It could have done better with character introductions. First off it introduces Savant by showing him killing a bird, and that’s fine, but then it ships him off tot the mission before we get to learn anything else about ihim. Also there is no training mission with the tieam before they are snet off on a mission. It would have been useful to have one to see if any of the members has a few of another person’s pwoers. Or to see if everyone can swim. Whoops.

The mission is shady and disagreeable enough that it makes sense why the Government is sending a bunch of criminals to Corto Maltese instead of Superman or Batman. Getting involved with America’s dirty baggage might be out of character for them.

The music selection was effective in parts. The most effective bit of black comedy in the movie is the opening credits, where “People Who Died” by the Jim Carroll Band plays. It was oddly hilarious.

The team selection was a weird choice. Harley Quinn, King Shark, Captain Boomerang, Polka Dot Man, Ratcatcher II, Bloodsport, Savant, Peacemaker, Weasel, Blackguard, Javelin, Mongal, and TDK. Polka Dot Man and TDK are joke characters who exist so other characters can make fun of their powers. Besides the characters who appeared in the first movie, Bloodsport and Peacemaker (and secondarily King Shark) feel like a pretty good personality fit for the movie, and all the memorable lines are split between Bloodsport and Peacemaker. I would have overhauled King Shark – or at least all of his dialogue, they have very little impact on the plot.

The villains for this movie feels like a match for the protagonists who mostly shoot people. Because they are shootable, they create more interesting interactions and better fight scenes than say, Superman. (The team’s only superhumans are King Shark, Polka Dot Man, Weasel, Mongal, and TDK.)

People raise plausible concerns about Waller’s plans in a fair way. In contet it s almost believable that serious people would agree to this carzier=than=crazy plan. However Waller needs to trust Rick Flag more, not telling him about another time going in with them or of someone with a different mission than him is just frustrating. In well-executed noir movies Out of the Past, characterscreate their own problems without compromising their own competence.

The Suicide Squad is more realistic than I thought it would be. For example, an inalien I thought would be invunrable dies in a helicopter crash. A lot of these characters die, and none of them are integral to the success of the DC Universe besides Harley Quinn.

Even though they are shootable and provide interesting interactions and fight scenes, the villains feel like a rehash of the Germans from Wonder Woman. An enemy who provides an interesting element to the movie, but are lacking in terms of characterization. The general in particular is not interesting and could have been more relevant.

Most of them do not have a tragic backstory. But at the same time, there is not one character who is unapolegetic in terms of his villainy, i.e. “I did it for me. I was good at it.:”

The setting is a generic Spanish country with a dictatorship. I guess it works for the movie because having it take place in a real Spanish country might have offended people.

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