Not much of a Redemption for DC fans

Rating: 6/10 (5 August 2016)

SUICIDE SQUAD - My plan for today was to watch two back to back movies , but watching SUICIDE SQUAD made me so much exhausted that i canceled my plan for the second film. And by exhausted i didn't mean by tiredness but by frustration. Things are not working for DC universe. Its all started really well with MAN OF STEEL , but DAWN OF JUSTICE disappointed and same goes for suicide squad. David AYER as director didn't faulted but as a writer he did a bad job. He has done some good writing before(FURY , END OF WATCH,U-571,TRAINING DAY) but he has done some bad writing too (2nd part of fast and furious series , yes the worst one and SABOTAGE , one of the worst movies having ARNOLD as hero). SUICIDE SQUAD fall in the 2nd category.
SUICIDE SQUAD is a very limited movie as long as we talk about its scope. Let me tell you the story(obviously in brief and only that part which already have been showed in 4 trailers of this movie). A team of bad villains has been organized. A good half an hour has been spent on their introduction using some colorful visuals. Then one of those recruit ENCHANTRESS goes bad and want to destroy the world. So our team land on the city where this villain making some machine (which the movie never explain that what will it do if made completely) to extinct the human race. Then they fight and they win , and the story ends. SHOCKING RIGHT! i know , but that's the truth. There was no plot , its just the intro , then some comic moment and then the mission. O yes i forgot , there were some back stories too to make us connected to the characters , but non of it worked. Think of this, the movie first promoted itself as a group of bad people come together to do something good , then the movie tries to justifies that those people are not actually bad , but just the victim of bad situation, i mean how does this work does anybody think of that. Why cant they create some GREY characters who have conflicted hidden motives , why they have to show villain as good persons. It doesn't make sense. More then half of the movie is the mission they have been appointed for , that could also have been a nice entertaining movie , only if we have got some exceptional action sequences , but the movie lacks that too. Its just gunshot , some punches , some baseball bat shots and yes some fire (which is among the good visuals). A time when MARVEL movies are making us stun with fast martial arts and chasing sequences , DC universe is still stuck with old slow motion style action. I mean at the climax one of our hero throws a bomb towards the villain , and that bomb literally took almost 30 second too reach the villain. The selection of villain was bad too. Non of our heroes have superpower except DIABLO who had the ability to generate fire. And they still gave
competition to a 6000 years old witch with exceptional superpowers. Imagine VOLDEMORT defeated by gunshot and rocket launchers of BATMAN , it literally felt like that. It was actually a shame for ENCHANTRESS to get defeated by SUICIDE SQUAD. We get two very small scenes of BATMAN. And those two scenes along with JUSTICE LEAGUE trailer make me realize that m actually in that state where i can get rid of the thing that Christian BALe is the best BATMAN , and i actually started liking Ben Afflecks. But same cant be said abound THE JOKER. He was a really small part of this movie. Not even a part of main plot, just as a side villain who comes and go in between the main plot. I didn't like this version of JOKER. Not at least in this small role. The humor word well . But cant say same about all the dialogues. take this as an example - A 6000 years old witch say to one of our Hero when he trying to kill her - YOU DO NOT HAVE THE BALLS TO DO IT. Really? Is that the way a witch must talk. Action scenes although didn't worked well but the visuals are good. But the darkness of the night scenes ruined it too. Bad cinematography. Which was disappointing because i was kind of liking the 3D at first. As i said the humor worked ,so at least the first half didn't bore. But the lack of any exceptional set piece bore you in the 2nd half. I don't even know how this story-line is gonna be connected to the main JUSTICE LEAGUE story-line. After watching this the whole DC universe seems so unplanned to me. WARNER BROS needs to do some serious thinking on it. 6.3/10 by ANuP APu KuMaR