According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Suicide Squad” is outpacing both “Guardians” and “Deadpool” in numerous now 40 foreign markets.
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Fan support has been strong with almost 4 million followers for the “Suicide Squad” Facebook page.
Clockwise from left: Margot Robbie, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joel Kinnaman, Will Smith, Jai Courtney and Karen Fukuhara. The problem for Deadshot, and the rest of the Suicide Squad, is that he’s locked up serving a life sentence for his many sins. Still, the film is clearly a vehicle for the three aforementioned actors to do their thing, so it’s no surprise that they’re given a lot of attention.
The worst heroes ever just scored the best August preview ever, with “Suicide Squad” raking in $20.5 million Thursday night at the domestic box office. She is convincing as the super sexy, super tough, and super conflicted better half of The Joker.
Suicide Squad, the new DC comic-book-to-movie adaptation, can be fun for a few minutes, but the characters in this misguided superhero flick can’t sustain the energy or enthusiasm.
Sadly, most of the movie’s funniest moments have already been seen in the trailer.
Were you disappointed by The Joker’s lack of screen time in Suicide Squad? There’s no time to absorb the arc of the plot because we’re constantly flashing back and forth, providing character history and motivation.
In the film, she’s the kind of character who cackles gleefully after surviving a harrowing helicopter crash, and coyly asks “What?!” after changing into some skintight hot trousers in front of dozens of men.
Leto’s off-screen obsession with getting into character as Joker has been well-documented at this point, but despite all of that preparation, he never quite manages to convey a real sense of danger lurking beneath the character’s outrageous appearance.
And as the Joker, Leto is a worthy successor to Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger.
I would say Jared Leto embarrasses himself, if I thought Jared Leto capable of being embarrassed.
It’s the tone of the film, however, that’s the biggest letdown.
Going by the way he was prominently featured in the marketing campaign, you’d be forgiven for expecting Jared Leto’s Joker to be one of the main players in Warner Bros.’ latest DC Films release, Suicide Squad. The reshoot report was denied by the studio, and the final cut of the film seems to confirm the studio’s response, as it’s decidedly light on laughs. The movie then collapses into a mess of effects scenes, shootouts and chaos as our antiheroes are dispatched to Midway City (DC’s version of Chicago but really a digitally redressed Toronto) to battle an army of metalloid zombies.
Of those, I recommend Cloverfield, Mr. Holmes, No Country for Old Men, High-Rise, Batman: The Killing Joke, Inside Llewyn Davis, and The Matrix.
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It received a PG-13 rating in the US. It’s not as bad as some of the reviews are indicating but at the same time it’s not that good. For a movie whose sole objective for being is to appeal to ravenous comic book fans, “Suicide Squad” does a piss poor job of fulfilling that reason to be. It’s in the downtime, in which the characters vamp, grouse and chat, that the film’s spirit truly comes into its own.
