It takes a creative, fanciful mind to dream up a story about such a motley group of characters (all prisoners) charged by the U.S. Government with dismantling a Nazi-like prison and laboratory in a foreign country, Corto Maltese. Although The Suicide Squad does have drama, it’s also very funny. Amanda Waller as director of the Suicide squad and researcher […]
Peter (Schoenaerts) and Michael (Kinnaman) are certainly brothers by blood (and it could be brothers inblood), because not much else connects them. They are very different people with different values. We see them growing up in Philadelphia in families involved in gangs and crime. Peter is the logical one, trying desperately—all his life—to escape the violence surrounding him. Michael insists
The filmmakers really double down on “secrets”, the word in the title. In the story, secrets are nested in layers, and although I think it’s intended to increase the mystery, it simply became off-putting to me in the end. Noomi Rapace as Maja brings her ability to exploit a sense of intrigue as she has done so
Director David Ayer is known for his hard hitting R rated films. Whether capturing authentic LAPD portrayals with Jake Gyllenhaal in “End of Watch” or trekking through muddy WWII with Brad Pitt in Fury. Ayer enters an unfamiliar territory of mainstream cinema, PG-13 territory. “Suicide Squad” is an organized chaotic mess of superheroes, meta humans,
When a studio refuses to screen a film for critics, usually it’s a bad sign; It also makes that movie like forbidden fruit you just want to see even more. Child 44 certainly has its problems, the biggest Jonathan Price’s screenplay adaptation of Tom Rob Smith’s novel. A good screenwriter should be able to read
There is apparently no limit to Liam Neeson’s interest in violence and action flicks. Like a broken record, the 62-year-old once again cocks the gun and saves the day. As the films opens, Neeson’s character lays on the ground talking about regrets flashing through his mind. The biggest regret is watching a talented actor discard