This movie has a terrible reputation, but after seeing Margot Robbie's amazing performance as Harley Quinn in two later films, I thought I'd check this out. And while it's not great, it proved to be a reasonably enjoyable movie to watch on an airplane.
The movie centers around anti-terrorist Amanda Waller's project of using psychotic super villains to fight terrorism. This idea proves to be just as terrible as you would expect, and most of the movie is Waller trying to clean up the mess she made.
While the movie has some good action sequences and excellent performances from Robbie, Will Smith, and Viola Davis, it is poorly constructed. The first part of the movie is a series of minisodes introducing the main super villains, which just means the actual movie doesn't get started until maybe a third of the way through. Lots of movies manage to integrate character introductions into the story itself, but this movie can't be bothered.
Throughout, characters make odd choices, action varies in quality, and everything is just kind of ... not quite satisfying.
Even Robbie's gleeful psycho feels a bit like a prototype that still needs some work - there are just moments that don't feel true to her character, although perhaps I'm influenced by her subsequent roles.
Anyway, there are parts of a good movie here, and even if those parts are greater than the whole, this movie can be genuinely entertaining in spurts and is worth watching if your options are limited because Norse Air doesn't offer very many movies.
The movie centers around anti-terrorist Amanda Waller's project of using psychotic super villains to fight terrorism. This idea proves to be just as terrible as you would expect, and most of the movie is Waller trying to clean up the mess she made.
While the movie has some good action sequences and excellent performances from Robbie, Will Smith, and Viola Davis, it is poorly constructed. The first part of the movie is a series of minisodes introducing the main super villains, which just means the actual movie doesn't get started until maybe a third of the way through. Lots of movies manage to integrate character introductions into the story itself, but this movie can't be bothered.
Throughout, characters make odd choices, action varies in quality, and everything is just kind of ... not quite satisfying.
Even Robbie's gleeful psycho feels a bit like a prototype that still needs some work - there are just moments that don't feel true to her character, although perhaps I'm influenced by her subsequent roles.
Anyway, there are parts of a good movie here, and even if those parts are greater than the whole, this movie can be genuinely entertaining in spurts and is worth watching if your options are limited because Norse Air doesn't offer very many movies.