I Watch Films: The Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad

So unlike the previous Suicide Squad film (Suicide Squad (2016)) The Suicide Squad knows exactly what it is and what it wants to do. Rick Flagg from the previous film gets a bunch of weirdo supervillains out of prison to go to Corto Maltese, a generic South American Island Nation. There has been a coup and they want to neutralise the science experiment inside the Jottunheim tower, built by exiled Nazis after WW2. So far so predictable.

They are ambushed and are mostly killed. However that team is the decoy. The real team is under supervillain Bloodsport, landing a distance up the coast. We start of with a dark, bloody, death-filled action sequence with some jokes of varying quality, and that’s mostly how we go on.

Several characters have a touch of growth, but none of it adds up, and the misfits get together to save the world, or the island, or something, because that’s what they do. And then at the end there’s a final compromise*. Setting us back to zero again.

Watch This: Brutal, funny stuff with some deep dives into the DC villain roster
Don’t Watch This: You want the violence or jokes to say anything more
This Is The Last Film I Watched in 2021: And this brings to an end my 2021 reviewing

* SPOILERS: They threaten to reveal that the US has been undertaking involuntary human experimentation in Corto Maltese, and I'm just going to note that equally heinous crimes get revealed every few years in the US and hardly anyone goes to jail for it and the secret intelligence community keeps rolling on. I don't know for sure what the situation is in the DCEU but it seems to me that the events of Suicide Squad and possibly Aquaman will have had some political fall out.