LogFAQs > #956943596

I had a good time with The Squad - it was an enjoyable enough romp for what it was. Honestly, I wish it had gone further than it did. It wasn't out there enough for me, personally. I had a couple other minor hang-ups with how we seem to be presenting the Squad as a whole - Waller yelling, for example, really felt out-of-character. After all, this is a woman who has watched her family be gunned down one-by-one in pointless street crime. I think origins of her character really don't lean to her being callous about innocent lives or being quite so politically gung-ho. In Checkmate, she is certainly more protective of American interests, but even there she has global interests at heart. She certainly makes morally gray decisions, but I've always read her (in the context of the morality of the time of a comics' publication) as oddly heroic. Here, her behavior just rubbed me the wrong way.

I also think more Harley needed to be cut from the film. The arc should have been the arc of a javelin, with Harley along for the ride, honestly. That five-minute hold-up with her Corto Maltesan boyfriend just did zippo for me.

That said, I think this was definitely a step in the right direction for a Suicide Squad movie. Raunchy and irreverent and ultimately touching on a few interests themes that I think will be cool to explore in Peacemaker's series.

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