DC movies are somehow well-known for bad reviews, especially because most people always compare them to Marvel movies. For real fans of DC, however, they probably will beg to differ. DC is unlike Marvel that presents high-spirited combat with fascinating problems and funky life stories. Instead, it chooses to package its characters with dark and philosophically twisted backgrounds.
The bad reviews aren’t exception even for the latest movie, Suicide Squad. Many say that the story is too simplistic and underdeveloped, only focused on Deadshot, sexualizing Harley Quinn, and more like a zombie-apocalypse movie. I get why those points reason the bad reviews, but I believe Suicide Squad is about the anti-heroes and anti-heroines defeating evil, so probably we can try to evaluate some good in the bad.
First of all, Suicide Squad is highly unique because this is not about heroes or heroines trying to save the world. This is about the bad guys who don’t care about our society but save us from the doom anyway. In the beginning of the movie, their main reason is because they are threatened by government’s plot, but later in the movie they decide to save the world because they want to survive for their loved one (Deadshot’s reason) and because they don’t have anything better to do (according to Harley Quinn).
Deadshot’s reason may give us a different perspective in viewing good vs. evil. If we have to compare to most of heroic stories, the villains tend to desire the world under their rule or simply hate everything and everybody in this world that they want to destroy them. However, in Suicide Squad we see that Deadshot truly loves his daughter and wants the best for her that he cannot even shoot as his daughter asks him not to. This sense of affection can also be found in Harley Quinn’s love story with Joker. Love is supposed to be good, isn’t it?
Harley Quinn is the second variable in my review why Suicide Squad is actually good, and personally she is my favorite in this movie. I’m trying my best not to be biased by her beauty and cuteness, but indeed the way how Harley Quinn fearlessly and eloquently fights the Enchantress’ minions is very exquisite. Her cheerful character brings an ironic light of shadow to the team.
Most of all, her bittersweet romance with Joker is the highlight of her persona. Let’s be honest, the depiction of Joker in The Dark Knight has made us fall in love with him more than with the protagonist. Joker’s philosophical and mysterious side must have hypnotized Harleen Quinzel similarly. Harley Quinn’s surrender to Joker’s temptation and the way how Joker kisses her passionately after saving her from a tank of chemical waste make them the most favorite couple of the year. Just admit it, we all want to craze out all the way with our lover, don’t we?
Lastly, Suicide Squad presents us a non-superpowered and non-high-technological battle. Of course El-Diablo is a meta-human in Suicide Squad with his pyrokinesis and Captain Boomerang is equipped with futuristic boomerang, but most of the fight shown in the movie is centralized in personal battle skills. Deadshot can perform an exceedingly accurate calculation on how to aim every target so he won’t miss a single head with just one shot. Harley Quinn and Katana possess an extreme agility in short-ranged combat. This is truly a battle we cannot find in any movies of Batman or Superman, or Batman vs. Superman.
Nevertheless, the soundtrack of the movie is hilariously fascinating, exactly placed and arranged on how I imagine it if I were a supervillain with backsound. The best of it is because Eminem’s “Without Me” is featured which brings back good memories of my last days in elementary school.
Despite the criticism, I think Suicide Squad has just made us really feel young and free, and intrigued our inner villain. With both good points and bad points the movie gets, I guess DC really lives up to the dark and twisted stories both in fiction and real life.
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