So in short, don’t expect these superhero movies to go away any time soon. It’s always a moving target as you try and distill and condense down to the best movie. The decades-spanning anthology of tough-guy (and gal) songs on the soundtrack is another sign of a filmmaking team that knows its film needs some artificial respiration.
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A source familiar with the matter told Business Insider that because of China’s censorship of stories with a negative outlook on life, it has passed on including the movie in its upcoming releases. Jared Leto, fresh off his Oscar win for “Dallas Buyers Club”, would be the latest actor to don the Joker’s makeup. So in short, callous government official Amanda Waller comes up with the idea to use a bunch of supervillians – Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and Captain Boomerang among them – as a task force against threats too big for normal military or police to handle.
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As for Quinn, she is insane and screwed up.
The film boasts an A-list cast including Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood and Cara Delevingne.
While DC’s Extended Universe-the live-action, cinematic realm-expands considerably with the addition of a diverse gang of supervillains in the David Ayer film, it resorts to narrative and visual clichés that keep it from becoming truly spectacular. Guardians of the Galaxy of course. Suicide Squad – boasting a friendlier PG-13 rating – has been ravaged by critics and now suffers a 26 percent rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Was DC course correcting already?
If anything, Ayer said, he got upgrades. With the new version of the villain played off as more insane rather than the megalomaniac portrayed by Heath Ledger, Leto only gets a small amount of screentime to fully reveal his character, which does little to put an end to the fan’s divide, but makes a good case for future reprisals. On the surface you are meant to see them as psychotic villains, but through the genuine performances by these two you really see that they are just a couple in love.
Speaking of the Scarlet Speedster, there are future Justice League members who appear, helping imbue a sense of connectedness and a lighter vibe, leaving behind the deliberate dourness of the recent “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice“. The critically derided “Fantastic Four” reboot bombed, but others have thrived.
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Universal’s newest Bourne film collected nearly $6.6 million on Friday, bringing its estimated eight-day gross to just under $87.3 million.
