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Rating: 6.5 stars

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Suicide Squad (2016)

Directed by David Ayer

Action | Science Fiction | Fantasy

Most recently watched by CaptainBigTime, AllAboutSteve, sensoria, lordofthemovies, archstanton43, zombiefreak, schofizzy

Overview

From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.

Rated PG-13 | Length 122 minutes

Actors

Will Smith | Jared Leto | Margot Robbie | Joel Kinnaman | Viola Davis | Jai Courtney | Jay Hernandez | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Cara Delevingne | Ike Barinholtz | Scott Eastwood | Adam Beach | Karen Fukuhara | Common | David Harbour | Jim Parrack | Alex Meraz | Corina Calderon | Ben Affleck | Ezra Miller | Robin Atkin Downes | Shailyn Pierre-Dixon | Matt Baram | Alain Chanoine | Ted Whittall | Michael Murray | Jaime FitzSimons | Christopher Dyson | Bambadjan Bamba | Robert B. Kennedy | Billy Otis | James McGowan | Derek Perks | Aidan Devine | Andrew Bee | Clive McLean | Frank J. Zupancic | Kent Sheridan | Roger Shank | Dwight Ireland | Amanda Brugel | Peter Tufford Kennedy | Rosemary De Los Santos | Kevin Hanchard | Joel Lacoursiere | Jameson Kraemer | Ho Chow | Birgitte Solem | Kevin Vance | Tyler Grey | Nathan Brown | Kenneth Choi | Nicolas Van Burek | Agueda Cardenas | Daniela Uruena | Nicolas Uruena | Ariane Bellamar | Murray Urquhart | Tim Ajro | Devlin Anderson | Briana Andrade-Gomes | Raffi Atamian | John Byers | Heather Byrne | Corey Chainey | Shak Chaudhry | James Chilli Chillingworth | Andrew Christie | Alex Chung | Gavin R. Downes | Reid Eastwood | Scott Edgecombe | Brendan Egan | Jeff Ellenberger | Tatyana Figueiredo | Gary 'Si-Jo' Foo | Tazito Garcia | Brianna Goldie | William Hainsworth | Shawn J. Hamilton | Shane Harbinson | Fatimah Hassan | Dexter Howe | Melanie Hubert | David Ingram | Shane Clinton Jarvis | Sergio Kato | Kevin Kent | Martin Kessler | Melissa Lem | John MacDonald | Stephanie Manchulenko | Matthew Mease | Christopher Meneses | Valiant Michael | Sabine Mondestin | Justin Moses | Drew Moss | Afsheen Olyaie | Dan Petronijevic | Alisha Phillips | Tamina Pollack-Paris | Michael Prather | Dennisha Pratt | Asad Que | Mark Quigley | Darryl Quon | Hugh Scott | Attila Sebesy | Rick Silver | Connor Skific | Amos Stern | Goran Stjepanovic | Vivienne Taylor | Jasmine Renée Thomas | Alen Toric | Dallas Wade | Joe Warshaw | James Weicht | Taylor Whittaker | Robert L. Wilson | Ryan Groves | Tony Watt

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Wanted to revisit before seeing Birds of Prey this week. Haven’t seen since it was in theater on release. Wasn’t crazy about it then but enjoyed it more on this viewing, esp. DeadShot (Will Smith) and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). Both are so good and so funny they carry the movie over the dry spots and almost make up for the awful Joel Kinnaman performance. He’s just not good for this part and drags down every scene he’s in, which is a lot! Feels like they needed a better counterweight to Smith’s DeadShot, kinda how The Rock was for the Fast & Furious films.

Fortunately the charisma and presence of DeadShot and Quinn are exceptional and really make this even worth viewing. I laughed at nearly every thing Harley says even if it’s just an “oh?” Back when BOP was announced I questioned the need for that but this viewing of SS confirms that she totally deserves her own film. I’d also like a DeadShot film as well. I’m gutted that he won’t be in James Gunn’s Suicide Squad. I do love that Will Smith is top billed in this movie.

What really tanks this film is the terrible story. Just a gobbledygook of a dumb fetch and rescue mission that is so goofy especially when you pull back the lens. Amanda Waller wants to create the SS yet also creates the situation that results in using the SS? I just hate the entire Enchantress and her brother plot point (Enchantress herself is fine but her purpose here is wasted). I hate when Flag breaks the tracker and tells the team they are free to go. WTF it makes no sense. Then to have the entire SS team go “sure let’s go do this thing even tho we might be killed.” Every damn one of them would’ve bailed if they knew they were free from having their heads blown off. That bar scene is great, tho.

Watched the extended cut and really have no idea what was added since I could barely recall most of the minor details from my first watch 4 years ago. Maybe it was the Harley / Joker stuff? Most ppl are down on Leto’s Joker but I’m fine with it and his performance. I like the relationship between them.

Depending on how I feel after BOP I may watch the theatrical cut. I just really love Will Smith and Margot Robbie in this. Shit, I should watch FOCUS again and pretend it’s really Deadshot and Harley Quinn. There’s a animated SS flick that I think I enjoyed. I may have to view that again.

This viewing also made me sad that we won’t get Affleck as Batman again. I dig his portrayal of the character.

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