Suicide Club.

Rating: 4/10 (23 April 2017)

Spending a week taking care of ill family members,I decided to say thanks to a friend for helping out by getting them some beers and a DVD. Recently learning that she has been catching up on Will Smith's old movies on Netflix UK,I decided to get her Smith's most recent blockbuster,which led to me joining the Suicide Squad.
The plot:
After the death of Superman, intelligence officer Amanda Waller decides to get dangerous criminals Deadshot,Killer Croc,Slipknot, Captain Boomerang,El Diablo and Harley Quinn to form a group to help government forces. Accepting Waller's offer after getting offered sentence reductions,the gang discover that a person who Waller approached to join them,has become a super-villain.
View on the film:
Gathering up a group of Punk outcasts,the screenplay by writer/director David Ayer pulls the strings down on the unique elements of each Squad member,to instead trap them in a vague race against time adventure,with the bare minimum of Comic-Book pulp.With the studio not building a background to the Squad in solo flicks,Ayer spends the opening on the origins back to back,which ends up making them each just feel like another cog in the franchise.
Whilst the soundtracks strays on the misjudged,director Ayer & cinematographer Roman Vasyanov display the pulp comic/animated roots of the characters in an eye-catching fashion of grubby spandex,from Harley Quinn's naughty,but nice suggestive costume,to the mighty roar of Killer Croc. Extensively re-filmed, Ayer makes the production issues all too visible,as would-be action set-pieces are covered in a dark blue which adds to the vagueness of the mission,and saturated coloured flashbacks are randomly chucked in,that feel like a last ditch shot at giving the gang members some background.
Going "method" for the movie, Jared Leto makes his Joker be a street "gangsta",whose silver gums and tattoos are symbols of his street cred,and not a psychological component to the character. Joined by a welcomed,wise-cracking Will Smith as Deadshot, sexy Margot Robbie steals the movie with a baseball bat attack as Harley Quinn,with Robbie tangling the dangerously playful Punk wild card edge of Quinn,with an underlying,quick-witted side of making sure the Suicide Squad don't join the suicide club.