If there was ONE movie I was looking forward to in 2021...it was THIS one. I was hoping that this movie would be different than its predecessor.....and I WASN'T disappointed! Talk about a WILD RIDE for nearly 2 hours...this delivered in that wonderful action-packed, popcorn style movie that gave us a little bit of everything---especially the gore and laughs. James Gunn threw the rulebook out the window when he got into the director's chair for The Suicide Squad, and gave us a movie that was just pure damn fun to watch. Gunn spared NO EXPENSE on this movie.
He didn't waste any time, either, as he quickly had Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) assemble a team for a mission in Corto Maltese to shut down the Nazi-era lab there called Jotunheim and something called "Project: Starfish". The team is split in two units, one led by Colonel Rick Flag (Joel Kinneman), and consisting of himself, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Weasel (Sean Gunn), Savant (Michael Rooker), TDK (Nathan Fillion), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), Javelin (Flula Borg), Blackguard (Pete Davidson), and Mongal (Mayling Ng), who land on the beach side of the island, and the other team, which Waller recruited Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Peacemaker (John Cena), Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), and King Shark (Sylvester Stallone). Weasel hits the water and appears to drown when the teams drop from the plane, and Harley drags him to the beach. Blackguard then pops out in front of the dictator's army awaiting them in the wings, saying that he brought everyone here as promised, thus revealing that he sold the team out. But, instead of him getting payment, he gets his face blown off. The team is under gunfire, as Flag says that the team is taking gunfire. Savant is witnessing the team getting laid to waste, as Boomerang gets blown to smithereens due to Mongal's overeagerness to take down the chopper that's firing on the team. Flag is wanting the team to fall back, but Harley moves forward to save Javelin, who's taken gunfire, and is fatally wounded. TDK finally separates his arms, and The Detatchable Kid starts using his arms to hit the soldiers. But he ends up getting cut down because they shoot his arms. Harley makes it to Javelin, who gives her his Javelin, and tells her she'll know when to use it. She wants to know when, but he dies. Mongal brings the chopper down, but the explosion causes her to catch on fire, thus she incinerates herself. Flag ends up getting captured, as does Harley. Savant...having witnessed the massacre in front of him, he decides he's gonna make a break for it....forgetting the ONE rule Waller makes when she makes the deal with the Belle Reve inmates: if you run, she'll detonate the bomb implanted in their heads. Waller then presses the detonator on her case box, and Savant is killed when his head explodes.
On the other side, the 2nd unit lands on the jungle side, as Peacemaker, Bloodsport, Polka-Dot Man, Ratcatcher, and King Shark arrive, and Waller had used Flag's team as a distraction while Bloodsport---who only took the job to keep his daughter from prison for robbery---leads his team into the jungle to make their way to Jotunheim. Along the way, we learn that Peacemaker is willing to sacrifice anything and everyone for peace, Ratcatcher sleeps a lot, Polka-Dot Man was experimented on by his mother, and King Shark...well, has no friends and is constantly hungry. Oh, and Bloodsport's got a fear of rats. Bloodsport's team makes their way through the jungle, as they bicker and argue along the way. They see an encampment, and they proceed to slaughter the soldiers there. They then find out that Flag is there, having been saved by the revolutionary army leader, Sol Soria (Alex Braga). Turns out, they team killed all her troops at the camp. While the team has found Flag, Harley has been taken in by the Corto Maltese government, and the dictator takes a shine to her. She then finds out that they plan on using Project: Starfish to attack other nations, and that means killing kids. Harley kills him, and is then captured by the General of the Army, and tortured.
The team makes their way into the city in order to grab their target to get into Jotunheim: The Thinker, who's in charge of Project: Starfish. They meet up with him in a club, but the army arrives, and things get out of hand. The team makes their way with The Thinker out of the club, and before they make their final journey to Jotunheim, they have to rescue Harley. They go to enact their plan, but Harley has managed to escape on her own, having killed her torturers, and slaughtered the guards. She ends up meeting with up with the rest of the team, and they then infiltrate Jotunheim, where they split up and plant bombs throughout the building, intending on blowing it up. Peacemaker, Flag, Ratcatcher, and The Thinker make their way into the lab, where he reveals that the project was spearheaded by the U.S. Government, who funneled millions of dollars into the project, and used test subjects from the island for their experiments. Flag is enraged when he finds out he's been had, and plans on leaking the data, but Peacemaker, who'd been put onto the team by Waller to destroy the data to cover the government's involvement. He and Flag fight, and he ends up killing Flag. Ratcatcher witnesses this, and she makes off with the drive, as Peacemaker gives chase. The building is collapsing, as Starro---the alien being that's been trapped in Jotunheim the past 30 years, is breaking loose, and kills the Thinker in the process. The bombs the team planted go off, and the building begins collapse. Harley, Bloodsport, and Polka-Dot Man are i an office when Polka-Dot accidently sets off the rest of the explosions. The building continues to collapse, taking King Shark down with it, but he manages to survive, thanks to the aquarium of water breaking his fall. Bloodsport manages to fall, but stay on slabs of concrete, as he manages to fall down to the level where Peacemaker had caught up to Ratcatcher, and planned on killing her to secure the data. Bloodsport and Peacemaker fire at each other, but Bloodsport's smaller bullet pierces Peacemaker's larger bullet, and hits Peacemaker, seemingly killing him.
Starro finally escapes, and shoots out several offspring that attach themselves to the army below, as the team fights off getting attacked by them. As Starro communicates through his new minions, he proclaims this land as his. Waller says that it's time for them to leave, as they have the data, and that's all they were there for. Starro can destroy the island all he wants, because the US has no further involvement with Corto Maltese, and she says it'll be considered a good thing. Bloodsport and the team decide to stick around to stop Starro, and this enrages Waller, as she plans on killing the remaining members of the team, but one of the members of her own staff knocks her out. They then take over the mission, and aid the team in trying to take down Starro. King Shark is sent to attack by Bloodsport, who says he's food, while he orders Polka-Dot Man to attack him, as he tells him that's his mother. Polka-Dot Man causes damage to Starro, but he ends up getting killed in the process by one of Starro's tentacles. Starro continues to resist, but Ratcatcher calls upon all the rats in the city, as they overrun the streets, running over a fear struck Bloodsport in the process. Meanwhile, Harley had positioned herself atop a building, and finally knew what to use the javelin for---and she leaps out at Starro, and impales him right in the eye, and falls into the iris of the beast. Meanwhile, the rats have crawled their way up Starro's body and into the opening of the eye, and start attacking the nerves in the eye, thus causing fatal damage to the beast. Starro collapses, and is defeated, as the rats...especially Sebastian---Ratcatcher's pet---and Harley make their way out of Starro. Bloodsport then downloads the data files onto a secret and private server, and if she puts his kid in prison, and if he crosses her, than what's on the data files becomes public knowledge. She agrees, and the team takes off for home, having accomplished their mission. Sebastain snuggles up to Bloodsport, who seems like he's about to overcome his fear of rats as the movie ends.
In the extra credits scenes, we see that Weasel had not drowned, but manages to wake up, and then wanders into the jungle. Then, we switch to a hospital, where two of Waller's subordinates talk to the doctor, and they find that Peacemaker has been rescued from Corto Maltese, recovering from his injuries.
From start to finish, the movie NEVER let up on the humor, the character interaction, and the plot kept moving at a nice pace---quicky, but steady. It never lost focus of what it was, and it was something that was reminiscent of a comic book. It didn't hide that it was a comic book movie, and wasn't going out of its way to shy away from the comic book tropes in its over-the-topness. It was fun, bloody, hilarious, and just an overall excellent movie. My ONE gripe was the fact that so many of the team got bumped off in the opening act of the film, but then again...this WOULDN'T be the Suicide Squad if we didn't have SOME casualties---and, admittedly, some of the way these guys died was just flat out FUNNY. Some...much more of a bummer. Flag was NOT someone I expected killed. I thought he, like Harley, would be the holdouts once again. And Waller...MAN, does Violet Davis know how to play a sadistic bitch. If ANY actress who's taken their crack at this character in the past thought they had her down....Davis blows them away. She OWNS this role. She is the one woman who GETS Amanda Waller and what she's all about. Overall, it's the Suicide Squad movie I wanted....and I got.
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