Making matters worse, far too much time is spent on Cara Delevingne’s June Moone/Enchantress character, who might well be mesmerizing and multilayered and daunting in the comics, but comes across as something out of a bad “Mummy” movie sequel here. On the plus side, “Suicide Squad” has no problem being bad.
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Along with Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and Slipknot (Adam Beach) this motley crew is pulled together by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) as Task Force X. The idea is to fight terrorist “meta-humans”, as superheroes are known in this world, with other meta-humans – the Diablos, Killer Crocs and other variously gifted, if morally corrupt loners. Even Viola Davis, an extraordinary actress, gives a shrug of a performance. Or so we’re told again and again. Angela Bassett played her in the forgettable Green Lantern in 2011.
Director David Ayer fired his long-time agency and rehired them the next day during Suicide Squad.
In “Bad Moms”, Mila Kunis plays Amy, a mother of two whose life comes crashing down when her marriage falls apart and her mom duties become almost unbearable.
After disappointing reviews for its spring tentpole “Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice”, Warner Bros.
One source claims that the script, also written by Ayer, was barely ready by the time the studio pinned a release date to the multi-villain project. Leverage against the members of the Suicide Squad is her superpower, and she uses it with razor-like precision.
When bubble gum-blowing anti-heroine Harley Quinn, played with wide-eyed lunacy by Margot Robbie, first demonstrates her capacity for mindless violence, a fellow misfit coos, “That is just a whole lot of pretty and a whole lot of insane”.
JARED Leto plans to “walk away” from acting. He does so quite well. This Joker feels younger, with a street edge and a slight gangster swag that we haven’t seen before, and like every Joker, he’s always one step ahead of everyone. What makes this Joker tick? Suicide Squad, by contrast, unfolds so erratically that I felt not as though I was going along for a ride but that I was, instead, trapped in my own prison cell. Flag is the basic army man, though his relationship with Deadshot makes for an intriguing look at their characters as they’re basically counterpoints to each other, but that relationship is also not exploited to its fullest potential.
“Suicide Squad” is looking at a possibly record-breaking August opening, so it appears that Smith is back on target, just like his character in the film.
Robbie (centre) with co-stars Jai Courtney (left) and Will Smith.
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Many critics have panned the film, with Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair calling it “too shoddy and forgettable to even register as revolting”. Suicide Squad, by contrast, is little more than a drab patchwork, its stitching the only thing uglier than the cloth.
