Quick Review of 'Suicide Squad'

You know what? Forget what everybody thinks. I think Suicide Squad is actually quite entertaining, better than Batman v Superman! When I looked at the 26% Rotten Tomatoes rating and the reviews stating that this suffered too much editing problems or a "muddled plot", I almost feared that it was gonna be like Green Lantern/Fant4stic-bad as one review would state. But when I finally got to see it last night with my sister, almost everything in that film actually got me quite satisfied even with some things that Warner Bros. and DC still needs to absolutely work on. So there we have in a world where Superman died from the Doomsday battle, and the government including the big boss of "Task Force X" herself Amanda Waller (better than the utterly-wasted Angela Bassett in the Ryan Reynolds GL film) are considering the alternatives of who they should use to defend the world from any possible off-world threat since the events of the first two DCEU starters. And that's when the Suicide Squad was born when some ancient supernatural force like the oh-so-sexy-but-weird-looking Enchantress threatens to bring total annihilation upon our world. The supervillains introduced in the Squad, minus Slipknot, have some brilliant chemistry amongst each other and are actually more fleshed out than ever instead of us seeing them as cheap evil villains. At least that it doesn't always take itself way too seriously when there's some parts where the added humor is necessary instead of awkwardly forced like the Iron Man sequels or Thor 2. The songs included made it look like it's Guardians of the Galaxy, except in a more twisted way when it comes to a supervillain-only movie. Deadshot, Harley Quinn, El Diablo, and Killer Croc are the biggest standouts of the Suicide Squad movie! But my favorite out of all of them are of course Harley Quinn, because Margot Robbie - she's hot and really acted like she had fun playing the character who dearly loves the Joker (A.K.A. Mr. J or "Puddin'") so much! I'm not even sure who's the hottest babe in this film? Her, the Enchantress, or the sword-wielding Japanese newbie Katana? Sometimes, I feel like I can't help but think to myself that the Enchantress (Cara Delvingne) is extremely hot due to her seductive bare-nakedness! And I believe that Will Smith really pulled off his Deadshot character, delivering some entertaining one-liners and having a tragic backstory of him trying to be with his daughter before getting arrested for the murders he committed as a hired hitman. He probably should have signed up and starred in the Independence Day sequel. But by the end of the movie as the Suicide Squad faces off with the Enchantress, things got a little interesting when El Diablo unleashes his true power by enlarging himself into some giant behemoth on fire! What really works and saved most of Suicide Squad from suffering from the studio-meddling problems was probably the music score composed by Academy Award-winner of Gravity Steven Price. For example, the part when Deadshot was about to fire his gun at the explosives to destroy Enchantress while conflicted by his daughter begging him not to pull the trigger and turn into the man she might be scared of. How emotional can you be? If they didn't hype up some stuff like the presence of Jared Leto's Joker, then this movie would have actually gotten some decent reviews instead of bad ones that make it out like it was a movie not worth seeing which I don't believe. But I would definitely kill (figure of speech) for some extended scenes that will really develop some stuff that should have been anything but cheap exposition like Harleen Quinzel's transformation into Harley Quinn. But at least we have the Batman: TAS "Mad Love" episode to better understand the Joker/Harley Quinn relationship. Heck, I would be happy to see what scenes, originally seen in trailers and TV spots, that have the Joker were cut out just to make us care about the Jared Leto version! I'm glad that the Batman we see in Suicide Squad is none other than Ben Affleck, who eventually tells Amanda Waller in the mid-credits scene to cease her Task Force X activities to let the Justice League handle the situations. Oh, and did I forget to mention about the Ezra Miller Flash cameo in the Capt. Boomerang flashback? Let's pray that the hiring of Geoff Johns & Jon Berg post-BvS/SS will mean that the DC Extended Universe will be just as good as the now-too-formulaic Marvel Cinematic Universe. Cue the Bohemian Rhapsody/Ballroom Blitz/Sucker for Pain, etc. song, evildoers! Glad that I'm not as underwhelmed as my first viewing of the theatrical version of BvS! I just think this summer could have been better if only it wasn't so full of financially-disappointing and critically-reviled films.