Cast effort couldn't save "Suicide Squad" disaster
Director David Ayer destroys with ease, all the right potential elements that the marketing campaign promised.
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The main reason why "Suicide Squad" looks like a disaster of enormous proportions is not the relationship between expectation and reality, even if it is also part of the equation, but the ease with which the film destroys all its good potential elements. Over two hours, they crumble the factors that enabled believability in a kind of redemption for DC Entertainment after "Batman vs. Superman". What was perhaps the darkest hour - and that, as such, should give way to dawn - further darkness follows it.
The material, at least to start, is not bad. The premise makes room for very different possibilities: the border between villainy and heroism, the motivations behind each within a community.
The search for redemption and freedom, security in a universe populated by meta-humans and the implications of the establishment a secret task force are some of the issues with which the writer and director David Ayer flirt.
The idea ultimately is to show this group of mentally unstable characters and moral questionable accepting the work of superheroes for a day to try to spend less time in jail. And it is there, the point that production focus in the action scenes or in exaggerating its catastrophic moments.
The trailers promised a great action pack show; the soundtrack was captivating, and catchphrases indicated mood.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, in an attitude somewhat desperate, Warner sought Trailer Park, the company responsible for the second teaser, to help create a version more "solar" Long.
But soon the audience realize that the anarchic attitude of the film does not go beyond this first level. "Suicide Squad" rehearses a transgression that never fully confirms the screen where you see a lot more standard action movie than suggested by the pose and the speech of the trailers. It is worth noting; the problem goes beyond a mismatch between what was announced and what is now delivered.
The great cast of talented actors of our time can do little with the material at hand. The script always seems to sabotage the group of villains.
And the public does not create empathy for almost any character. What wins dramatic arc is the Gunslinger Will Smith that tries to save is skin in production but dies on the beach with uninspired dialogue.
Even when looking to repeat the kind of beats, especially concerning structure, the long shown indifferent. You can not see a clear proposal only outlines ways and indecision about which one to take. There is ground, for example, in the construction of the long initial act:
To present the characters and their origin stories, offering sightings of Heroes fans, injecting the first dose of adrenaline and set the tone for the mood and action.
The first thirty minutes of projection, however, are as tedious as one briefing meeting can be, weakening the account in progress on the villains with marks of the past. To make matters worse, what comes next seems out of a tonne universe and entirely different pace.
Confused and unable to produce cohesion, assembly makes the film seem like a collage of unrealized ideas, with the participation of the Joker (Jared Leto) generate only momentary chaos, and everything returns to normality.
What do you think? Is Hollywood out of ideas, are director nowadays short minded, Ghostbusters 2016 were also a meh movie.