If there is a lesson to be learned here its don't trust a film critic.
Or a score on 'Rotten Tomatoes'.
I thoroughly enjoyed 'Suicide Squad'.
It easily beat the rather flat 'X men: Apocalypse' and 'Star Trek: Beyond and its a very positive step past 'Batman V Superman' confused and grim execution . And as to joining the league of terrible comicbook movie adaptations, forget about it . I'd happily watch this again this week, whilst there are plenty of others I simply WISHED I've never watched at all.
Yes it does have its odd problems.
David Ayers could have done with a writing partner to craft some sharper humour and smooth some of the rough edges off the script and you can clearly see the WB studios panicky executive fingerprints all over the edit because if anything it tries far too hard in the beginning to be some other movie. And that loss of consistent tone feels a little off late on, but I've got to say some of the best scenes for me, such as in the bar, had some real weight to them and there were great character moments, better than I'd been lead to expect.
Talking of which the cast were really great, though I did struggle with the Joker, his bling just seems "wrong", like he would ever really give a ****** about dressing the way other gansters would just to impress them. Definitely an off the scale pyscho but I didn't get that whole other kind of 'mad genius plotting going on behind the eyes' with Leto in this film, just a random unpredictable nutter.
Everyone else gets a strong pass ,particularly El Diablo, Deadshot, Harley, Amanda, and the Boomerang. I wish they had lengthened the movie a bit earlier on, so the others got a bit more time to develop with us but they all had their part to play by the end. Some dialogue and conversations seemed truncated but I think the editting is partly to blame. But it still got its share of laughter and there were some really heartfelt moments in this.
What I really don't understand is the critical pounding this movie is getting. Its not up there with Marvels recent classics, but has everyone forgotten "Iron Man II", or "The Hulks"? Then there are some of the X men and Wolverine failures, the Fantatic Four, the worst of the Spidermans etc etc. Why this tidal wave of hate??? To read the comments you'd have thought this was the absolute bottom of the compost heap but it simply ,isn't not by a considerable margin.
Is it as great as I'd hoped. No, for me it needed a stronger script, snappier and funnier dialogue and a better villian to be the best of the best . But the worst of the worst. No way in hell.
I bloody well enjoyed myself watching it , I wasn't bored, I can't see what half the effing critics were going on about and crucially I didn't feel I got cheated out of either my time and money watching it. If you want an entertaining, slightly off kilter summer blockbuster you could do a ton worse than Suicide Squad.
