Continuity mistake: While the Squad is patrolling the city, the ends of Harley's bunches keep changing in style; they are straight when she's changing at the prison and on the helicopter with the Squad, really curled after Rick kills someone, then jump between straight and slightly curled for the rest of the film, with the exception of the end scene where she hasn't got her hair in bunches anymore, but a different hairstyle.
Suicide Squad (2016)
3 reviews
Directed by: David Ayer
Starring: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Scott Eastwood, Cara Delevingne
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This movie is just a complete mess. The premise is rather idiotic, in which a government agent assembles a response team to handle potential Superman-level threats. The problem being the team she assembles would have zero chance at stopping Superman or any threat similar to his power level. That is unless you consider a girl with a baseball bat, a guy that is good at climbing buildings, a guy who can skillfully throw boomerangs, and a man with extremely scaly skin as people that can give Superman a run for his money.
The film's dialogue is rather clunky, with the introduction of the character Katana being a pretty egregious example.
The actions scenes are rather unremarkable, and Jared Leto's Joker is pretty much useless and wasted.
Suicide Squad is essentially a spin on classic film The Dirty Dozen with DC villains like Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, and Deadshot being forced to work together to defeat a dangerous supernatural threat for a shadowy government agency or die. Despite such high stakes, the "expendable" villains strain at their leashes and test the patience of their keepers, namely Amanda Waller who's running the show, Colonel Rick Flag who acts as her enforcer and eyes on the ground, and a tormented female super-heroine named Katana, who serves to protect Flag and keep the mission intact. While there are some interesting concepts, the movie overall suffers from delegating the Joker to nearly a supporting role, barely developing any of the characters until a minor third act moment, a climax more appropriate for The Mummy or Ghostbusters than a DC film feature, and generally not utilizing the strengths of that cast of characters better. Margot Robbie pretty handily steals the show as Harley Quinn and, while the others had potential, they never really get a fair chance to reach their potentials onscreen. Want to watch villains grumble, threaten, be threatened and then face a glimpse of their backstories before a battle against a CGI-enhanced Cara Delevingne as the Enchantress?! This is the movie for you! It just should have been better, and more fun.
8.5/10.It's a bit of a mess sure but I've seen worse. Ghostbusters 2016 anyone?Here they're trying to be faithful to the source material with a well rounded cast who match each other pretty good.I would say the best two here are Margot Robbie and Will Smith in one of the few good movies he's had outside of Men In Black and Independence Day.The real star is Margot Robbie who brings Harley Quinn to life perfectly.If anything positive should be said here it's that Margot Robbie proves herself as a very good and capable actress with the right material.Sure it's not on The Avengers level but I still prefer Suicide Squad to The Avengers.
More mistakes in Suicide Squad
The Joker: Would you die for me?
Harley Quinn: Yes.
The Joker: No, no, no. That's too easy... Would you live for me?
Trivia: Amanda Waller operates out of the "John F. Ostrander Federal Building." John Ostrander is the comic book writer who reinvented the Suicide Squad using the concept of a supervillain team forced to do the government's bidding. The Suicide Squad title was originally a World War II comic, akin to the Dirty Dozen.
Question: In the prison scene where they laid out the weapons, why was Deadshot shooting the rifle at an angle when he was "showing off" to Flag and Waller?
Answer: The benefits to having the back-up iron sights is if the battery in your red dot go out during a fire fight. There are several gun accessory manufacturers that make angled iron sights. The are used as a backup just in case. Yes he is showing off, and yes those sights exist.
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Answer: Exactly as you said, to show off. He wants them to see he can fire just as accurately at an angle.
lionhead
I am not a gun expert and attempts to search this to verify my point have failed. However, it seems to me that he rotates the rifle to use the secondary sight. While this may be showing off, I assumed this secondary sight was intended to be used for a different range of target, or made a specific type of target easier. When he rotates the gun, it seems he is switching targets. Research has shown that the gun does have 2 sights (DDM4 MK18).
The DDM4 MK18 Deadshot is using has a single red dot sight, nothing "secondary." A gun has only 1 sight, perhaps also a scope, but nothing on the side that requires the gun to be used at an angle. Firing a gun at an angle seriously reduces the accuracy. If there is something attached on the side it's either a flashlight or a laser.
lionhead
If you re-watch the scene, there are very obvious iron sights that he is using that are accessible by tilting the gun sideways. Holding it normal gets you the scope, sideways gets you the iron sights. Not sure what the benefits would be but there are absolutely 2 types of sights on the gun he is using.
oldbaldyone