Review of Suicide Squad (2016) by Angelstarr — 28 Jun 2019

The movie tries to accomplish too many things at once. It tries to be both lighthearted, funny and at the same time serious, and emotional. It only comes off as a ridiculous collection of horrible cliches.

The writing is bad, the directing is bad, and when these two things are bad - the actors, as good as they are, can't fix it. There is some pretty good acting - but their lines are horrible.

The characters are so hollow and empty - at no point in the movie was I ever convinced, even for a minute, than any character was genuine. They all behaved shifting irregularly between overdoses of eccentricity, and overdoses of seriousness.

The plot was mellow, to say the least.

The ending was so bad, so cliched, I found myself grimacing, cringing, and actually fast-forwarding an overly-smeared moment of undeserved slow-motion.

Nothing can fix bad writing combined with bad directing.

I felt genuinely sad for the actors that agreed to take part in this ridiculous creation.

I find it very sad, that managers in charge of such magnificent intellectual property characters can't find it in their minds to be original.

I kept remembering how brilliant, deep, and incredibly convincing The Dark Knight movie was, and I believe a good writer, with a good director, and obviously all this needs a competent producer - could come up with a movie to blow the audience's minds and last for years and years. The Batman proved it possible.

Suicide Squad feels like the production didn't even aim high, honestly - they knew people would pay money to see a high-budget super-villain movie, so nobody really cared if the movie itself was a complete disaster.

And this is exactly what Suicide Squad is: an unimpressive disaster of the worst kind: the boring, cliched, daddy-jokes kind.

No need to even begin to watch this - just go watch clips of the Joker & Harley on youtube - because those moments are as good as the movie gets. The rest is unnecessary garbage.