Even though Deadpool hadits own problems as a self-aware action movie, it still had focus and abravado that is nowhere to be found in Suicide Squad.Suicide Squad follows a group of villains with super powers releasedfrom prison as part of a government plan to protect the world fromterrorists or whatever sign-of-the-times fear currently plaguingsociety (Zika?). Suicide Squad, a PG-13 film, was supposed to beDC's entry to rival Marvel's R-rated Deadpool. It doesn't help that the movie isalso an example of how bad one of these films can be when it becomeswatered down and designed to refrain from shaking up anything in theso-called DC Universe. What Christopher Nolan oncemade his own has devolved into a predictable pastiche whose charmsshould be wearing thin on audiences. Movie goers shouldn't mindlessly consume these films.Christopher Nolan set a high bar, but producers and studios need tostep messing with auteurs and maybe we can get a quality DC movie:There is nothing in Suicide Squad that shows any hope that an auteurfilmmaker can do anything distinctive with the current cash cow of theHollywood machine: the super hero movie. I didn't even have to go into spoilers to show howterrible it is. But I have to share my take on this movie because it justwasn't good. This is a cut and dry poorly made movieand fans of the DC universe deserve better.
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