Not Great, Not Horrible

Rating: 6/10 (13 December 2016)

Recently I went out to the movies and saw the film "Suicide Squad". Overall I enjoyed the movie a lot but there were also some critical errors. Before seeing the movie, I had watched previews of it and in the previews there was pretty much non-stop action. After seeing how good the commercials were for the movie, I thought that the whole movie was going to be non-stop action when in reality the movie was very slow to pick up and there was not nearly as much action in it as the previews had suggested, they had just put the all the small pieces of high intensity action into the couple minute previews, creating a lot of hype for the movie when in reality it was not like the previews at all. Another thing that I did not like about this film was how they sexualized Harley Quinn in it. Her costume consisted of a belly shirt that read "Daddy's Lil Monster", sparkly booty shorts and fishnet stockings. This portrayed her as a highly sexualized character and distracted from her story line, or lack of it. I also thought that the music choice for this film is one of the only good decisions they made. The entire film was full of songs that the audience would be excited about, such as Bohemian Rhapsody, so instead of organically creating the excitement the director stole the hype from the song. There were a couple things I did like about this film such as the intense special effects. With any superhero movie there must be amazing special effects and this movie did just that. My favorite part of the film was when "El Diablo" a character in the film whose power was that he can control fire was when he turned into a giant fire monster and fought the bad guy in the end. I thought that they did a good job on the effects for his character in that part of the film, it was very detailed and intricate and I was sad when he died. Another scene with good special effects was when they were all in the helicopter heading toward the center of the city to stop the Enchantress, and the helicopter was hit and they all went down. This scene was very detailed was captivating.