Great movie with a fun cast and plot

Rating: 8/10 (7 August 2016)

Suicide Squad opens up a lot of potential for future comic book movies. If you're a fan of the comic team then watch this movie and ignore the critics. I am all over the Joker man. That chase scene in the beginning made me so happy. Their origins completely showed the abuse of Harley by Joker during her origin and it also showed Joker's very sentimental side for Harley. Also, people may be more upset by how Joker is more of a pimp now but their characters are just like something off of one of the Arkham games, I'll use that as reference. Especially with Joker being a gangbanger because as we know, Penguin, Joker, and Black Mask own the biggest gangs in Gotham. He was clearly psychopathic and clearly different than other versions. Their love for one another felt exactly like something we should have seen. Deadshot was very well written. I'm going to keep it short though. The one thing I liked about his character is how his character and his daughter took a lot of inspiration from the comics. I'd say Will Smith brought the character more to life than the CW version. Speaking of bringing characters to life, let's talk about Captain Boomerang. Like this Digger Harkness has to be one of the best criminals I've seen to date, he tried to take every option to get out of the action as he could. He played the petty criminal who was all in it for the money and didn't give a damn about the plot. He was all in it for himself which is a very Captain Boomerang thing to do given he's apart of the rogues. PLUS WE GOT THE FLASH IN THAT ONE SCENE. THE EFFING FLASH. I'm sorry Grant Gustin, I love you but that was a monumental moment. Something I'll never forget is how well these movies are connected. Diablo's origin was so well written. They gave a lot of exposition for his character. The fight between him and Incubus had to be the best action sequence yet. It was so unexpected too. Slipknot had to be the most stupid character. He served only as a filler to give emphasis on the whole bomb implant, in other words...we knew he was going to die. Now, here's what I liked about the movie. I liked how the plot was something that no other big comic book movie has ever tackled before. Like in every Marvel movie you see, it always has to do with the main protagonist for example Thor and Loki in Avengers, Ultron and Stark, Captain America and Bucky, or Ant-Man and Yellowjacket. And it's always the same plot, "Oh, I'm going to wipe out humanity, destroy the world, cause wars, etc." It was never about ruling the world but it takes it to another extreme. It references largely on the Nightshade Odyssey, probably the most famous Suicide Squad comic. This movie wasn't afraid to even feature the Alex Ross scene. This movie wasn't afraid to go realllly deep in comic lore. I mean really deep. I am going to make one comparison is that it's a lot like Guardians of the Galaxy because all of these characters who aren't connected in anyway come together. Except in Guardians, you probably didn't know who most of them were. In this, you knew most of the characters. It was all about interpretation. I said it before but I really like how connected these movies are so far, even in the after credits scene you had Bruce Wayne which supports a lot of my original expectations. This movie wasn't a clone copy of Assault on Arkham and had the most unique plot line and casting of any movie I have scene. I feel like this is a huge evolution for movies that critics just don't see. Another thing I really liked was how the movie never gave any of the plot away in the trailers. They cut most of the scenes from the trailers out as well. Most people thought Enchantress was on the Squad's side but surprise, surprise it was completely different. That's what I loved about this movie is if it went one way, it'd go another. Like, we thought Diablo was going to get his ass kicked by the demon or whatever but he actually kicked ass with a new ability. Now, it's time for improvements. I personally think the movie had A LOT of pacing errors. I'm not trying to sound like I didn't like how it flowed, it flowed really nice for the most part. But the pacing is what got me. The backgrounds, the origins, they were very meaningful, very detailed, and made me like their characters but felt out of place with the current scenario. The directing was great but I felt like it could have done better. I speak that for all movies though. I feel like any amount of directing for any movie could always be better. But Ayers for the most part did great. What I originally thought was that Joker was going to be a completely different plot. He was however. Except he was a side plot who gave weight into some of the main plot. His main improvements could have been giving him more screen time even though he got enough. I thought in my own opinion after watching the movie was that Joker and Harley should escape and then the Taskforce is sent out again to imprison both of them which gives way to a new plot where we might get an Assault on Arkham plot which would really show the "spy" side of Taskforce X. It makes sense, especially with a lot of Joker scenes cut from the trailers. Though I think I'll leave it right there.. This movie gives a lot of potential for future comic book movies and I enjoyed this more than other films this year. You should definitely check it out.