Committing Career and Box office Suicide (Squad)

Rating: 4/10 (1 November 2016)

Many of the recent superhero movies to come out have actually been of surprisingly good quality. The writing can be a little pedestrian, a little (verging on painfully) predictable given the level of self-awareness and emotional depth of the demographic it is produced for. Having said that, usually the writing is of such a quality as to allow us to at least appreciate the acting or, failing that, the neon pyrotechnic spectacle of effects unencumbered by clumsy, sophomoric narrative flailing.
Suicide Squad bears no such considerations. The writing is so flagrantly unconcerned with its own substance as to be an indictment of the intelligence of the viewer - as if it was written out of the spite the writer feels for his own audience. The actors seem to sense this and end up either acting along out of impotent despair (as seen in professional pornography) or callously insulting indifference (as seen in crime re-enactments). Whatever the motives of those involved in nearly every aspect of this production the message of the movie is the same: the sarcastic yet sincere suggestion that the viewer who has consummated watching this film can only have done so out of a stupidity so comprehensive and abiding as to be unable to realize the threat it poses and so, for the good of all existence should commit suicide. There is no redemption for us, for by our willingness to endure such an obvious and grave insult to what is most noble within us we have tacitly endorsed the position that we deserve death, that we too have become irretrievably lost.
There is only one way out now. Ha ha ha. How else could we too become the "Worst. Heroes. Ever."