I’ve enjoyed many, many superhero movies and I’m sure I’ll delight in a few more, but some of them are becoming a bit ridiculous and this is one of them. Following the original “Suicide Squad” (2016) and the spin-off “Birds Of Prey” (2020), now we have a kind of reboot of the first movie with another eclectic list of tough-guy characters, over-the top-violence, fouled-mouthed tirades and a thumping soundtrack (I saw it in IMAX). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As with the first two films, the best in the team is Harley Quinn played by the wonderful Margot Robbie. The characters portrayed by Idris Elba and John Cena have a certain charisma, but other characters – notably Polka-Dot Man who sees his detested mother in the faces of all his enemies and T.D.K. who has detachable limbs – are just plain silly. Worst of all is the main opponent, a giant starfish that has the ability to spit out smaller starfish which cling to the faces of people like the face-hugger in “Alien”. This is the least evil-looking villain since the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the 1984 version of “Ghostbusters”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Writer and director James Gunn of “Guardians Of The Galaxy” fame clearly had a lot of fun with this blood-spurting, body-ripping, head-exploding orgy of violence and mayhem and some of it is entertaining and funny, but overall this is a limp addition to the often-sparkling superhero genre.\u00a0
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