Review of The Suicide Squad (2021) by Viroodiem — 06 Aug 2021

Its OK.

It is incredibly flawed, but its OK. As someone who bleeds DC it really hurt to rate this as low as I did. Its above average but not a revelation. The comedy is the key strength and it starts off strong in this department butIts OK.

It is incredibly flawed, but its OK.

As someone who bleeds DC it really hurt to rate this as low as I did. Its above average but not a revelation.

The comedy is the key strength and it starts off strong in this department but starts to lull and lose steam starting in the last 45 minutes.

The cast is largely OK. This was a major redemption for Robbie as Harley after the solo movie was so rancid.

The majority of the main cast put in decent performances. As expected Elba was good, as was Kinnaman. What they did with Stalone was pleasantly unexpected, albeit it INCREDIBLY derivative of Groot. While she did OK there was entirely too much screen time dedicated for Daniela Melchior as she was only there to humanize these characters which misses the point.

Cena was a poor mans Rock and it really shows. Hes not as bad as the goofy 80s wrestlers when they tried to act but hes for the most part just there. He is intended to be comic relief but being stupid isnt really funny.

That leads into the real problems. The writing is by far the weakest element. Some of the comedy is great, but you really get the feeling that this was Gunn's catharsis of being underneath the thumb of the plague rats standard operating procedures. So of course its pointlessly profane, with excessive nudity both female and male. Adding basically nothing to the end product. Visually its almost uneventful for the source material. All of this amounts to a production that is like a 14 year olds dream flick knowing a 14 year old is not supposed to be the target demographic. Just like Disney super hero movies this incarnation of suicide squad was wrung out of depth and stuffed with tropes instead of exposition. Granted no one comes to a super hero movie expecting Shakespeare, but this should have been better than a contrived and derivative mindless popcorn muncher bomb that lulls you to sleep with how "awesome" it thinks it is.

Honestly I would give this a high D, but its barely passing cause once the comedy runs out halfway through its just a slog to get through the last quarter of the film.

So Ill give it an appropriate 6.9 and yeah honestly rounding down to a 6 because I expected better from DC. This wasnt supposed to be dirty Disney but that is basically what we got and that is not acceptable.