What made Suicide Sqaud so bad?

 4 years ago Suicide squad was released to cinemas globally to...... mixed recption. On the whole fans were not pleased with David Ayer had produced and, while it was better than Batman v Superman, it just felt like a mess. However I seem to come away from it more negative than most ( which is odd for a so called DC-Fanboy ). But why was it so bad ? Well don't be suprised to hear that I have avoided this movie as much as possible since my last rewatch, but be best assured that the memory of it is certainly scolded into my brain.

Suicide squad was supposed to be a fresh start for DC, we had new characters on film which for the most part were brand new to screens let alone cinema. Not to mention a star studded cast and large production value this was surley going to be an instant fan favorite. Cue Dawn of justice. Most will remeber the heavily negative reception when that was released ( at which point I was fairly posotive so to say ) which  set alarm bells ringing at DC. Where are we going wrong? It can't be the story or the characters becuase everyone must have loved that, right? Most executive fingers pointed at Zac Snyders gritty tone, maybe audiences didn't want a dark hero movie anymore, and eyes most certainly looked over at the recent success of Guardians of the Galaxy as inspiration for tone. And so they reshot most of Suicide squad, more precisly the first third of the film. what resulted was such a disjointed collection of tones throughout the movie that it felt more like a failed Artsy Fartsy film than a major motion picture. You struggle to work out what the film is acutally about, with needlesy dark parts covered lighly in a thin veil of comedy, With such a basic story ( which boils down to "get the thing" ) it was hard to ignore it and ultimatley onl made worse the so called " issue " they had in the first place.

Next we move on to chracters (*sigh*). The sheer density of cheracters introduced in this film is immense, and for the most part wasted. To draw an example, Oceans 11 is a brillaint example of how to make a proper ensemble movie. Each character has a purpose, and you don't feel like you don't know why they are there. In Suicide Squad you generally forget some characters exist in that movie until they are given the most menial of task that " only they can do for some obscure reason ". By then end of the film you have no actual care for anyone, no matter how emotional their storyline supposedly got. Then we move onto Jared Leto's Joker. While it wasn't a great portrayal of the character in the first place, the whole thing wasn't essential or even necessary to the film. He is in Harley Quinn flashbacks, resuces Harley, dumps her out a helicopter, rescues her again and end of film. What's the point?! you could have just had him at the end of the movie, making the reveal so much more meaningful. Thats exactly what made Darth Vader so great in Rogue one, he was drip fed to you in the film until a big reveal at the end! This is the equivelant of Vader being in every scene of Rogue one no matter how stupid it is. Overall the only characters who serve anything to the film is Will Smith's Deadshot and Margot Robbies' Harely Quinn, who's shoulders must have been weary after carrying the whole story.

Finally we do get to the afformentioned story, or as little a story there is. In fairness the film starts well to get the ball rolling, but after about 30 minutes in it falls flat on its face, with basic logic defying everything that happens. By the end of the film the whole premise is so played out it feels like your watching Groundhog day. People being in the squad, not being in the squad, back in the squad. By the end of the film your glad when a character dies because at least they're not going to be a part of the squad again. Don't even get me started on the villain, which is some of the laziest writing of an antagonist I've seen in a long time. Ben Stiller's gym coach from dodgeball was a better written bady than whatver the villain was. The relationship with standard soldier guy was so boring and unemotional it was like watching the romantic story of a man whose laptop decides to stop working and he tries ever so hard to get it back. And then at the end of the film they're ack in prison, as if this whole sharade could have been avoided. You could just watch the ending scene and still get a sense of what this movie accounted to.

When this came out I was disappointed. Now it just makes me downright angry. When the time comes to do a DCEU watchthrough this will be the one where I'm probably playing a mobile game in the background. It's dull, stupid and mostly pointless, the best part of the movie being the setup for the next movie in the series ( another disappointment in the form of Justice League ). Let's hope that JAmes Gunn can do this concept justice next year.

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