maandag 28 november 2022

The Suicide Squad

 The second movie of the series with DC villains taking on government missions to get time of their sentences.



And I must say, I did like the first one, thinking it the turn around point where DCEU movies got "brighter" and lighter of tone.

In this movie, Task Force X needs to infiltrate the nation of Corto Maltese and bring down Project Starfish.  This is a secret project overseen by The Thinker, and located in the armed tower of Jotunheim.  But upon arrival on the beach, almost the whole team is killed except Rick Flag and Harley Quinn (sadly yes, also Captain Boomerang).  

But this team, who was made up of, let's be kind, D-level villains for the rest, was a diversion in order to have a second team consisting of Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Polka-Dot Man, King Shark and Ratcatcher II can safely infiltrate the island.  While Flag finds refuge with the resistance fighters (who lose a lot of their numbers to Bloodsport and Peacemaker, thinking it are enemies holding him captured), Harley is brought before the president... and kills him.



As she makes her escape, the two teams, having linked up with The Thinker, head towards Jotunheim.  They fight their way inside the tower, but find out the grizzly truth of the project, which is in all actuality sponsored by the US government and needs to be shut down.  This leads to a confrontation between Peacemaker, who killed Flag, and Bloodsport to get the hands on a hard drive containing all the data.  The actual project, a huge Starfish alien, breaks out and rampages through the city, leading to the remaining members of Task Force X to engage it and overcome the beast.



Buying their freedom by blackmailing Waller with the drive, the remaining members of the Task Force X are extrapolated, but in the end credit sequence it turns out Peacemaker also survived the incident.

Once more gorgeously over the top, this was a fun movie to watch, and with a high mortality rate this time amongst it's members, something not to be expected of a "superheroes" movie at all.


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