Monday, August 8, 2016

Where Suicide Squad Went Wrong

Warner Bros. latest entry the the DC Cinematic Universe is out and its evident that the studio still hasn't learned how to make a superhero film. 
Official poster

The entry was hailed as DC's equivalent of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy in that it would be a fun, offbeat, albeit slightly darker, story in a universe of gods and monsters. The problem is that the writers failed to develop any sense of agency in its characters and simply threw them into a blender to make a very bad tasting super-villain smoothie. Like one of those avocado vegan ones that no one likes. Here are the mistakes that knocked the film off course.