Suicide Squad: Bad is beautiful

Cast: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman

Rated: 6/10

The bad men and women are at the helm here and this film tells you how bad can be beautiful, how villainy can be the driving force behind heroics. Not because there is any transformation to goodness but because they are so delectably evil that you kind of get mesmerised by their overt badness of being.

Of course, once these super villains are taken out of suggestively torturous jails and packed off on a mission to kill a 6,000-year-old witch residing in the body of a groovy lady archaeologist, you know you are in for some fun — big, bad fun in a big, bad, impudent world.

Yes, there are Batman and Superman too, but the heroes are only in the background with killers on the romp. The CGIs are adequately placed as are the wry dialogues which get immersed in a whole lot of OTT guns and bullets action drama.

The most delightful of the evil lot is a psychiatrist-turned-lover girl of a dreadful mental asylum inmate. A product of a romance gone bad, very very bad Harley Quinn wears macro knickers, sports ponytails, blows into bubblegums and is an acrobatic girl with lots of make-up and attitude that is both baby-dollish and deadly at the same time. Played by the versatile Robbie Margot, she takes your heart as does Croc and Deadshot (Will Smith) who comes all guns blazing at you but with a daughter hang-up.

Together, Suicide Squad is an arresting film that keeps you engaged despite the ultimate dark, stark environment that it breeds. The gangsterism, the anarchy, the lunacy — it all takes you in an unreal grip. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 7 August, 2016