Gadgetory

I want to build a team with some very bad people who I think can do some good y'all jokers must be crazy Suicide Squad a group of DC super villains brought together by a shady government agency to go on Do or Die emissions to earn time off triple life sentences something ridiculous like that I went in expecting a full kind of Avengers style spectacle ensemble cast every character is delightful in their own special way and I came out pretty darn disappointed it didn't have a lot working in its favor to put together a really well paced film like there was a lot of background to cover on bringing everyone together there were so many characters on the team you've got a bit lost trying to use them all it tried really hard to hit those notes and there were a lot of moments where it came close to doing that but it just felt kind of messy in the end absolutely and one of the other things that really stuck with me on that was the use of music I mean I felt like it was a teenager butt dialing Spotify its greatest hits it was just jumping into you remember Bohemian Rhapsody I love that song you remember Dusty Springfield and Eminem and the white stripes you like all of those artists don't you well that was a very similar thing that they did with the marketing campaign it's like the most recent half a dozen trailers were all set to those really popular songs what was that I should kill everyone and escape sorry the voices I'm kidding that's not what they really said if you can only rely on using the music that people love and kind of riding on the shoulders of champions without actually relying on the fact that your story is awesome you're only playing off the association's that people have with the music what do you think of Holly oh mercy okay so I'm told by all of my fan friends that she's got this awesome backstory she's this really troubled woman former psychiatrist I mean oh that's true that is very true stuff I got a fun lady in hot pants who at one point fashions open a shop window because she just really wants the handbag inside seriously the hell's wrong with you people for bad guys it's what we do I think I did an audible sigh at that point but I just felt like that for this really amazing character who could have been really dark and light you know funny and serious I just got a sort of trumped-up single dimensional sexy girl and a relationship with the Joker he was in the movie I didn't feel like you needed to be there no he was kind of in there just for the sake of it which was weird after so much controversy in Jared Leto's betrayal I thought he was really good at what he did I thought he was great in the film I thought he gave a really strong performance considering out to follow on from Hitler yes very much so but it didn't feel like he had to be there and it was just kind of a character being pulled out from the woodwork to make us go oh we love the Joker just like we love all this music I had really high hopes for an ensemble film that could be really fun but instead we got quite a disjointed picture that felt like it probably could have been replaced by a bunch of trailers being stuck together in the end it was just too confused and rushed and I've got to give it to exploding heads out of 5 yeah look for me I think it's too ironic haha tattoos out of 5 Suicide Squad is in cinemas if you do want to see it though and if you want to check out our full review you can do that on cnet com