 I'm just gonna hurt you, really, really. Hey, what's going on everybody and welcome to Just My Opinion Reviews. So now Warner Brothers, DC Entertainment and David Ayer decided to team up to deliver the next comic book feature, Suicide Squad. There's a lot of anticipation for this movie. How did I feel about it? Did I like it? Did I love it? Did it suck? Well, let's find out. My name is Brandon Keith-Avery and this is Just My Opinion. Now, as you already know, this is directed by David Ayer. He did Fury with Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf, the guy that did the Transformers movies. And I like that movie. I don't own it on Blu-ray or DVD, but I like it. And he also directed End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal and who else is in this? I forgot. Oh yeah, Michael Pena. I cannot believe. I didn't, I forgot his name, but anyway. And I really liked this movie, you know, hence why I bought it. So anyway, David Ayer wants to come and deliver the Suicide Squad, besides me knowing what the comic book is about. Cause if you look around, I do know comic books. I like comic books. I have the Batman Assaults on Arkham, Blu-ray, DVD, digital HD. And I've only seen this twice. And when I saw it, and this is what Suicide Squad is loosely based off of. And when I saw it the first time I was underwhelmed, I wasn't too impressed. It was okay. It wasn't one of the best out of the 20s, I think 27 or 28 DC movies that come at now. But since the trailer leaked last Comic Con in 2015, the average movie goers and a number of my friends have always been wanting to know, oh, what's this Suicide Squad, Brandon? What's that about? What's going on there? Can you tell me a little bit about it? And, you know, I watched it again with a friend and she liked it a lot. And I liked it a lot too. And it actually got me more excited for the movie. And just one more little tidbit. Here's the DC Encyclopedia here, just to let you know how much I am into all of this content. Now, Comic Con 2015, not this year, but last year when the trailer first dropped, well, it didn't drop some A-hole recorded in Hall H in San Diego and it leaked online. And of course, the studio didn't want it to, didn't want the mass population of the world to see a bad, low-wares quality. So they went ahead and released it to the public. And I loved it. I mean, and to be honest with you, out of all the trailers and the TV spots and the feature reds and the interviews and the posters and all that good stuff, that first trailer impressed me the most. I don't know why, but me, when a new trailer drops, if I love it, I can sit there and put it on a playlist and let trailers play back, you know, forward over and over and over again. And if I really like a certain trailer or movie, I'll watch it three, four, five times in a row trying to nitpick in and out, trying to nitpick here and there in and out, trying to just find any nugget or Easter egg or whatever, that's just what I do. And the first Suicide Squad trailer impressed me the most. And I say that because just, and then the coming trailers after that, I mean, they wasn't bad, but there was just nothing about them that made me say, oh my gosh, I cannot wait to see this movie. I even know with the All-Star cast with Jai Courtney and Joel Kinnerman and Adawale and Kanowe Agbaje and Will Smith and anybody else. I mean, you had this phenomenal cast and I just wasn't excited about it. I don't know if it was this right here to put a bad taste on my mouth and I don't think that will be it because we're so used to general public, it's just so used to seeing heroes going to go fight the bad guys, but you're never really seeing bad guys versus evil. And I remember last year, that's something that David Ayer or somebody from the studio, that was one of their main selling points. And it got me interested. Like I said that because the concept of bad guys teaming up a vendor star to go save the day. I mean, that's just an interesting concept in itself, let alone it being a comic book property. So that's one of the things that held me on, but the rest of the trailers to me, it just seemed like they were well cut trailers with a nice soundtrack in the background. The trailers didn't seem like a form of art to me. And trailers are many movies, they're a form of art in my opinion. And I just wasn't getting that from the last few Suicide Squad trailers and TV spots. So going into this movie, my expectations were mediocre. I wasn't like, oh my gosh, Suicide Squad. I don't wanna see this. And it wasn't like Civil War or Avengers. Like, oh my God, I can't wait. I'm counting down the days and the hours when I'm dancing to the theater. I was mediocre. And I will say that I'm glad that I had those expectations, I think, that had to do with the level of enjoyment that I did have in the film. And let's just go ahead and get into that. I've been talking for long enough already about the characters. My favorite character is Dead Shite, Frank Lawden, played by Will Smith. Now, he had the most depth in the movie. He had the most, you know, the best backstory. He had the best lines, the best comedy. He had most of the screen time, which is expected. This is Will Smith. You know, movies don't sell tickets anymore for the most part because of the movie star or movie actor or actress is more of the property. But Will Smith, you know, can bring in a lot of dollars. You know, there's my mom and my brother were saying that the only reason they're slightly interested in this movie is because of Will Smith alone. But he is the best part of the movie by far. In my opinion, he kicked a lot of ass. He was funny. Like I said, my only complaint with his character is I don't really feel like it was Dead Shite or Frank Lawden. I feel like this was Will Smith. Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing because Will Smith is Will Smith. He's great. He has charisma coming out of the wazoo everywhere. I mean, the guy is just a likable guy on screen. There's nothing you can say negative about him. If you can put him, let me know in the comments. I challenge you, but give me a thumbs up as well. But he was the best. I liked him. Like I said, he had backstory. My second favorite has to be somewhat of a tie between The Joker and Harley Quinn played by Jered Leto and Margot Robbie. They're both crazy as hell. We all know this. But see, to me, even though I have all this DC stuff, I'm not a DC expert just tipping over to Margot. I know more about Margot than I do DC. But anyway, to me, they're both just psychotic raving lunatics. Just it doesn't make any sense. But to me, there's still two types of crazy. When Harley Quinn, you know, Mr. J and all of that, to me, she's crazy, but she doesn't know she's crazy. I always thought of Joker as crazy, but he knows he's crazy, but doesn't care that he knows he's crazy. I mean, he's a comic book character. He knows he's a comic book character. And the reason why I say that is and bring it up in this movie and the two prominent characters, everybody wanted to see him. This isn't Joker's movie. And that's fine. He did have enough screen time. And I kind of want to say that he may have had slightly too much screen time. But you know, that's no complaint there. But Harley Quinn, Margot Robbie, she did a great job. They kind of gave some backstory to how her character came to be. I wasn't too in love with it, because to be honest with you, it did not make that much sense. I kind of had to write in the stuff that didn't make sense from my own knowledge. Oh, actually, I'm sorry. And Harley Quinn is not even a comic book character. So don't rip me up in the comments. She's not a comic book character. She was made up in the animated cartoon. And correct me if I'm wrong if I said that. But anyway, in this movie, she was great until a point at the end where she was just humanized a little too much for me. She just didn't turn. It was just one scene to where the Harley Quinn just snapped off and she was actually a person or a human or the character before she went bat-aid crazy or whatever. And I did not like that. But other than that, my next favorite character I want to say is Killer Croc, played by Adawale and Kanoe Agbaje. I believe is the way you pronounce his name. And the only thing I didn't like about his character is that should have had him talk a lot more. Because when he talked, I don't want to say it was scary, but it was menacing. It was threatening. I didn't want to make this guy mad because I felt he would just eat my face off with one little chew or whatever. And that was cool. There wasn't too much of his role that came after that. I also did like, who else did I like? It wasn't that character. I don't want to name that yet. It wasn't that character. Oh, Diablo, played by, what's the guy's name? Jay Hernandez. And I don't know too much about Diablo. I don't know too much about Jay Hernandez. I liked his character. I liked the person that he was, but I did not like what he did. He just wasn't using his fire Diablo powers too much. I mean, there were times where they had a good plot point to why he wouldn't do it and it made sense somewhat. But if you're, I mean, I don't want to spoil it for you here, but if you, I don't know. I mean, the character had nothing, I don't want to say he had nothing to lose because at one time he had nothing to lose, but at another time he felt like he was fighting for everyone in the world. Like, oh, I love my friends and I want to save my friends. So, I mean, that's one complaint there about the stuff that he did, but who he was as a man, as a person, as a character, I liked that. I mean, he made some mistakes in the past. He owned that shit. And the reason why I said it just like that, you have to see the movie, you don't know why I said it like that. But I liked his character, but I mean, they could have did more with what he was actually supposed to do with his abilities. I mean, when people are trying to kill you, I want you to be blasted and shut out of them with your fire powers. That just makes sense to me. All the other characters, I'm not saying that I didn't hate them. Like, I'm not saying that I did not hate them. I'm not saying that I hated them, but I wasn't in love with them. Captain Boomerang played by Jai Courtney. That was just okay. Katana. You know, there was nothing to her character at all, other than she had a soul capturing Katana sword. Joel Kinnaman is Rick Flag. You know, he was okay. And Cara Delevingne as the Enchantress. Yeah, that was probably the worst part of this movie. I mean, that I did not like it at all. It was just too much. I mean, this is the third DCCU movie in their cinematic universe, or however you want to call it. Yeah, Man of Steel, BVS, and Suicide Squad. And a guy that likes comics, as you see, they went too far in the realm of comic book lore, even for me. So I can imagine an average moviegoer that just wants to see a few famous stars popping in the movie, or like, what the hell am I watching? Because all that Enchantress stuff was dumb, and it just absolutely made no sense to me. And that was just, I was going to say, at the end of the movie, well, the part that pissed me off the most was at the end of the movie. The stuff that came proud of that, what they were showing Enchantress's powers. That was actually cool, because I don't know anything about her character. I mean, I could look it up real quick and read to you guys. Hey, if you're watching this, you like comic book stuff, so you wouldn't care if it takes me too long to get Enchantadora. That's not Enchantress. What are her powers? Could it animate objects all to her own appearance and levitate mystic tricks and concealed in her hat Enchantress? Okay, that's not what they did in the movie. So let's not, let's ignore that. But in the movie, as far as her powers are concerned, it was kind of cool, but it was kind of confusing, but I want to touch on that later. But one of the biggest scenes of this movie to me, and I'll go ahead and say this guys, my expectations were mediocre, but Suicide Squad, I honestly just wasn't impressed. It wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't a great movie either. And the main reason why is the tone of the film. And it wasted time too. Because towards the beginning of the film, it appears that it's not going to waste any time and you're just hitting the ground running and you're getting to know the Suicide Squad. And they do this roll call. And the first character is with Frank Lawden, Deadshot, Will Smith. And I loved it. That was cool. But then they started going down every single character. And it was just like forced exposition. I'm like, okay, I mean, this is, and this, this roll call is being told over a dinner table. And I mean, they just should have had a movie slate or whatever. One of these things is said, okay, exposition scene snap or whatever, because the scene, one of the scenes that's in the trailer, it was so blatantly obvious that it was just set up to explain all the characters in the Suicide Squad. Now, you're, everybody's not like me. Everybody's not going to understand the majority of all the characters. And they may want some introduction. That's cool. That's fine. But there's a right way to do it and the wrong way to do it. And I say that this movie did it the wrong ways because right after they gave us a roll call of the first 60% of the characters, the next exact scene after that was pretty much the same exact thing, but from a different perspective and a different audience. So I'm sitting there initially watching it like, okay, this deadshot roll call is cool. You know, they show who he is or some lines of dialogue, then some graphics pop up showing who he is, what his weapons are and all that good stuff. And then you get a little action scene or whatever. That's cool. But as I'm watching the rest of the characters, I'm getting bored. I'm like, guys, there is, you know, I mean, I'm just sitting there watching it like, why can't they just have the characters in a group together? They're all crazy. They all have different personalities and weird social issues. So the conversation is going to be awkward anyway and just have them talk to each other to learn what each other's abilities are. And while the characters are teaching each other, it's also teaching the audience and also not wasting time. You're knocking out two or three birds with one stone instead of just, you know, force exposition and scenes that repeat itself over and over and over from the next scene. And, you know, at that point in time, I was just like, man, I hope this movie is good. And so far, I'm just kind of like, okay, you know, when are we going to get some good action? But then we get to the part where the whole team is coming together, the Suicide Squad. And, you know, once again, I'm disappointed with the tone. I spoke on the tone and let me actually address that. The reason why the tone is so bad for me is because all the random soundtracks that they came, they just threw in the movie over the past 30 years at one point, we were getting Eminem, then he's back, back again, and he's back, back. And then another scene that like five minutes later, we're getting Spirit in the Sky or Rockin' in the Sky. And then before that, we're getting some song that came out in the 80s. And it's just like this, just, it's just random popular music of all these different genres. And it has nothing to do with superhero movies or killing people or bad guys or kicking ass. There's nothing epic about it. I mean, every time the characters in the movie are getting ready to do something cool, they have to throw in this wack ass song and just like, what are we doing? I'm not pumped up. I'm not excited. I'm not, I don't, you know, I'm not curious to see what's going on with the bad guys coming on. I don't want to hear Eminem. I don't want to Rockin' in the Sky or whatever the song is. I'm just sitting there like, man, this is really disappointing and this is really letting me down. But everything is not bad. The movie is funny. The character, I did name some characters that I liked towards earlier in the movie, but it's just as soon as things are getting good. All right, we're getting there, a wack ass song. And then as soon as things get good, a wack ass song. And just something stupid that doesn't make sense with the plot. And then when we get some backstory to give you more character development, something else stupid happens. And it's just like, okay, I'm not liking this at all. And then I'm just so disappointed for a movie that I wasn't even had high expectations for. And the whole gist of the Suicide Squad is, in my opinion, the way I understand it. Let's say the crooked government does something that they're not supposed to do. And they can't go public about it. And hey, Superman, come save us or whoever. Because Superman, if he was smart or whatever, would be like, man, what the hell is you doing? This for the first place. Why are you trying to genetically mutate rabbits and elephants? I'm being silly, but it's like, okay, let's create a task force of people that if we mess up, they can come clean it up under the rug. And if they get caught, I understand that. But as far as the story and the plot within this movie and how they brought that together, it was somewhat nonexistent. I mean, just randomly up. We need to put a superhero team together. So let's just get all the bad guys. I mean, like, okay, you know, if that is your premise of doing it, the way they sold it in the movie didn't really give a great example of why you needed certain characters to fill this Suicide Squad. I mean, Harley Quinn, she just goes around and swings the bat. But for some reason, they're able to make her fight monsters in this. You know, and I can go down the line, but I really just don't want to. Because I don't care anymore. But just getting towards the end of this movie is just when the shit hit the fan and everything just started going downhill for me. That was more good than bad, because I'm just sitting there like, I mean, you saw the trailers where Will Smith is like, all right, we hit it over to the circley fire ring thing in the sky or whatever. Pretty obvious that that's the end of the movie. But as I'm watching, I'm just like, okay, why, okay. You know, why are the good guys not doing this? Can they bomb this area? Can they just give 50,000 jets and heli, not helicarriers, but Apache helicopters and just light this thing up? I mean, why are you sending in people on hand and feet when there are no hostages that you know of that the audience knows of? I mean, it's just things that are not making sense. And then especially with this enchanted thing and she's trying to do, I mean, I think at one point she was actually talking like this, like, yeah, what's going on? And you know, you want to come join me and my team? I mean, it's just so many inconsistencies with the final battle. I mean, do you remember last year that suck face movie by 20th Century Fox a new Fantastic Four movie? One of the dumbest things in that movie was when Dr. Doom was walking me on the hallway and looking at people and their heads was exploding. I mean, that's a cool effect. It was badass. Now that was one of the good things in that movie. But when he went to, what was that dimension? Dimension X or dimension zero or something like that, he decided not to use his powers anymore. He wanted to do feisty cuffs with the Fantastic Four. I mean, that's just freaking stupid. I don't understand that. There was something exactly like that in this movie. Here we have the bad guy that's able to just throw lightning bolts all over the planet. I mean, let me back up. I mean, it just makes no sense. I'm getting so angry the more that I think about it and my score is actually going even further down than I initiated to give this movie. But early in the movie Enchantress is like, you know, I'm getting more powerful. Tell me how to defeat your enemy or your wars or your machines. But then later on, she just decides to throw a billion Gajillion lightning bolts in the sky, blowing up all types of shit all over the earth. And then right after that, decides to have feisty cuffs with people right in front of you. I don't understand that. And if you feel that I spoiled the movie for you right there, I do apologize for not giving you a spoiler warning. It's not really a spoiler warning. I mean, there's some people that, you know, you know what, Enchantress, I mean, I'm not ruining anything for you. And just doing that time, there were just so many, it was just, it was, it got to the point, it was childish to where, when the world is at stake or cities at stake, I want to see everybody, whether you're good on the good side, the bad side, the evil side. I want to see everybody that has some type of ability, even if it's shooting a gun or swinging a bat or a sword, to be in the fight, to be engaged. Don't just sit there. How would you feel if, if you try to save the day and I'm on the sideline? Come on, you get them, get them, get them. No, get your ass in here and fight too. And that's just some of the characters we're doing. Oh, it's my turn now. Blast. And I'm just like, man, what is going on? And like, this is just, this is just not good. But I mean, I didn't walk out the movie angry. I still walked out slightly entertained, but the movie just could have been so much better. And the plot just didn't make any sense. I'm just like, why don't you do this? Why don't you do that? Why don't you do this? Why don't you do that? You know, it was just too many holes for me that wasn't answered or explained and, you know, but I will say that the mid credit scene was quite nice. It does give me a little bit excited for what's to come. And man, I want to spoil it for you so bad right now, but I'm not going to do that because there is something that they did pay a nice tribute to and was faithful to the source material that gets me excited. And I just was, I didn't stay all the way at the end of the credits. I just didn't feel like it. But since Comic-Con just came out weekend before last and we got the Wonder Woman trailer, the Justice League trailer and all that, that was, I wasn't really feeling the Justice League. I love the hell out there, Wonder Woman trailer. That was badass, but the Justice League trailer was just okay to me. And I would just kind of stand on myself. Excuse me. Why are they going this direction? As far as the plot, not the tone, but as far as the plot, just from some of the things a certain character was saying in the story. And I'll just say that this mid-credit scene in the Suicide Squad makes that Justice League trailer make sense a lot more. Now guys, if I had to rate the Suicide Squad out of a one out of 10, man, what do I want to give this thing? I'm going to give the Suicide Squad a 4.5 out of 10. Yes, a 4.5 out of 10. Sorry if that disappointed you guys, but that's just my opinion. So have you seen the Suicide Squad? Do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you liked this video, go ahead and give me the thumbs up. And if you didn't like the video, that's fine. Just leave me a comment below why. And still give me the thumbs up. Since you're watching this video on YouTube, go ahead and subscribe to the YouTube channel so you become one of my subscribers and get all the content that I have to provide in the past and in the future. Look at the bottom of your screen there. 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