Suicide Squad

Exactly what I expected. It's overwrought nonsense that tries to rely on characters, half of whom are in the film just because fans might want them there. One would prefer to remain silent about the fact that the team simply couldn't function without relying on scriptwriting crutches, so as not to completely tear it apart. What you can't tear apart is the great music. (07/08/2016)

On the surface it's actually quite likeable, but underneath all the wild hair shades, tattoos, and bizarre Harley Quinn costumes is a story that doesn't really click at all and whose "funny" moments are often not funny in the slightest. Nor can Ayer be particularly praised at the very least for the visuals because Suicide Squad is not even visually original and resembles again only a rather pretty digital coloring book. The entire concept is wrong from the start, because in a two-hour film you simply can't manage to introduce all the characters and still get them together for their "first group action" sequence. Or actually you can – but then it turns out exactly like this did. I feel pretty much the same way about this as I did about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, where the potential of each character was also woefully underutilized. Right from the start, the Warners are going through the entire comic book universe with shortcuts and simplicity in a bad way. I'm more disappointed than angry, because the potential of the individual characters is huge in my opinion, and I have no choice but to hope for some brighter tomorrows. But I still can't quite discern whether the problem of the DC universe is that the studio doesn't know how to tap into that potential or simply doesn't want to. (13/01/2019)