The Suicide Squad | Movie REVIEW by Nerdrotic

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The Suicide Squad RETURNS! It isn’t woke, it’s fun, bloody and hilarious at times. A good film in a sea of GARBAGE. Here are my SPOILER FREE thoughts.

Nerdrotic

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when i first heard james gunn was going

to be directing the suicide squad

i thought it would probably be a pretty

good film and

my expectations were not subverted in a

sea

of hollywood garbage it is nice to get a

film that is just

entertaining and that’s what this is

this is the suicide squad review

there will be no spoilers so let’s do

this

erotic.com the suicide squad is a sequel

of sorts to suicide squad

although i think you have to see the

first movie to

at least know what’s going on in the

beginning of the second because they

rushed through that

a bit which i didn’t have a problem with

because i knew what was going on not

sure how that would play to somebody who

hasn’t seen the first film now as far as

the first film is concerned

it’s not very good i like the first 15

minutes i like the trailers

i liked elements of it but it fell apart

in the last i don’t know two-thirds or

maybe three quarters of the film

and air cut fans i hear you it wasn’t

david ayer’s fault i actually think he’s

a pretty damn good director hashtag

released the air cut

that being said ayers cut did most of

the heavy lifting for this film

as far as setting up the suicide squad

particularly

amanda waller played perfectly again by

viola davis

the gist of the film is some super

villains get some time off their

sentence if they go

on a super secret government mission and

it looks like james gunn tried to outdo

david ayer on the dc villain deep cuts

because

these were deep including weasel rat

catcher 2

and that’s a dc thing as well and polka

dot man

created by bill finger along with

harlequin

amanda waller rick flag captain

boomerang peacemaker

king shark the thinker savant tdk who

was armed fall off boy

black guard javelin mongol and we have

cameos

from calendar man double down and crazy

quilt and of course starro

but our main character is bloodsport on

the surface it might look a bit

cheesy that they replaced will smith’s

deadshot

with bloodsport i mean he has very

similar powers and the exact same

backstory

he has a daughter that is the motivation

for his character

but it ended up working just fine now

i liked will smith’s dead shot in the

first one and it would have been great

to have him back but idris alba did a

great job

and now my superman volume 2 number 4 by

john byrne might be worth money

the suicide squad belongs to three

people james gunn for

again getting heart and soul out of

characters you have no business getting

heart and soul out of

and they previously mentioned idris alba

as blood sport

i thought his powers and his tech was

actually pretty damn cool and i loved

his mask

and surprisingly the rat catcher 2

played by

daniela melicor certainly there’s a

couple things i have to hold my nose at

including

the kneeler john cena you know the one

who apologized to china

for saying taiwan is a country

by the way taiwan is a country and of

course there’s james gunn there’s the

controversy which we’ll talk about a

little bit later and yes he’s an

insufferable prick

on twitter but he’s a damn good

filmmaker and john cena

did a pretty good job as peacemaker but

the standout

is sylvester stallone’s king shark james

gunn did it again just like he did

with rocket raccoon he took a giant

flabby shark and made him hilarious

and endearing now aside from other

members of the cast that i’ll talk about

later joel kinnaman’s rick flagg was a

little bit

underused but he was great again and

margot robbie

was spectacular as harley quinn and she

wasn’t even the center of the film she

certainly gets her

set pieces and action scenes but again

this film centers around bloodsport and

rat catcher 2.

this is by far the best margot robbie

harlequin film her costume

is at least an homage to the animated

series

you are reminded that she is a psychotic

villain

i would call it the defining scene for

harley quinn it is

brutal and brilliant and because james

gunn was showing off he did birds of

prey

better than birds of prey again you’ll

know it when you see it now i don’t want

to make it sound like harley quinn isn’t

in the film she is

a lot but it just doesn’t center around

her she’s just

another member of the team and that’s

what makes it work

and i would be remiss if i didn’t

mention

the great peter capaldi as the thinker

who has

probably the single best line in the

film and again

you’ll know it when you hear it and

there’s polka dot man

played by david somebody i’m sorry i

forgot your name buddy

he did a really good job too the

performances

were what carried this film because

otherwise

there’s not a lot to it and there

doesn’t need to be my favorite part

about this film is it’s unapologetically

a comic book film and not just any comic

book film

a dc comic book film it made me feel

like i was reading

an 80s dc comic which is the sweet spot

for me

i mean this has starro in it and it

works it’s done perfectly there’s this

little line

at the end which i won’t spoil for you

which absolutely

makes the character and the best news of

all is this film

isn’t woke it isn’t filled with identity

politics

it isn’t preaching at you at any time

and it isn’t filled with

intersectional feminism look what

happens when you try hollywood look what

happens when you hire

a talented director and talented

storytellers

and this again is my favorite kind of

movie

one that is character driven we didn’t

need any

tricks or gimmicks like following a

macguffin or an unreliable narrator or

subversion of expectations give me a

giant

super intelligent hive mind zombie

making starfish

over a beam of light shooting up in the

sky any day

the film is funny it has heart yes

it earned its r rating it is gory as

hell and a lot of people die

and not that i need brilliant effects

and everything hell i’m a doctor who fan

but the

effects in this film were impressive now

is this film perfect no

the soundtrack for the first film is

better in my opinion and that’s a

surprise with the james gunn film

and the score is it’s adequate

it’s nothing i’m gonna remember my

biggest criticism with the film

is it gets a little slow at times kind

of like guardians of the galaxy vol 2.

especially in the middle and yeah for a

james gun joint i was expecting

something

a little more fast paced now the one

thing i found interesting and this is

for the snyder cup fans was that promo

they ran right before the film started

it showed

henry cavill superman and ben affleck’s

batman

prominently felt like a big tease warner

brothers should be kicking disney’s ass

right now as far as comic book films are

concerned and it

isn’t because it’s one of the dumbest

companies

in america and unfortunately we might

have seen

our last good dc film there might be one

more

out there the batman could possibly be

good my mind is open to it but

i’m not sure because of those jar jar

abrams connections and yes the destroyer

of franchises

is on his way to destroy yours right

after i saw this film i went in my

garage and dug out my

80s suicide squad run and i can’t wait

to rip through those things again

and this is exactly how i’m supposed to

feel after watching

a comic book film i want to go out and

read suicide squad comic books

i want to go buy the hot toys and i hope

there’s a king shark

blood sport peacemaker hell amanda

waller

rat catcher 2 polka dot man i would pay

good money for a 1

6 scale starro and i’m gonna see it

again in the theaters with my

boys and i’m gonna buy it on 4k that’s

what you call enthusiasm because i was

entertained and i wasn’t preached at so

surprise surprise i haven’t liked a

single marvel thing this year and the

two superhero movies i liked belonged to

dc

and yes one of them was the snyder cut

and the other

was the suicide squad when it comes to

james gunn

no i don’t like the guy very much i

think his views on cancel culture

are and he just so happens to

be a talented director and

a lot of talented directors are pricks i

mean anyone

who can make you feel anything about a

cgi rat or a walking and talking shark

guy

is unequaled in hollywood unfortunately

he can’t make you feel that same sort of

endearment

towards james gunn now the suicide squad

is not going to do very well in the box

office and it’s not going to get

anywhere near the numbers

of the first film and james gunn needs

to realize that one of the things that

factors into that low box office is how

the public

feels about him and i know this is going

to sound like a first world problem but

hbo max your platform

is garbage you need to work on that and

after watching suicide squad i don’t

think there’s any reason why warner

brothers can’t release

the air cut somewhere down the road

maybe in a year or so especially if it’s

done

i don’t give scores i’ll just say it was

really good

it’s not the best film ever made it’s

not even the best james gunn film

but it might be one of the best

superhero films

this year and again this is the one

advantage

warner brothers has on disney it can

make gory

rated r superhero films that are pretty

damn fun

unfortunately they don’t make them like

this anymore so i’m gonna enjoy this one

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