Suicide Squad - Movie 2016

Suicide Squad
by David Ayer
6.3/10

Set in the aftermath of Superman's death, Suicide Squad is the story of the most infamous and dangerous criminals who can be used to do something good. Following Superman's death the world has now become a hostile place and people are concerned about the measures taken against the invasion of another Kryptonian or any other Supernatural being for that fact. Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) assembles Task Force X under the Argus Programme mainly consisting of : Deadshot (Will Smith) the most lethal marksman in the world, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) a psycho killer and Joker's accomplice, El-Diablo (Jay Hernandez) a fire generating ex-gangster, Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) a hybrid Crocodile/Man, Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) a petty thief and Slipknot (Adam Beach) an assassin. The whole squad is placed under Colonel Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) who is also currently in a relationship with one of Waller's other captive Dr. June Moon (Cara Delevingne). Dr June is possessed by an evil witch-goddess within her, named Enchantress whose heart is in control of Amanda Waller, one night she tries to confront Waller but instead frees her brother Incubus and they both attack Midway City, which is soon declared as Ground Zero. This is where the Task Force is brought in to terminate the witch and a nano explosive is implanted in each ones neck to avoid anyone from escaping. The whole team is met with a horde of monsters on their way who were turned by Enchantress from civilians. Meanwhile the Joker (Jared Leto) is going crazy in Harley's absence and is ready to do anything to get her back.
Yet another disappointment by DC Comics in producing another pathetic movie after Dawn of Justice (still better).
The main problem here which I find quite disturbing is the choice of the main villain, I mean what good is Deadshot with his guns and Harley with her bat against a Supernatural God, the resources were not very well used by the director in the movie. A poor job by David Ayer.
A lot of praises for Will Smith and Margot Robbie as they both did an outstanding job with both the characters, Deadshots killer style and Harley's psychotic personality. Viola Davis herself best as ever and always gives her character her unique touch.
The other villains seemed not so effective and did a "Ok" job.
The Joker was in very simple words "BAD", Jared Leto did not do a good job with Joker's psychotic and sociopath personality, lets get one thing straight the Joker is not a Gangster or some kind of Underworld Don, he is a lone working individual with a f'd up brain.
The real sorrow is that with all the resources and material a good quality movie was not produced.
My favourite part of the movie is where Deadshot portrays his skills to Waller and says the following line, "Y'all jokers must be crazy".

Reviewed by,
Moiz Khan.