Suicide Squad

On the surface it's actually quite likeable, but underneath all the wild hair shades, tattoos, and bizarre Harley Quinn costumes is a story that doesn't really click at all and whose "funny" moments are often not funny in the slightest. Nor can Ayer be particularly praised at the very least for the visuals because Suicide Squad is not even visually original and resembles again only a rather pretty digital coloring book. The entire concept is wrong from the start, because in a two-hour film you simply can't manage to introduce all the characters and still get them together for their "first group action" sequence. Or actually you can – but then it turns out exactly like this did. I feel pretty much the same way about this as I did about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, where the potential of each character was also woefully underutilized. Right from the start, the Warners are going through the entire comic book universe with shortcuts and simplicity in a bad way. I'm more disappointed than angry, because the potential of the individual characters is huge in my opinion, and I have no choice but to hope for some brighter tomorrows. But I still can't quite discern whether the problem of the DC universe is that the studio doesn't know how to tap into that potential or simply doesn't want to. (13.01.2019)

You really don't have to be a film expert to see how Warner turned some excellent material into complete nonsense. Leaps of logic, shortcuts and a total hodgepodge of characters who are not as distinctive as their comic-book originals. Strangely enough, all the comic book studios seem to have a problem creating an actual villain, so we all wait in vain for someone who would at least come close to Ledger’s Joker. Speaking of Joker – Leto, a big no. His Joker fails to instill a sense of fear or respect, there’s no charisma, nothing. He is just an idiot whose scenes belong to the most boring ones in the movie. The soundtrack is brilliant, but it's not really that hard to stuff it with rock hits to make it cool. It turns out that, like in Batman v Superman in the spring, the absence of previous solo movies is crucial. But Warner will never learn, so just as Schumacher almost buried Batman and we had to wait 8 years for Nolan to revive him, it's quite possible that Snyder’s crew will kill a whole decade of DC movies – a real shame, the guys have good comic book material, if only they had some sort of an idea what the audience wants from them. (18.11.2016)