This is the sinister unseen side to American glory a monstrous extraterrestrial starfish picked up on a seemingly triumphant space mission.
Just what each squad member feels about their home country and its role in international backwaters is prominently in play in “The Suicide Squad.” The gang is sent to a dictator-controlled South American island in the midst of a populist uprising to keep safe a secret, locked-away alien species housed in a concrete tower. There is also John Cena’s Peacemaker, easily the most jingoist of the bunch, a kind of Captain America knockoff. The skills of Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian) are initially hard to decipher, but the shy, stunted Abner proves surprisingly capable, even if he, himself, sheepishly apologizes for having such a “flamboyant” power. With him are Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior, a standout), a laconic, warm-hearted Millennial with a very polite pet rat named Sebastian on her shoulder.
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But in a clown-car of a superhero movie the most central protagonist is Idris Elba’s Bloodsport, a mercenary only coaxed into joining the team when Waller threatens prison time or worse for his teenage daughter (Storm Reid, very good). Exactly who are to be our main characters and who’s head is about to sliced like a melon takes some sorting out. Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) summons a bunch of prisoners for Task Force X program. Like Gunn’s previous movies, “The Suicide Squad” boasts wall-to-wall needle drops (the Pixies’ “Hey,” Louis Armstrong’s “I Ain’t Got Nobody”), yet leaves out maybe the most fitting song, Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.”Įarly on in “The Suicide Squad” we get a sense that the mission is dubious. In Gunn’s hands, the America superhero is grotesque, brutal and ridiculous. “The Suicide Squad” is the anti-Superman, a madcap rejoinder to Captain America. Gunn has said he was initially offered the chance to direct a Superman movie, but it’s telling that he turned down the crown jewel of DC for the likes of Polka-Dot Man, Ratcatcher 2 (who communicates with rodents) and Nanaue, a cartoonish walking shark in jams.īut if most mainline superhero movies ultimately exalt American ideals like justice, individualism and might, Gunn goes exactly the other way. poached the writer-director, one of the few filmmakers in the genre with the nerve and talent to not exactly buck the system but deconstruct it, and turn superhero myth into slapstick farce. Disney fired him from Marvel for some old, dug-up tweets, only to, after the protests of his “Guardians” cast, be rehired to direct “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 5 in theaters and on HBO Max) in a brief window opened by social-media scandal. Gunn came to “The Suicide Squad” (which opens Aug.
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