After watching the new summer film, Suicide Squad, I realized I gave it more hype than I should have. By the end of the film I was left with wishy-washy emotions about this most anticipated film of the summer.
I was very careful to not read any spoiler comments on any social media for the 24 hours I had to wait before I saw the film after its release. I went into the movie theatre excited and surprised how full the theatre had gotten for a film about anti-heroes.
Right away, I did not like how the film began. It featured most of the members of the Suicide Squad in their natural prison cells with the “Alpha” police bullying them.
Jumping straight into the film with no proper introduction of any kind was a bold move by David Ayer. Some might have liked it, but I personally hated it.
Ayer leaves the character Amanda Waller to introduce these character, a brief overview of their past, and how they were caught as she discusses her plan of creating a team with these unpredictable villains over a fancy dinner with some government officials.
It was a creative way of introducing the members, I will give Ayer some credit there, but it also seemed a bit sloppy and very rushed.
Each character has a unique story that could have been properly presented, however, for a two hour production I understand why they were kept short and simple. Nonetheless, the way Ayer wrote it was not very pleasing.
The flashbacks for these characters were either rushed or left out a lot of detail. They felt incomplete and, like I mentioned prior, rushed.
These flashbacks kept occurring throughout the film with no proper sequence to them. This is what I meant by sloppy.
Besides the presentation of the characters, the confrontation in the film was almost unclear and slow to present itself.
Enchantress discreetly created the confrontation in the film, but in all honestly, it almost seemed pointless since it was not the focus of the film.
It also gave Ayer the chance to kill off yet another not well known DC character. This presented a huge plot hole in the whole existence of Enchantress.
I find it hard to believe that a 6,613 year old healer and witch was easily killed by one meta-human instead of multiple and a bunch of humans with no actual superpowers to their name.
Overall, the whole film seemed very rush. It also seemed the film was more of an introduction of these villains more than trying to present a situation that happens in the DC Universe.
It also seems like the most favorable villains, like Harley and Deadshot, will get their own film to further explain their past in the future to come.
