Suicide Squad
Much like the rest of this month’s DVD's (with the exception of Planet Earth 2), Suicide Squad is utter garbage. Unlike the others it's relentlessly funny from beginning to end, which is odd because they're supposed to be comedies and this isn't.
The nonsensical plot sees a government agency assemble a team of baddies to protect the world on the off chance that a goodie shows up and turns out to actually be a baddie. Unsurprisingly a baddie does show up, so the goodies/baddies have to work together to save the day. Gibberish, I know.
The cast do their absolute best with the terrible script, and it's their enthusiasm that keeps it from tipping over into just being a bad film with Will Smith and Margot Robbie giving the most spirited performances as Deadshot and Harley Quinn respectively.
It's the behind the scenes stuff that has destroyed this movie though, from a soundtrack with all the subtlety of a bullet to the head, to an editing job that makes you wonder if the folks that made this have ever seen a film let alone work on one before. The whole thing reeks of studio interference. With the enjoyable Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (where creative control was handed solely to David Yates and J K Rowling) currently performing well with viewers and critics alike, you'd hope that Warner Bros have learned that films made by committee often fail. I guess we'll find out when Justice League arrives next year.
In the meantime we have Suicide Squad to cackle our way through. Sadly that's not what the makers had in mind.
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