12 Burning Questions For the Makers of Suicide Squad
Christopher Campbell
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I liked the movie a lot. Sure there are some questions and as someone that is familiar to the source material it’s harder to judge what seemed to not work onscreen. I thought it was rushed in a few spots, but we are into a well established genre now, so scenes of Midway City destruction are probably as redundant as Deadshot’s gun demonstration. Ten years ago sure. The gun demo did have a payoff with the interplay with Flag and Waller. Did we need a demo of everyone else? Besides what made Deadshot more special than the grunts with guns going in? That’s why it was there IMO. Harley ran against Batman and is a sociopath and no one would miss her if she was swept under the rug. Even the Enchantress bits, brief, but what else do you really need to know? She was kind of like Illyria from the last few episodes of Angel. An old entity displaced by time, angry because the world now worships machines. The part with June calling Enchantress was her manipulating the events behind the scene, the relationship is similar to Banner and the Hulk, neither wants to subvert to their alter ego. I thought that was straightforward though many reviews lamented the character development of the villain.

I see this movie closer to a Deadpool or Kickass type of film than a Nolan effort. Not a film with a capital “F”, but certainly entertaining and rewatchable. I also appreciated the world building as more matter of fact than tacked on as in the Batman V Superman effort.