It's suicide to waste your money on this overly hyped production

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2016)

Director/Writer David Ayer's (Fury - 2014) takes his turn at yet another DC comic-book to film project. With the less than successful track record of this genre of films, one can only ponder why Hollywood keeps making them. Regardless, Ayer's cast a bevy of Hollywood personalities (Will Smith, Jared Leto, Viola Davis, Common, Jay Hernandez, Adele Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Margot Robbie and Robin Atkin Downes), all with their own corny DC comic-book names, to destroy a super entity that is in search of its heart - really? The only thing missing from this possibly plausible fantasy film is Spiderman swooping in to the rescue. Note: Batman is present in more ways than one. While the main characters are given a timestaking introduction of their vicious deeds to establish their greed, when gathered together they end up being nothing more than a bunch of semi-polite con- artists caught between a rock and a hard place, or in this case caught between guns and a killer cellphone App. Unfortunately, their is no need here to highlight who is the most exciting villain, because they are all equally boring, over acted, or just down right not interesting. Not helping matters is Ayer's dialogue, that comes across as nothing more than a bunch of one liners tied together to make plot. The special and visual effects are nothing new, and sometime the cinematography is too fake (look for the scene where the camera is behind a solider looking down on the city in the helicopter, or when Harley Quinn is making her escape, I could go on!). While "Suicide Squad" is a DC comic stable (so I heard), the excessive use of guns and violence in the film is far from child proof. It's suicide to waste your money on this overly hyped production.