A cynical and bloody exercise in reputation management, willing to cut corners in service of its goals and uncaring about its casualties or moral compromises is, somewhat amusingly, the driving element of the plot of The Suicide Squad. It is almost certainly not indicative that there are threats to children, an employee revolt, not one but two Pyrrhic Platoons, nor that in borrowing graphic furniture from 70s Grindhouse and graphic violence from 2007's Grindhouse this feels not only familiar, but possibly tired.
Margot Robbie returns, and while her Harley Quinn gets a John Wick-style corridor bloodbath that resembles a herbally-infused version of Equilibrium she's mostly underserved. She's in part comic relief in a comic book movie, and when Polka-Dot Man isn't the punchline it's hard to spot a good reason why. There is a sequence that made me wonder if we'd get an Evita inspired dream sequence, but no.
Margot Robbie returns, and while her Harley Quinn gets a John Wick-style corridor bloodbath that resembles a herbally-infused version of Equilibrium she's mostly underserved. She's in part comic relief in a comic book movie, and when Polka-Dot Man isn't the punchline it's hard to spot a good reason why. There is a sequence that made me wonder if we'd get an Evita inspired dream sequence, but no.
- 8/2/2021
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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