‘Suicide Squad’ is a hyper-violent feast of aliens, fascists, and lunatic heroes
Film review
“The Suicide Squad”
Rated R. At AMC Boston Common, Regal Fenway, AMC South Bay and suburban theatres.
Grade: B+
In 2016, Warner Bros. released “Suicide Squad.” “The Suicide Squad” will be released this week. Confused?
What sets James Gunn’s tense new film different from David Ayer’s 2016 effort? It’s also not just a three-letter word.
Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” is comparable to one of Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” films in that it features individuals recruited from Arkham Asylum.
This new “The Suicide Squad,” which is a homophonous remake to help you forget about the previous
“Suicide Squad” films, starts in Louisiana’s Belle Reve Prison, where sly mission director Amanda Waller (Viola Davis)
gathers a team of lunatic fighters, this time to invade a small South American island nation (or blow their heads off remotely) and destroy a Nazi-era facility.
According to rumours, the needle-headed scientist Thinker (Peter Capaldi) has a gigantic starfish-shaped extraterrestrial called Starro within Jotunheim with a huge eyeball in the centre of its quinquepartite body that Thinker is tormenting the fascist island’s political captives.
The irony is that I don’t find this storey particularly funny (in a darkly hilarious sense).
Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), the film’s crazy heroine and the Joker’s ex-girlfriend, is sent to Task Force X, a team that lands on the beaches and engages the island’s troops in a blazing fight.
A humanoid Weasel is one of the team members (Sean Gunn).
Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), Rick Flagg (Joel Kinnaman), T.D.K. (Nathan Fillion), and Blackguard (Nathan Fillion) are also in the team (Pete Davidson).
Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Nanaue (Sylvester Stallone), Peacemaker (John Cena, much better here than in “F9”), and Ratcatcher 2 (a fantastic Daniela Melchior), a young lady who can call rats and wears one on her shoulder, make up the second team.
Did I mention Bloodsport’s aversion to rodents, or Polka-Dot Man (The Flash), who only sees his violent mother when he looks at other living things?
The absurd chrome mask Peacemaker wears is one of the film’s funniest moments.
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Gunn, whose show was on the brink of cancellation,
is renowned for his creative action sequences that are both gory and funny, and he does not disappoint here.
The graphics are excellent eye candy for a genre film.
Gunn’s film has a real Kaiju climax as well as a funny cameo from “Game of Thrones” actor Michael Rooker.
Robbie looks stunning in a blood-red bridal gown and brings to the film considerable comedic and athletic skills.
You’ve come to the correct spot if you want to see bodies beheaded, blown apart, burnt, impaled, crushed, melted by acid, and ripped in two by alien tentacles.
Similar to the “face-huggers” from the “Alien” films, Starro creates miniature replicas of himself that attach themselves to people and turn them into slaves for him.
The storyline of “The Suicide Squad” is identical to that of the 2018 J.J. Abrams-directed Nazi-zombie epic “Overlord.”
Here’s your opportunity to listen to Jim Carroll’s incantatory “People Who Died,” which Patti Smith used to cover. It’s the primary theme for the movie.
Extreme violence, profanity, sexual allusions, sexually graphic scenes, and short nudity are all present in “The Suicide Squad.”
‘Suicide Squad’ a hyper-violent feast of aliens, fascists and lunatic heroes
