Hollywood insiderspredictthis weekend’sSuicide Squad , the first all - villain funny - book movie , could make over $ 130 million in its first three days of release . The gobsmacking bounty suggests that superhero cinema still satiates audiences of every age , but is it for you ? Is the Batman - adjacent blockbuster a POW - BANG - SMASH reach or is it the movie eq ofJared Leto hiding a dead pig in your sleeping accommodation ? Here ’s what you need to ask yourself :
WasBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justiceyour everything?
You already have opening weekendSuicide Squadtickets , and there ’s a strong chance you already have second - weekendSuicide Squadtickets . If you do n’t unthaw the first time Harley Quinn says " Mistah J , " you ’ll fuck it both clock time .
Or didBatman v Supermanknock you back into a depressive state of hopelessness and despair?
This March ’s superhero showdown was danker than Batman after a CrossFit session , but hopefuls – me . You ? Us . – sawSuicide Squadas cheeky course correction . Between Will Smith ’s quip , Margot Robbie ’s gleeful psychopathy , and rock - radio hits , the squad - up picture would beBatman v Superman ’s off - kelter second cousin who always shows up to family functions with a keg and a stack of firework . screwball playfulness , emphasis on gaga .
Does a wrathful deity freed from an ancient vase conjuring/rave-dancing a doomsday device into the middle of a major metropolitan area sound like a promising adversary?
It better . The canonic solidification - up : assembled in the wake of Superman ’s death , the Suicide Squad travel on the offense when a God - like entity threaten to … well , I ’m not 100 % certain – fellate the sprightliness force out out of every person on the major planet using superpowered USB cords ? Open a rift between the mortal and pop - locking intent world ( yes , this witch can dance ! ) ? The conflict is unclear , but hey , there are orb monsters and fervidness beasts and a lot of other level bosses to clear , ensuring thatSuicide Squadwill , at the very least , make your brain .
Do you like war movies?
Suicide Squadfills the man - on - a - mission warfare - moving-picture show mold with imitation – thinkThe Dirty Dozen - meet - aggro cosplayers . This works for the actors . Not so much Ayer , who shoots the movie ’s minimal action chronological sequence like they ’re strict round of optical maser ticket . An extended scrimmage up a skyscraper is all promise , 10,000 rounds , and zero thrills ( blameThe Raidfor setting the saloon too high-pitched ) . An encounter in a decimated city street devolves into another bullet train - cases - dropping - in - slo - mo shootout – a wasteland , when just an minute before , Harley Quinn unpacked an oversized hammer . self-destruction Squadleaves the possibilities of such psychotic carnage to the imagination .
Was Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn your reason to see this movie?
Suicide Squad ’s deliver timber is the cast , and Robbie does Justice Department to one of the most popular funny icon of the last 20 geezerhood . The moving-picture show could apply more of her , frankly . Choppy action never gives Harley her swelled , wet , kiss - of - dying import , even as Robbie beguile her naturalness , sexual mania , and killer instincts . We see Harley " perish " for the Joker without real import . She pines to head for the hills captivity , yet it takes zero convincing for her to bank allegiance to the team . The mere show of Harley may do it for some , but so would the composition board Harley Quinn cutout from Party City .
Does Jared Leto’s new take on The Joker intrigue you?
Leto ’s gangster clown is front and center in most of theSuicide Squadmarketing . Not so much in the actual movie . The Joker only appears in a smattering of digressive picture that taunt out Harley ’s origin and give Leto a chance to showboat . If you cut them from the moving-picture show , the only thing we ’d lose is his face on the bill sticker . And for all the method mayhem , Leto ’s variation match right alongside Jim Carrey ’s Riddler and Arnold Schwarzenegger ’s Mr. Freeze from Batman ’s ' 90s goofball era .
Are you the dedicated Will Smith stan who can find the good in any of the actor’s movies (hey, someone had to likeAfter Earth!)?
felo-de-se Squadrevives one - liner Will Smith and we ’re all better for it . David Ayer ’s movie has the comedic timing ofThe Office ’s Michael Scott , but Smith seizes mastery with well - timed pizzaz and hero stances . When the movie starts feeling like someone playingTime Crisisin the theater pressure group , Smith steps in and , as he once said , " makes this face good . " Please deliver this humans with a spinoff , stat .
Will you tolerateSuicide SquadifHow to Get Away with Murder’s Viola Davis is great?
Then maybe bribe into this picture – Davis merit a spot in Smith’sSuicide Squadspinoff . More ruthless than any of the supposed baddies littering the Squad batting order , Davis ' honcho - char Amanda Waller makes the numberless introductions and re - creation adequate . If you ’re go to ill-use the word " meta - humans , " filtering it through Davis ' gravitas is the way to do it .
Can a soundtrack save a movie?
This is a rough guess , but there are 8,000 medicine cues inSuicide Squad , ranging from ' LXXX strong-armer to mid - century R&B to Eminem , and employed to trigger memories of good movies . The soundtrack preserve the toothed mental synthesis - newspaper collage of a movie together , but glue incessantly transude up between the edge . Tolerance may alter , though there ’s one truly egregious discriminative stimulus : Norman Greenbaum ’s " Spirit in the Sky , " use to corking affect inGuardians of the Galaxy , and used again asSuicide Squad ’s battle anthem . DC , if this was your theme of a Marvel diss rail , it did n’t process .
Do you want to watchHouse of Cards' Joel Kinnaman eat a chicken wing while staring wistfully into the rain?
SeeSuicide Squadimmediately . Kinnaman does a number on that chicken flank .
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