hey what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again
with a brand new movie review and this time we are talking about the new dc film by the name of
the suicide squad brought to us by the one the only james gunn got a chance to check it out in
theaters the other day and i'm really excited to share my thoughts with you all and let you know if
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me know if you were excited for this film was it most one of your most anticipated movies this year
and once you got an opportunity to see it in theaters on hbo max let me know let me know which
way you saw it for the first time what you think about the film let's talk your pros your cons who
were your favorite characters your least favorite characters did you have a good time do you want to
see a continuation of these characters whether it be spinoffs like we know a peacemaker or a sequel
to this film and let me know if you were maybe disappointed by this film and since we're talking
dc in particularly dceu what is your favorite film in the dceu universe give me your top
three and let's have a discussion about it in the comments below so listen man the suicide squad has
been a a film with a lot of hype a lot of buzz in the last few years but in particular in the
last week or so people got the opportunity to see it a week or two in advance and word around town
is it's the best comic book movie of all time it's easily the best dc eu film in the current
roster and uh listen i'm here to talk about it and give you all my thoughts on all that stuff
starting off with my positives i got to start with growing up in and you know loving film for all my
life but in particularly studying film with high school courses going to college fulfillment video
it's always been said that warner brothers is the studio that gives directors their vision
that lets them be creative and we know that's the case for most of the time but it seems like in the
last maybe decade or so or maybe in particular the last eight years once the zack snyder man
is steel universe and the snyder first came to be that narrative has kind of switched right
whether it be bvs whether it be suicide 2016 whether it be muffling with patty jenkins and
the first wonder woman and third act and so on and so forth and it seems like that narrative
has definitely changed and i'm so happy to say that i feel like warner brothers definitely let
james gunn let his vision out and the most glorious most gory most funny most disturbing
way possible and i'm glad to see this and i hope this is what we can expect with a matt reeves
of the batman with a david f samberg coming back for shazam too with a black adam and so on and so
forth they're going to let these creative talented individuals tell their stories and one thing that
is very unique about what james gunn's able to do is very similar to a todd phillips doing the joker
what we're going to get with matt reeves this is a singular kind of enclosed story
that doesn't really necessarily tie into the dc eu and i'll just say this when it comes to
elliot is this connected to the 2016 david david ayers version i'll just say this without diving
to spoilers i don't think you've had to seen that film to appreciate these characters and understand
their narrative here i would suggest that i would say to me this is what they refer to as a
standalone sequel meaning that there there may be one or two lines that references that 2016 version
but very similar to jumanji and the jumanji sequel where it pays homage and it like
pays somewhat attention to that narrative as well as like a mad max for your role so it's kind of in
that lane where you don't have to have seen those films to appreciate this film which is you know
something i think is really unique but going back to the man behind the camera james gunn's vision
his sensibilities his imprint is all throughout this film this felt like a graphic novel this felt
like i was watching a comic book truly come to life whether it be the title cards whether it be
the pacing whether it be the standalone moments with the quieter moments with our characters with
whether it be the blood the gut the action all that stuff is really highlighted through james
gunn's sensibilities and he really was let loose in this film and it makes me excited to see if he
does come back to do a dc universe film which i think he said that he wants to either do a sequel
to this or maybe tackle another dc property i am all for i'm a big fan of james gunn and i'll just
say this wrapping up the james gunn section of this review i have to say man his whole
i think he has to be in this world that we live in a cancellation he has to have one of the best
comebacks as far as like him being canceled with all the stuff that went down many many years ago
on twitter and losing guardians of the galaxy three at that time but then obviously working
it out with dc coming back to do guardians 3 it really worked out for him and i'm glad that i'm
not glad that that kind of happened but in the way i am because we would have never gotten this film
but james gunn directed the hell out of this film but i got to talk about these characters and i
have to talk about let me give you because there's so many characters i'm going to talk about my top
five characters and i'm going to start with harley quinn which i think margot robbie does her best
performance of harley quinn so far and hopefully we get more of harley quinn in the future but
just seeing her this is her third time playing the character three different directors three
interpretations but i think this is an amalgamation of what a david ayre brought
to the table what a kathy yen brought to the table and now james gunn kind of plays in his universe
i really enjoyed her narrative and the story and she's we get the wild chaoticness that we
get from david aaron's version we get the lessons learned the life lessons her knowing she doesn't
need the joker doesn't need a man to kind of control her life and then bringing that into
this film you see all that within this character and i had so much fun with harley quinn there's
a particular sequence in the film that i think is one of the best action sequences that we've seen
from harlequin kind of an akin to what we got in birds of prey her whole the prison moment but this
is just that times 10. so i really had a good time with her i really had some good laughs and
really enjoyed marco roberts performance in there so that's definitely my number one character from
this film number two man my man idris elba aka black superman but aka bloodsport he is i will say
he's very similar to deadshot i'm not gonna lie very similar plot and storyline all this stuff but
nonetheless separating him from the great actor as will smith is and he's his own great actor in his
own right idris l but as bloodshot was fantastic man i i really was rooting for the character you
i really want to know more about how he put mr superman in the icu with a kryptonite bullet but
that's a story for another day hopefully we'll see that but nonetheless i thought that he was
i i truly think he's the leader of this film it's an ensemble cast but i think that his narrative he
got the most meat as far as motivations character arc and where you see him at in the film i think
that he was definitely the most fleshed out character and he delivered on every front so i
really appreciate that character and hope that we maybe get to see either prequel sequels follow-ups
for that character because i was really intrigued and really fascinated by that character bloodsport
i thought it was fantastic so that's my number two number three is very surprising because i am
not the most recently i wasn't the fan of this actor in a fast and furious nine film that is
john cena but i am convinced that james gunn is the wrestler turned actor uh you know
man to get the job done and pulled out the great performance out of whether it be what we got with
dave bates says drax and now you can say that about john cena as peacemaker because he was
such an [ __ ] in his film in the best way possible i am i wasn't necessarily excited
for his character i wasn't necessarily excited about the announcement of him having his own tv
show but after watching this film and i won't say how his show is going to play into is it a
prequel is it a sequel i won't get into all that stuff but i'll just say this i'm excited to see
what they do with peacemaker because peacemaker in this film was like i said he was an [ __ ] but
he was also funny he was also very menacing he was also very very violent in the way that
he handled his business whether it is killing kids women men children you name it this man
wants peace at any cost necessary and his whole back and forth between him and sport was fantastic
and again john cena after f9 who i thought he was the worst character character wise acting wise i
was just like john cena wow you were terrible that film but it just goes to show you and this is no
disrespect to justin lin the director of that film but it just goes to show you when you have
the right director that can pull out the right role pull out the right sensibilities from
actor you get their you know one of their better performances and i thought john cena was fantastic
that's my number three favorite character number four comes down to rat catcher number two
that young lady who this is my first time being exposed to her i thought that she was the heart
in the soul of the team in regards to the humanity i really don't even think she was necessarily a
villain per se as we know that task force x is assembled by villains but i really enjoyed her
narrative i enjoyed her again her humanity her more emotional moments her more vulnerable moments
her more human moments and really kind of brought that to the forefront and also her very weird
power set that she can control rats and there's a particular character in this film that isn't a fan
of rats but i really enjoy catch uh a rat catcher two and i thought that that that the actors did a
fantastic job in the film and then number five viola ethan davis as a man amanda waller was
so good in this film man she is talking about [ __ ] oh my goodness amanda walder
might be more of a villain than the suicide squad task force x herself she was great in this film i
really want more viola davis in the dc universe i want more of her making these missions calling
these missions making these decisions that make her own team question her as a human she which is
great i don't want to get too much to a male and waller and her presence in this film but
let's just say by ella davis it was fantastic so those are my top five characters there were so
many other characters that that were great in their roles that i really appreciated that uh
may or may not have been in the film as much as i was expecting them to be but you know a rick flag
he did a good job boomerang you know all those different characters michael rutgers character
they all did good in their roles but those were my top five characters transition to some other
things i enjoyed about the film i mentioned james gunn's sensibilities but the action the gore the
blood the laughs the the narrative that was kind of told within the story as this kind of you know
forgotten about people in their world polka dot man is someone that comes to mind in regards to
learning more about batman by the way has some of the most the best rose gallery but also some of
the most weirdest villains polka dot man uh kite man condiment king and this is one of them polka
dot man is someone that comes to mind in regards to learning about what makes these characters
what got them to where they are in regards to being part of this group and being part of the
suicide squad and just learning more about them i found that to be fascinating just a narrative of
coming together dysfunctional family and all that stuff that you would expect from a james gunn film
really kind of hits home so those are really the the standout things for me jumping into some of
my criticisms as far as you know i gave you my top five characters but some of the characters
didn't really resonate with me i think of i know this might be blasphemy but i wasn't a fan of king
shark i thought that the the visuals were cool there were some funny moments him splitting people
eating people num num all that stuff was fun but i just personally i am like kind of hit or miss when
it comes to like straight up dumb characters like this is obviously the drax of the of the
group right he tells the jokes he really doesn't have much to offer in regards to intelligence so
i'm kind of you really got to sell me on the comedy to really like appreciate a very
dumb very like child-like type of sensibilities where again i just wasn't as as entertained by
king shark as a lot i don't know what a lot of you all will be so that was one character that
didn't really resonate with another character that comes to mind is particularly the quote-unquote
villains of the story who were the president in a general those characters mean very one note
very one-dimensional very kind of generic type of characters that i really didn't care for and then
in regards to other things that really didn't sit well with me in the film and then that should sit
well but this something that i was hoping would be a little bit more entertaining or a little bit
more compelling was the actual story this might be something you all disagree with me with but
this film is very similar to the 2016 version of suicide squad in regards to the narrative now
task force x i'm not the biggest suicide squad comic book fan just because i feel like their
narratives are pretty repetitive and this is pretty repetitive in regards to you look at the
narrative you get the group you meet who they are they have to take out this intergalactic
supernatural type of entity we're not supernatural in a sense of what we get in the first suicide
squad 2016 but you have this intergalactic star world character they gotta take them out they
gotta bond again it's very repetitive in the sense of same thing same narrative and you know kind
of the same result of how things end up so i will say the story wasn't all that as innovative as the
visuals as the characters the story was just very bland very generic very repetitive to the 2016
version and also very repetitive to a lot of the suicide squad stories and that's why i'm not like
the biggest suicide squad fan because a lot of their stories are like the same thing that they're
doing over and over and over again but like i said i just felt that the story was just very kind of
generic and very basic in the sense of that but outside of that guys before i give you my overall
thoughts and give me my score give me maybe my rankings and let you know if i think this is the
best comic book movie of all time if you haven't already make sure to like share comment leave your
thoughts in the comments let me know what you thought of the film of course subscribe to the
channel if you haven't already overall the suicide squad to me isn't the greatest comic book movie
of all time i don't even think it's the best dc eu film of all time but i cannot ignore the
sensibilities of james gunn being able to direct the film that he wants to tell being able to write
the characters that he wanted to illustrate on the screen being able to play in the sandbox he did
a fantastic job again i mentioned my favorite characters they were great the actions there
the jokes for the most part land the gore is there the building this family building a squad
is all entertaining and fun there were some characters i didn't really necessarily care
for i mentioned how i thought the story was very generic and very basic but at the end of the day
i was hella entertained i can't wait to see more of peacemaker i can't wait to see potentially
more of these characters i can't wait to see what james gunn does next in the dc universe
with all that being said i'm gonna give the suicide squad a solid four out of five and i
cannot recommend it enough if you all are able to to go see it in theaters with a group of
of people that love dc films see it on the biggest screen that you have in your area and i hope you
all have a good time because i certainly did it wasn't the best comic book movie all the time but
it was definitely a fun one as far as rankings i would say this is probably my third favorite dc
eu film behind you know a man of steel and behind something like wonder woman uh 2017-101 i still
think those films just as a film definitely kind of played more into my sensibilities as
those characters and also just kind of plays more to a more uh complex narrative than what we got in
this film but still top three and i don't know i'm gonna revisit i'm gonna watch it again and see if
i maybe like more of the story and maybe like more of the characters i didn't like first time seeing
it so that's my thoughts on the suicide squad four out of five recommend you all check it out
and when you do let me know your pros your cons your favorite character least favorite character
your rankings and if you think this is the best comic book movie of the year or of all time let's
discuss it all in the comments if you stuck around to end this video i appreciate every single one of
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