like Waller does with the Suicide Squad. Ayer was under constant pressure from executive producers. We can tell that there were several reshoots with Flagg’s hair constantly getting short then long. Or is that his “power” when he is not licking Waller’s ass.
I could give Snyder points for reading my Batman V Superman’s blog (still pissed off about the omniscience of the “s” in Vs). He listened to critics did sneak a bit humour through Quinn and Deadshot.
The plot (by plot I mean a plot of land) which has less holes in it than the script was truly a…
“nondescript plan to enslave the world”
I could give them points for design aesthetic, production design, make up and wardrobe. Yes, Suicide Squad paints a pretty picture. I think I would have a Suicide Squad colour therapy book than watch it again.
The film ends with Bruce Wayne saying “You should shut it down.” A perfect on the nose dialogue which represents my feeling about the film. Snyder can you please take Bruce’s advice you clearly never listened at the end of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice “We can do better. We have too.”
This blog post was painfully horrible to write just like my final math paper in grade 12.
I think Katana sword stole the soul of Suicide Squad.
The Scripture says.
