[Movie] The Suicide Squad (2021)

To me it was fun. But why it was fun? Because of black humor overload :'D

My fascination also comes from the contrast.

To me it is all about the change of director and what difference it makes. Although we're talking about the same crew and same actors, but the effect to me is infinitely different. Basically, as I see it, the version of 2021 is not as serious, more to say - it's not serious at all. While first Suicide Squad felt like an attempt at being an anti-hero movie, I don't diminish the achievements of the first movie (or do I? xD), yet it felt too serious and in general it wasn't anything exciting (except for Harley).

The second movie (although I personally consider it as a reboot) doesn't take such a serious position and it actually follows the whole mission part as the first movie to the t and yet the result is so much different.

Comparison is bad but. Let's start from the introduction of "heroes". Both movies have it, but first one takes a lot of time and gives everyone a bit of time to more or less pour some light on their life and why they were imprisoned. Second movie also has it, but the intro is too short. We have few heroes from the first movie in the line btw. But then they arrive on the beach and there is ambush ahead and BAM we have almost everyone wiped out. Let's not forget that the jokes are shoved here and there, so most typical scenes that should be dramatic are viewed as a comedy almost.

As it turns this squad was only to divert attention from the main unit which takes it time to go through the jungle unimpeded. Let's give a round of applause to John Cena, the dude did a great job, like a really great job with walking around in a helmet that was called a toilet seat by others, he truly did a good job as his character. There is no deep introduction to them all and it's not dumped on you right away, we hear about the past of this or that person and what I liked is actually visualization of how some characters perceive the world. Especially Harley. I was truly fascinated when saw her fighting scene and how suddenly the background bloomed with flowers and the animated birds were flying around, to her the world is also a bit of like a video game. In general I was truly impressed by this scene and the representation of her psychology and inner world. It is way better than Harley in the first movie who simply said - voices in my head. I really preffered this interpretation of how she sees the world. She also has more scenes to showcase that Herley can kick ass, even if she's not normal as a person, but she can put up a fight. I remember how many people were questioning how Leto would look as Joker, but to me Harley always deserved more attention with all her tricks and fights. What I really didn't like in the first movie is how she was made into this doll, she looked great, but the old-fashioned sexualization of her body was really outdated. While here she doesn't look less pretty, but manages to kick ass beautifully.

The mission and the twist behind it don't really differ from the first movie, if I'm being honest. Like in the first movie they had no idea who they save before they see a person who controlled them all the time. Here they also reach their mission goal to find out that - oh, we're wiping the ass of you know who at the top again. The whole difference is that first movie takes what villains do as some sort of catastrophe, surrounding area is totally empty with aftermath scenery, anyway everything is very "serious". Here we have absolutely comical alien species of unknown origin that was experiemnted on, it looks too animated to be taken seriously, but the damage is real and it poses a real threat. Many things happen on the way to "save the world", but sometimes it has again that black humor tone to it (for example when one of them is smashed by a tentacle, or the starfish falls thanks to the army of rats), yet I find that with the ratio of those who survived and those who fell as the result more realistic. Even though it has that american-type final scene where everything is over, everyone is tired, but people give each other a satisfied smile :'D God I dislike those, but the Hollywood likes it, so I have to cope. At least here it's not so cringe.

To me James Gunn made it work.