Suicide Squad

This summer we've seen a plethora of quintessential summer season flicks to grab that 18-34 single male demographic and not only woo them into the multiplex, but to keep them glued to their theater seats as well. Between super heroes and/or villains, good guys and bad guys, we've seen them all. So what makes us think that the fun won't last? Depending on the film, the fun could end or possibly not. It all depends on one's definition of fun. Well, after seeing "Suicide Squad", fun will certainly depend on one's perspective.

It feels good to be bad... Assemble a team of the world's most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains including Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Boomerang (Jai Courtney), Diablo (Jay Hernandez), Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), Slipshot (Adam Beach) and Katana (Karen Fukuhara), provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government's disposal, and send off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) and her military leader, Rick Flag (Joel Kinnamon), has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren't picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it's every man for himself. As this is going on, one of the squad's cohorts, The Joker (Jared Leto) is only causing their lives more grief for his own selfish means.

Others to round out the cast are Scott Eastwood as Lt. GQ Edwards, Cara Delevingue as June Moon/Enchantress, Common as Monster T and Ezra Miller as The Flash.

This was directed by the action, adventure king, David Ayers ("Harsh Times" '05, "Street Kings" '08, "End of Watch" '12, "Sabotage" '14, "Fury" '14). This guy knows how to bring out the right emotions that characterize the development of characters. I definitely see this in this film with such a different array of character development that as rich as the amazing makeup and costumes in which they wear. If you like Ayers form of direction, he has "Bright" in pre-production at this time. It was also written by Ayers ("U-571" 2000, "The Fast and the Furious" '01, "Training Day" '01, "Dark Blue" '02, "S.W.A.T." '03, "Harsh Times" '05, "End of Watch" '12, "Sabotage" '14, "Fury" '14). I'm perplexed with the writing with this since Ayers has a good deal of talented writing to his credit. I say perplexed because although the premise of the film is uproarious and unique, the execution of it simply meandered all over the screen with too many subplots ergo having too many characters to keep track of. These characters are the quintessential anti-heroes with all the eclectic issues depending on the character, but there were clearly places that were not necessary, and there were too many villains--I mean the worse villains the group were battling. As one would surmise, the visual effects predominantly created by MPC (Moving Picture Company) and SPI (Sony Pictures Imageworks) were seamless as was the special effects makeup by KNB FX Group.

Again, the idea and character development simply rocked in this, but it's too bad thata Ayers had a bad day at the laptop writing this. If he would have delineated his script and polished it a bit more, it would have been the film that it was meant to be. But hey, it was still worthy of a viewing on the large screen to take in all the rollicking fun and amazing effects.

Out of 4 Stars: 2.5                               Rated: PG-13                                 123mins.