Suicide Squad is a 2016 American superhero film as a secret government organization recruits some of the most dangerous super-villains to form a defensive task force.
Since I'm no avid superhero fan, I hate to choose sides. However, it is clear that what Marvel does consistently is the very thing that DC Comics continues to struggle with.
Writer-director David Ayer doesn't have the right graphic technique for a comic-book-style jamboree -- he's strictly a noirish-pulp guy -- and the characters, all of whom are promisingly introduced, fizzle fast.
The imagery is just as dark as the premise-the city is a ruined war zone enveloped in night-but otherwise it's another CGI spectacle of big battle set-pieces, epic destruction, and high body count, with the least imaginative jukebox score ever...
This is what happens when the comic book fanboys have taken over the asylum. It is damaged goods from the get-go, the kind of film grown in a petri dish in Hollywood.