Review of Suicide Squad (2016) by I_Ate_A_Pickle — 08 Sep 2018

Suicide Squad is the title, huh? Well, it did make me consider suicide after watching it. Thank god I watched a free version on Youtube because this movie sucked.

Pros: (Haha, this movie actually has pros. Hard to believe, right?).

- Margot Robbie was solid in her performance. It is clear after watching interviews with her and this movie she loved 'down to her heart' playing Harley Quinn.

- Some of the soundtracks worked well. Keyword though, some.

- The destroyed city at night provided a neat setting for the DC movie.

Cons:

- The movie never explains why these specific criminals (later named Suicide Squad) are needed with this mission. First of all, they are useless. A girl with a baseball bat. A guy with some boomerangs. A guy who can shoot fire but doesn't until 75 % way through the film. A guy who can apparently snipe well but has a gun that appears to do all the sniping work for him. A girl with a sword that so happens to trap the souls of its victims. And a few others. Like, how are these people supposed to fight an army? The only reason why they beat the CGI army every time is that they are guided by Navy Seals on their mission. These people are criminals, remember. They don't have anything truly special that makes them needed for the threat of Enchantress. Logically, the government would just send Batman and/or a lot of Navy Seals/Military in general. Second, again these people are criminals (except Katana). Even though they have they have these bombs attached to their necks that can be easily detonated, I'm quite surprised they even want to help the Navy Seals after the majority of the Navy Seals get killed. It gets to the point where there are the Squad and just Rick Flag alive to monitor them. Can't they just overpower him and take that bomb device away from him at that point?

- The plot was 99 % stupid. It was so cringeworthy.

- The script, in general, felt like some 8-year-old fanboy wrote it.

- CGI was what I like to call "very, very poorly done".

- One of the worst ideas I have seen regarding "the heroes are the 'bad' guys, Amanda Waller is definitely evil, and the Enchantress and her army are even more bad guys than them." I was so dumbfounded.

- Why was the Joker in this movie? Had they removed him, it wouldn't make a difference since he had no impact on the plot at all. Actually, change that. Had they removed him, it would've made the movie better. He was so cringy. Furthermore, Jared Leto's performance made me question who his Joker character was even supposed to be.

- Jai Courtney kinda misinterpreted who Boomerang is I think. He felt too carefree in this film.

- Will Smith played Will Smith. Not Deadshot, sadly.

- Cara Delevigne was so bad they could've literally picked anyone else randomly to play Enchantress and they'd have a 90 % that person would play her better.

- Because the story was 99 % stupid as I said earlier, it made me forget basically all of it. I had to go to Wikipedia to remind myself what the plot was.

- So, Enchantress can kiss any person and they become a minion of hers. She kisses so many and eventually has an army of them. Great, another CGI army no one cares about. I might overlook a CGI army if they actually cause legit havoc towards the protagonists, but the Suicide Squad and Navy Seals took them out with little effort whatsoever.

- The majority of the soundtracks were bland, poorly made, dumb, lifeless, and/or contradictory to where the story was at any given point.