Suicide Squad Movie Review (Small Spoilers)

 After months of waiting, Suicide Squad finally hit theaters Thursday (depending on where you live) and Friday night. From what I saw, in my opinion the critics were wrong about this one. Suicide Squad is definitely one of the better summer movies of this year!

Let’s start off with the obvious, Will Smith and Margot Robbie did great jobs as DeadShot and Harley Quinn. Both of them definitely stole the show in whatever scene they were in and both were hilarious as well. Jared Leto delivered as the Joker as well. You can tell that this Joker is and will be different from the Heath Ledger we’ve seen in The Dark Knight. My only gripe was that he didn’t play too much of major part in the main plot of the movie.

Other than a desire for other characters to be fleshed out a little more, everyone from Killer Croc to Rick Flagg were enjoyable to see on screen. Seeing the two cameos of Batman and The Flash were a great add on to this movie and a nice set up for the Justice League movie next year. It was nice to see Common in there as well even though he was killed by the Joker two minutes later

The plot to me seemed good for the most part. It’s very character driven as it gives a brief synopsis of everyone the first hour and they dive into their mission the second hour. Enchantress as the villain seemed like great choice.

As far as my gripes with the film, adding Slipknot to the film just to kill him off before the action even starts is somewhat of a waste. Also in the final scene when everyone is getting ready to take on Enchantress, she looks as if she’s doing a very poor form of belly dancing that just looked plain weird.

All in all I say Suicide a Squad was definitely a great movie and you should go out and see it. Never mind what the critics say, see and judge it for yourself. The action is great, the comedy is spot on, and the characters are enjoyable. Out of 10 I give it an 8. If you haven’t seen it go out and see it now!