After the dour Batman vs Superman, DC's Justice League could well be back in business.
I'm not sure why this has received similarly ordinary reviews, the poor reviews were warranted for B vs S (despite the extended version making a lot more sense).
It's funny, I always wonder what the reviewer was expecting when they give a pan to a super hero movie. Sure there are some pretty awful ones out there (Fantastic Four comes to mind) and they should be called as such but that really isn't the case with Suicide Squad.
The film comes on the back of a rocking trailer for Wonder Woman and something of an anti-superhero movie.
Take it from me, it's as entertaining as anything in the comic book genre this year. That doesn't mean it's perfect though.
A motley team of criminals, they often refer to themselves as 'the bad guys', is formed by the government to help fight the superhuman war building in the wake of the 'death' of Superman.
They're disposable if something goes wrong and something has gone wrong as the Enchantress (Cara Delevigne) is unleashed. Perhaps using yet another CGI villian is not a great idea, just a thought.
Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), El Diablo (Jay Hernandez), Slipknot (Adam Beach), Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) are coerced into helping out and quite hilariously threaten their new bosses regularly despite being injected with a device that will blow them up if they disobey.
All the while the Joker (Jared Leto) is circling attempting to rescue Harley from the group.
It's hard not to compare Leto's Joker with Heath Ledger's.
They look a bit different but are similarly nuts, though the Joker isn't a central character so he's not given as much air time relative to the publicity. If you want a comparison, Leto does fine but his Joker is not in the same league.
Speaking of nuts, Margot Robbie's character is 'a stadium full of picnic bars' crazy.
A lot goes on, sometimes it drags a little, but there are plenty of one liners (Margot Robbie gets a lot of them, and she's excellent), an over the top Australian bad guy and plenty of reminders that this is in the Justice League world with a couple of cameo appearances and an important scene midway through the credits.
This is so much better than Batman vs Superman but not quite up with Captain America: Civil War and Deadpool.
An 8 out of 10. Bring on Wonder Woman!
I'm not sure why this has received similarly ordinary reviews, the poor reviews were warranted for B vs S (despite the extended version making a lot more sense).
It's funny, I always wonder what the reviewer was expecting when they give a pan to a super hero movie. Sure there are some pretty awful ones out there (Fantastic Four comes to mind) and they should be called as such but that really isn't the case with Suicide Squad.
The film comes on the back of a rocking trailer for Wonder Woman and something of an anti-superhero movie.
Take it from me, it's as entertaining as anything in the comic book genre this year. That doesn't mean it's perfect though.
A motley team of criminals, they often refer to themselves as 'the bad guys', is formed by the government to help fight the superhuman war building in the wake of the 'death' of Superman.
They're disposable if something goes wrong and something has gone wrong as the Enchantress (Cara Delevigne) is unleashed. Perhaps using yet another CGI villian is not a great idea, just a thought.
Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), El Diablo (Jay Hernandez), Slipknot (Adam Beach), Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) are coerced into helping out and quite hilariously threaten their new bosses regularly despite being injected with a device that will blow them up if they disobey.
All the while the Joker (Jared Leto) is circling attempting to rescue Harley from the group.
It's hard not to compare Leto's Joker with Heath Ledger's.
They look a bit different but are similarly nuts, though the Joker isn't a central character so he's not given as much air time relative to the publicity. If you want a comparison, Leto does fine but his Joker is not in the same league.
Speaking of nuts, Margot Robbie's character is 'a stadium full of picnic bars' crazy.
A lot goes on, sometimes it drags a little, but there are plenty of one liners (Margot Robbie gets a lot of them, and she's excellent), an over the top Australian bad guy and plenty of reminders that this is in the Justice League world with a couple of cameo appearances and an important scene midway through the credits.
This is so much better than Batman vs Superman but not quite up with Captain America: Civil War and Deadpool.
An 8 out of 10. Bring on Wonder Woman!
