Film Review: Suicide Squad 2

 Genre: Action / Adventure / comedy

Cert: 15 cert

Director:  James Gunn

Screenwriter: James Gunn

Starring: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Michael Rooker, Viola Davis, John Ostrander, Nathan Fillion, Jai Courtney, Flula Borg, Mayling Ng, Pete Davidson, Sean Gunn, Stephen Blackehart, Steve Agee, Tinashe Kajese, Jennifer Holland, Fernando Martinez many more.......

Running time: 2h 12min

Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scenes may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Mild crude and sexual references here and there to oral sex and orgies. Nothing too strong as it's comedic.

Brief female and male nudity.

Violence & Gore: Extremely graphic comical sequences of stylized fantasy violence with plenty of glorious blood sprays. People's mouths are ripped open and people are ripped in half with closeups of bones and organs. The aftermaths are incredibly brutal.

At times, the violence is completely comedic due to its tone although it can be surprisingly bloody.

Once Harley kills people, they turn into flowers.

Profanity: there are a few F-bombs 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Characters snort cocaine, take ecstasy, shoot heroin during one nightclub sequence. Other scenes feature unrestricted use of alcohol.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The fantasy and supernatural creatures may heavily frighten viewers whilst incredibly stylized.

Surprisingly, the majority of the film is upsetting, dark, and heartfelt.

Story: Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

Likes: Right let me state I am a DC fan but I'm gonna keep it real here and take myself out of the fandom of DC to give an honest review, I 'l be honest this feels like Guardian of the galaxy 2 all over again I will explain later in this review.

As far an action this film does amp that up with Its outrageously violent and graphic tone with gritty, emotional well-paced, visually stunning movie, the way it does try to be better than the first film, which yes when it comes to the main villain it does better.

But Sadly the critic and fan in me are very disappointed in the way this film has been handled, which I've noticed seems to be a trait with James Gunn because he does this very same thing with Guardian of the galaxy 2. I mean I tried to like it but the film felt messy.

Dislikes: While I think it great that James Gunn introduced new characters, but 10 mins into the film, I almost felt like walking out of the film, from the get-go with the first team being a complete throw-away character, which yes I get it not call the suicide squad for nothing, it just felt like James Gunn didn't know how to start this film just put a random bunch of pointless character in that didn't need to be in the film.

Not to mention one of my biggest pet peeves this film telling us what going on like were too stupid to understand what was going on, it came across as very insulting. Don't get me started on the editing for this film the pace of the film is ruin by this terrible editing of scenes not fitting together like a lot of the film has been cut on a massive scale. I've seen this with the Superman v Batman cinema release that makes scene by scene look terrible which made the film Horrible to watch on screen. 

While I not gonna blame James Gunn for this, because it feels like massive Studio interference once again, sabotaging their own films. But the film I said about this feels like Guardian of galaxy 2 all over again, it's just the fact the story gets the villain right while sabotaging the story which sadly in my opinion made the film feel like an incoherent mess. It came across like the story was all over the place with jokes that just weren't funny.

Overall:  Guardian 2 all over again great Villian poor story, Good action, some good performances but a big let down. 

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.8 out of 10 for a sequel