Suicide watch...

Rating: 1/10 (26 April 2017)

There was a time (for me) when a darkened movie house offered Sanctuary from The Real World and all its attendant Horrors; when refuge could be found in Alternate Realities, from the Old West to the depths of Deep Space. Prior to my discovery of alternatives Cinematic, I found escape in the pages of comic books. One eventually gave way to the other, and these days the two are as One. Sorta. For some reason, however, movies these days tend to be far, far LESSER than the comics that inspired them. An odd dichotomy, especially when one takes into account the basic Visual Nature of both. You know the movie's in trouble when a gun-wielding character called "Deadshot" can't even put a round through one of the eye-holes or even the unprotected lower half of Batman's face-mask. Later, in a totally pointless (not to mention gratuitously extended) scene, we see this "dead-eye Dick" blasting away with an arsenal of firearms. While I'm sure there were weapons enthusiasts who got off on this scene, for the rest of us, there was nothing much going on (a lot of noise, but little else). There are so many such instances throughout this stinker that it's nigh impossible to list them all (so I'm not even going to try). It IS interesting to note that the money-man behind this one was The Foreclosure King himself (Mnuchin the Money Munchkin), whose greatest claim to fame is that he once foreclosed on a 90-year old woman who failed to pay something like 25 CENTS on her mortgage.