I loved DC comics as a kid, and was thrilled when they made a movie out of Superman. Making a long story short, Christopher Reeve was a good Superman and a great Clark Kent, but the plots always sucked. Ditto for Batman. I've been waiting for years for DC to make a good movie. Suicide Squad is the most original to date.
Suicide Squad is about bad guys who are coerced into forming a team to fight an evil metahuman (please, not mutant, okay?) with astonishing evil powers. I won't tell you who the nemesis is, because that might be a bit of a plot spoiler. Let's just say that everyone in the movie is bad (even Batman who makes a cameo appearance), but some are really bad, and others are really really bad.
Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is sensational. Very very demented, yet sexy, funny, scary and romantic all in the same package. She kind of reminds of girls I went to school with at Berea High, who were very beautiful, smart and talented, but they just wanted to be naughty. Well, Harley wants to be beyond naughty, and utterly capable of killing in order to amuse herself. Also great is Deadshot (Will Smith) an evil assassin who hates Batman. I also hate the movie Batman, so it is easy for me to sympathize. Deadshot is witty and clever, and gravitates to (almost) being a leader of the criminal team. There are another half dozen members on the team with special talents combined with appalling criminal records.
Margot Robbie is an evil genius with incredible combat skills, sexappeal and comic timing. I understand most guys who have a date with her wind up dead or in the Hospital, but if I'm offered a dinner invitation I will accept.
Will Smith and Margot Robbie are the most memorable characters, and the Suicide Squad is the best movie team DC Comics has ever produced.
The plot is a bit disjointed and I didn't follow all of the twists and turns. For example at one point everyone ends up at a secret Government headquarters, and I had no idea how they got there or why. I'll have to see the movie again to figure it out.
Despite such flaws, the movie is great because it breaks old stale DC formulas that, frankly, have begun to stink. It's fresh exciting, different and suspenseful because we don't know what is going to happen next.
This is not a good movie to take your young boyscout or girlscout to see, but High School kids and above will love it. If you like superhero movies, and you want to see something different, this is one of the best movies.
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